July 28, 2005 — -- It might be small and older than old but there's little doubt about what the stone object represents. The not-quite-8-inch polished stone sculpture, found in a cave in ...

JEFFREY TOBIN is an associate professor in Occidental College's department of critical theory and social justice. MY 15 MINUTES of fame can be measured by Googling “phallus” and “phallologocentrism” ...

Archaeologists are debating what ancient Romans might have been doing with 16 centimetres of hard wood shaped like a phallus and rounded at the tip. The 2,000-year-old object, discovered in 1992 at ...

A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a ...

The dry expanses of south-eastern Türkiye, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a coloured boar. A 2.3 metre statue has been ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Avery Nelson/TMD. The penis, perhaps, in its most potent, primal state, might be one of the ...

BERLINBERLIN — Just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place, German news agency dpa reported ...

An ancient Roman wooden phallus found buried in a ditch was likely used for sexual purposes and is now on display at a museum in England. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Size matters at the Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, where groups of locals parade three heavy phalluses around the city - the biggest was as tall as a full-grown man. Japanese revellers carried giant ...

Bhutanese director Tashi Gyeltshen's debut 'The Red Phallus' charts the anguish of a high-school student as she's caught between her sculptor father, her married boyfriend and her own confusion about ...