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Pre Columbian Basalt Sculpture of a Homosexual Copulating Couple (1000-1500 CE) - Costa Rica
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They were just good friends.
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Nah it's chiropractics
"fertility cult"
spoiler
they say that whenever they find dildos on a dig
Y'all try to make everything gay. They're obviously just close neighbors.
Damn I thought when I clicked it'd be a bit more ambiguous but that is very clear and unimpeachable evidence lol
Tbh I can't believe it's not common sense that homosexuality has been a thing across all of human existence (and many other species). I mean why the hell would a natural predisposition have suddenly popped out of nowhere in the modern era? It's like needing hard evidence that left-handed cavemen existed, like duh. Do people also need ancient paintings to prove grass was still green back in 6000 BC?
People been gay for a very long time.
and then he said to me, "put it in Maya butt"
Hell yeah
Even got that good prostate angle
The wildest part is how long the models were standing there like that while the artist was chipping away at a block of basalt
How were they cleaning they bootyhole out
By putting the dish brush attachment on a dick.
history is dominated by people washing their asses. the fear of washing one's ass is very much geographically linked to Europe and its colonial projects.
living outside that area for any decent length of time makes one realize how the whites are basically a bunch of shit smearing animals.
actually a lot of the less "civilized" cultures like the balts finns and Norse washed their asses religiously, however the places in Europe touched by the Romans had very poor hygiene standards
washed their asses religiously
Just as God told them. Ass God.
I mean, water and soap? Isn't that how people do it now?
They were using soap up they bootyholes? That sounds uncomfortable
Idk, I've never had that kind of sex but I've always used a bidet after pooping, including soap, and that feels pretty normal to me
romans used a lot of vegetable oils like olive oil, probably something similar
They were using olive oil to remove dookie? I am being facetious but i am curious fr
If you consume a lot it's an easy way to do an enema, but it also works as lube. Both ends treatment
Fibre-rich diet
Something that I always wonder about these sorts of things. Was it supposed to be amusing, or erotic? This one is so detailed I lean pretty heavily toward the idea that it's porn, but I could easily see it being "haha look at this funny statue, it's got dicks on it"
You tell your friends that you just have it because you think it's funny but it really is porn.
I feel like it's pretty culturally specific to even think of this as being funny in the first place, or as having the potential to be funny. I doubt whether many ancient cultures thought there was anything funny about genitals, or asses, or nudity, etc.
Idk, I know for sure that the ancient Romans thought dicks were funny
i think this commemorates the moment when these two famous heroes invented homosexuality. just look at the smug joy on their faces. they know they're gonna be the giants on whose shoulders future generations stand.
Maybe it was educational? Like, an example of the sorta position you gotta get into to fuck thing.
I thought about that possibility too! That would be another good reason for it to be so detailed.
Not that there's anything wrong with that..