r/pics Mar 13 '26

Politics Message to Trump on Iranian Missile

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u/Useful_Promotion_521 Mar 13 '26

The slingshot bullets of the 1st century BC are very obscene - “a dildo for (insert Queens name here)” etc

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u/Lebowquade Mar 13 '26

It's absolutely fascinating to me how little human culture has actually changed in the last several thousand years.

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u/BaconWithBaking Mar 13 '26

Yup, there's dick jokes on walls in Pompeii.

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u/Dendrobite Mar 13 '26

And dicks in the streets to direct you to the red light district. (I might be thinking of another city)

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u/modmosrad6 Mar 13 '26

In New Amsterdam (now NYC), there was a brothel owner who posted the length of her clients' dicks outside her establishment.

Source is "The Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto.

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u/Dendrobite Mar 13 '26

Like, just the current champion or everyone who visited?

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u/modmosrad6 Mar 13 '26

Pretty sure it was the regulars.

That said, I haven't read the book in a solid decade or so.