Explanation: Roman cities had significant literate populations, and so those few preserved remnants of buildings frequented by private citizens, such as the buried city of Pompeii, are often covered with graffiti, text and image alike, of varying themes.
One such recurring theme is drawings of dicks. Normal dicks, big dicks, little dicks, dicks with wings... the penis was considered a symbol of fertility (both kinds) and good luck, so rather than being inappropriate, it was funny and generally complimentary! (Though the sheer amount of graffiti certainly bothered some - as one Roman graffito ironically noted, "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.")
Maybe don't draw it over your pal's newly painted fresco though.
I can't help but notice the stark color difference between the penis area and the rest of the block. An unimaginable amount of hands must have touched that thing...
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PugJesus@piefed.social · 44 pts · 144d
Explanation: Roman cities had significant literate populations, and so those few preserved remnants of buildings frequented by private citizens, such as the buried city of Pompeii, are often covered with graffiti, text and image alike, of varying themes.
One such recurring theme is drawings of dicks. Normal dicks, big dicks, little dicks, dicks with wings... the penis was considered a symbol of fertility (both kinds) and good luck, so rather than being inappropriate, it was funny and generally complimentary! (Though the sheer amount of graffiti certainly bothered some - as one Roman graffito ironically noted, "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.")
Maybe don't draw it over your pal's newly painted fresco though.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 144d
Restaurants had real time yelp reviews, but it was a wall, and the dick system was manual.
UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au · 7 pts · 144d
Sadly my dick system is also manual.
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 144d
wtf is "automatic dick system"? :D
bobo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 144d
You'll find out when you're older
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 144d
god, i hope not :D
UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au · 2 pts · 144d
Ever hear of autofellatio?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 144d
"Only three dicks out of five? Let's try somewhere else."
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 144d
PugJesus@piefed.social · 18 pts · 144d
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 144d
Dickbutt's ancestor on a bas relief! :0
Speiser0@feddit.org · 6 pts · 144d
Great, now I want to see amateur roman drawings of dicks.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 144d
Carved into a city wall. Empúries, Spain.
Speiser0@feddit.org · 4 pts · 144d
Wow, even carved in 3D, it stands out. Thanks!
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d
I can't help but notice the stark color difference between the penis area and the rest of the block. An unimaginable amount of hands must have touched that thing...
... and I get it. I would, too.
Sergio@piefed.social · 3 pts · 144d
"So, Speiser0, why do you want to study history at our prestigious university?"
PugJesus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 144d
pp
Speiser0@feddit.org · 2 pts · 143d
<=3
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 144d
Imma tell this to my friends after they wake up from the party covered in dick drawings.
"It's for good luck!"