🎧 Pestle or Sex Toy? The Roman 'Dildo'
🎧 Betwixt the Sheets • 39m
You may have seen in the news that archaeologists have been reassessing a phallic object from Vindolanda Roman Fort in the north of Britain.
How does the saying go ... "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." Do you think this counts for d*cks too?
Today, Kate is talking to Rob Collins to find out how we can prove what something was actually used for.
*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Joseph Knight
Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.
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