Oh, those kinky cavemen

[Guest]

Kinky Sex : So easy, a caveman could do it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

It could be larger and they could have used more than one.

Hey, I'm just listing the possibilities.

and the possibilities are endless!

I think this is the dildo in question too small to be a property marker...

Here's a nice big one though...

Native American dildoes

A friend of mine has a collection of similar ones, that he got in a little Chinese village. He said that, as far as he knew, they are exclusively used for magic- a newlywed couple would bury one under the house to ensure a boy baby. They were supposedly created when lightning struck the ground- but he said, you could go to the shops that hammered them out one after the other...

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

This isn't news to me. I doubt that even when people started marrying, the swinging really stopped. If it even survived the Victorians, it's an irrepressible part of human nature.

And I agree with Rob about sex being a religious experience...don't you hear Gods invoked and everything?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Kinky Sex : So easy, a caveman could do it.

Naturlich!

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

My understanding is that more egalitarian and matrilineal/matriarchal societies were more the agricultural ones, whereas the grazing/herdsman set were more likely to be patrilineal/patriarchal in social structure. The hunter/gatherers....well, up for grabs. Some were one and some the other.

 

[Stella_Omega]

My understanding is that more egalitarian and matrilineal/matriarchal societies were more the agricultural ones, whereas the grazing/herdsman set were more likely to be patrilineal/patriarchal in social structure. The hunter/gatherers....well, up for grabs. Some were one and some the other.

there's some evidence that says that- since hunters were more often unsuccessful than otherwise, the burden of food production fell on the gathering women. Also, since the women were the ones who remained in the camp, they were able to spend time in diplomatic and political activities- the men were together on their ways to and from the hunting fields but once there would spend most of their time solitary, waiting for prey. Not to mention, men who leave the camp don't always make it back safely.

 

[rgraham666]

Well, men are expendable, in my opinion.

Women and children, not.

 

[cloudy]

It's still interesting to read about, even if it's rather unbelievable that one woman did it all.
Ignore the romance, if you like, but the lifestyle stuff is fascinating and raises points you may not question- such as men being involved in reproduction. It's not logical. Women don;t conceive every time they have sex and they don;t find out they're pregnant till way after they had sex, so why would anyone make the link between sex and babies?

<shrugs>
I like the books anyway.

Also - isn;t it the sixth one due out next or have I been an idiot and missed a book I've been waiting for for ages?
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If you like the books, Mills, more power to you. I probably like some books that you would despise.

Unfortunately, some think that reading those books (amicus comes to mind immediately) is equivalent to studying real history - they forget that Auel writes fiction, sort of like people believing that The DaVinci Code was real.

 

[Stella_Omega]

If you like the books, Mills, more power to you. I probably like some books that you would despise.

Unfortunately, some think that reading those books (amicus comes to mind immediately) is equivalent to studying real history - they forget that Auel writes fiction, sort of like people believing that The DaVinci Code was real.

You can't blame Auel for that part of it, my love!

 

[cloudy]

You can't blame Auel for that part of it, my love!

No, it's certainly not the writer's fault.

 

[FatDino]

Here's a nice big one though...

No kidding, anything related to legends must be big. This is a true case of "it's so big it won't fit."

A friend of mine has a collection of similar ones, that he got in a little Chinese village. He said that, as far as he knew, they are exclusively used for magic- a newlywed couple would bury one under the house to ensure a boy baby. They were supposedly created when lightning struck the ground- but he said, you could go to the shops that hammered them out one after the other...

When lightning strikes the ground, I'd like to see if there's any damage done to my garden, not looking for penis-like burnt stones.

People just have way too much time on their hands.

 

[Stella_Omega]

People just have way too much time on their hands.

Some of us have a sort of vested interest... shameless self-promotion

 

[FatDino]

Some of us have a sort of vested interest... shameless self-promotion

LMAO...

Hey, I like the Boudoir Horse Hair Mardi Gras one. Now let's see the price...

*mega gasp*

Okay, so that's a huge chunk of my first paycheck I may never get to see.

 

[Vermilion]

No kidding, anything related to legends must be big. This is a true case of "it's so big it won't fit."


When lightning strikes the ground, I'd like to see if there's any damage done to my garden, not looking for penis-like burnt stones.

People just have way too much time on their hands.

It's like Sweet Home Alabama - where he encourages lightening to strike the sand and create amazing abstract glass forms.
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[FatDino]

It's like Sweet Home Alabama - where he encourages lightening to strike the sand and create amazing abstract glass forms.
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Yea, they're abstract all right. I can never tell what they mean.

(Pity me, I nearly failed art in highschool.)

 

[Stella_Omega]

LMAO...

Hey, I like the Boudoir Horse Hair Mardi Gras one. Now let's see the price...

*mega gasp*

Okay, so that's a huge chunk of my first paycheck I may never get to see.

It's money very well spent.
You get the AH discount, don't you forget that!

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's like Sweet Home Alabama - where he encourages lightening to strike the sand and create amazing abstract glass forms.
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they're called "Fulgurites" I bought one off ebay a while back, couldn't stop myself. It's teeny- maybe three inches long, and it looks like a slightly squished-up tube of regular brown sand, but it's very cool!

 

[FatDino]

It's money very well spent.
You get the AH discount, don't you forget that!

I do?

I'm still waiting for the check to buy all three volumes of Coming Together. Now I just have to figure out a way to explain them to my roomies if they gets the mail before I do.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I do?

I'm still waiting for the check to buy all three volumes of Coming Together. Now I just have to figure out a way to explain them to my roomies if they gets the mail before I do.

Research.

For your doctoral thesis.

yeah, that's it...

Don't you buy used books? Although it's possible that you wouldn't want those particular books... used...

 

[FatDino]

Research.

For your doctoral thesis.

yeah, that's it...

Don't you buy used books? Although it's possible that you wouldn't want those particular books... used...

ROFL...

I'm not even half way to my BS and I major in biotech .

Wait..."the effects of orgasms on DNA replication?"

Oh God...

Well, I do buy used books, just not these books.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I imagine that the different clans varied in social structure as needed. Some even had female hunters and male gatherers, with neither sex having a monopoly on any task but motherhood. Leadership in such and other situations (such as plenty of game and shorter hunting trips, or more wars) would be different from ones where the economy and social cohesion more on the women.

It would also explain why some societies (e.g. Greece, Persia, Rome, Israel, and India) gradually became strongly patriarchal, if they had already tendencies in that direction, whereas others (e.g. Egypt, Crete, and Phoenicia) did not. Each culture moved in a path that followed its own inertia. Over time, the ones with stronger agricultural leanings moved more toward a matrilineal or egalitarian society. The ones with a greater dependency on hunting and war favored a patriarchy, as each did what worked best under the circumstances.

Of course, there were exceptions: the Romans were warlike, but more into farming than herding (at least at first). But they came from Italian tribes with a long history of animal husbandry. And they had a very mixed agricultural economy overall, as both grains and meat were essential to their diet. And they were rather militaristic.

Then again, there were societies that were fairly warlike and had equal roles for both sexes. The Saxons had some prominent warrior princesses (eat your heart out, Xena , as did the Assyrians, the Berbers (but were overall rather patriarchal at the time), and many Native American tribes.

And there were herding societies where women had a greater role in some sense, most notably Celtic tribes. But even so, the men had a great deal of power in Gaul and Britannia, despite this relative equality. And grain did play a major factor in the Celtic economy in some places, especially Britain.

Much of this was a very wide range, suggesting rather complicated origins. Saying that all prehistoric tribes were purely matriarchal, egalitarian, or patriarchal is to oversimplify the matter rather distinctly.

 

[cloudy]

LMAO...

Hey, I like the Boudoir Horse Hair Mardi Gras one. Now let's see the price...

*mega gasp*

Okay, so that's a huge chunk of my first paycheck I may never get to see.

I have one of Stella's creations. She was my secret santa this past year. I'm a lucky, lucky girl.

 

[FatDino]

I have one of Stella's creations. She was my secret santa this past year. I'm a lucky, lucky girl.

Cloudyyyyy, how 'bout you be my secret santa this year and give me "presents" in August?

 

[3113]

I did like the descriptions of technology though- making white leather, figuring out a better way to push the sinew through the holes- thereby inventing the needle-- but loading every bit of technological advancement onto the shoulders of one woman (who happens to be a sex kitten as well) was a bit much, even by Romance standards.

It's been a long time since I read the books, but as I recall she discoveres just about everything short of the wheel...and I kinda wonder if by book 7 she'll have done that as well.

Maybe all those movies where the brilliant mathematician/nuclear physicist/rocket scientist is also a sex kitten (but for the glasses, of course!) aren't far wrong? There's prehistoric precidence for it

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's been a long time since I read the books, but as I recall she discoveres just about everything short of the wheel...and I kinda wonder if by book 7 she'll have done that as well.

Maybe all those movies where the brilliant mathematician/nuclear physicist/rocket scientist is also a sex kitten (but for the glasses, of course!) aren't far wrong? There's prehistoric precidence for it

I always put glasses on my sex kittens ... and then I take them off...
It's a sort of intellectual negligeè