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Is it though? (infosec.pub)

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Glazing when cracked would make for sharp flaky surfaces. Almost no one wants to embed shards of glaze in themselves. We used other smoother materials for sex toys.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You do understand we have ancient pottery with glazing intact right? It's not normally something to flake off except over extremely lang periods of time and wear.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes and that pottery was used for different purposes.

You know we have ancient sex toys and they tend to not be 3.5 inch long pieces of ceramic, right?

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

That wasn't what you said in the first comment though. You mentioned only the glace as argument against it being a sex toy and the other comment answered to that single claim specifically.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do we know all the purposes? No.

We know we have what we believe are sex toys and those are anything from wood to bone anywhere from a few inches to almost a foot iirc.

We don't know but predicting your incredulity on glazing being "flaky" is interesting given that glazing normally isn't flaky and we have ceramic and glass sex toys today.

Like I dunno this gourd shaped one.

https://shrimpteeth.com/blog/dsirable-review

Point being a carpenter has access to wood, a potter has access to clay. People work with what they've got and people are horny weirdos, there's going to be a few odd sex toys throughout history.