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Dildo
:''For the Canadian town, see Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador.''
A dildo is a penis-shaped device intended for bodily interaction during masturbation or sexual intercourse.
Not all phallic objects are necessarily dildos. Phallic (i.e. penis-shaped) objects have been both worshipped (see lingam) and used as ''objets d'art'' throughout history, but dictionary definitions of 'dildo' require some physical, i.e. bodily, context.
History
Dildos have been used by humans for a very long time. Exactly how long is uncertain, but there is evidence of their use throughout the past 2000 years at least. It has been suggested that stone phallic batons found in the Gorge d'Enfer may have been used as Paleolithic dildos, although these artifacts are more often interpreted as spear-straighteners. A beautiful jade phallus, which may very well have been used as a dildo, and is reckoned by curators to be about 4000 years old, is currently on display in the Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum near Shanghai.
While there are no records of dildo use during the Ancient Mesopotamian or Egyptian civilizations, it is likely that the various Western phallic cults throughout history descend from the Egyptian ceremonies surrounding the worship of Isis and Osiris. In Egyptian myth, Set killed Osiris and scattered his body parts. Isis tried to reunite his body, but since his penis had been consumed in the River Nile, he used magic to fashion a new one. Dildos are also mentioned, figuratively, in the Bible (see Ezekiel 16:17).
Stone dildos have been recovered during archaeological digs. Dildos in one form or another have likely been present in society throughout history.
What is a dildo?
Various authors who have written about sex have their own ideas about exactly what is and is not a dildo. There is general agreement that a nonvibrating device, resembling a penis in shape, size, and overall appearance, is a dildo. Some authorities include vibrating devices.
Dildo
Are dildos necessarily intended for insertion? Would a penis-shaped fertility statuette or icon intended for worship, as in aboriginal tribes in Africa, be considered a dildo, or is the term exculsively reserved for a penis-shaped item intended for use? --zandperl 01:29, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Intended for insertion?
Dildos are not necessarily insertables, contrary to several modern definitions, although I would argue that the term should indeed be reserved for those items intended for a sexual use, as distinct from the more generic 'phallus'.
Phallic (i.e. penis-shaped) objects have been both worshipped and used as objects d'arts throughout history, but I think a commonsense interpretation of 'dildo' requires some physical, i.e. bodily, context. Therefore, I guess it's OK, if a little 'clunky', to say that a dildo is 'intended for bodily interaction', as the current definition proposes.
Of course, phallic worship has occasionally gone beyond veneration of the lingam by decoration with flowers, annointing with oils, etc, and extended to full-blown orgiastic acts including 'defloweration' of virgins.
:''All'' the dictionary definitions I can find suggest that dildos are intended for, and used for, insertion. This suggests that they should be designed for that purpose. I think you are correct in using "phallus" in the sentence above; as "phallus" can either mean a real penis, or an object shaped like one. -- Karada 12:24, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Point taken, but...
If a man has a penis but does not insert it anywhere, it is still a penis. If a woman wears an artificial penis to disguise herself as a man, as did several European women during the eighteenth-century in order to become soldiers, but does not insert it anywhere, is it a dildo? And is it a dildo in the same way as when a woman nowadays straps on a dildo to have sex with another woman or man? Do we need to distinguish between phallus, prosthesis, dildo, artifical penis, etc?
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Dildo Island
Dildo Island, Newfoundland is the largest of three islands located at the entrance to Dildo Arm in the bottom of Trinity Bay, off the coast of the neighboring town Dildo.
An archaeological excavation in 1995 discovered Dorset Eskimo artifacts radiocarbon dated to between AD 150 and AD 750. It is believed that these people camped on Dildo Island for the purpose of seal hunting. From 1996 to 1999, archaeologist Silve Leblanc uncovered two Dorset houses and over 5500 artifacts from the same period.
In 2001 excavations were begun on a Recent Indian site radiocarbon dated to between AD 720 and AD 960. Evidence of a camp was found with the remnants of a wigwam and hearth. Almost all of the tools were made from purple and blue rhyolites that came from a source in Bonavista Bay roughly 90 miles to the north.
John Guy's journal of 1612 suggested evidence of a Beothuk Indian camp on Dildo Island. An English fort was established in the early 1700's to defend the south side of Trinity Bay from the French during Queen Anne's War.
Newfoundland's first cod hatchery was constructed in 1889 by a Norwegian, Adolph Nielsonto, improve the cod stocks of Trinity Bay.
List of interesting or unusual place names
http://www.baccalieutourism.com/dorsetsite.htm
Citizen Dildo
A coined term used in Vanilla Sky movie of Tom Cruise to mean "a person that agrees with anything without questioning, discussing, etc...; a push-over".
Word Origin: The word comes from being a person - who agrees with anything - looks like a dildo which women use. Women can make or do anything to this dildo, get it in, out, or do anything. Likewise, being like this will make people do anything to you or force you to do anything they want.
The term is also connected to Orson Wells' Citizen Kane.
Living Dildo
This makes perfect sense, as ''so many'' men would not want to be awakened for passive sex. Really, they're probably just pretending to sleep. Also, the sock thing is rather hard to believe - if it's such a great stimulant, why do you never hear of couples doing this during normal 'wide awake' sex? -- 8^D http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BDAbramson BDAbramsongab 00:46, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
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