We’ve had strap ons since at least 400 BC, and people still have the nerve to go on gay hook up apps and ask “how can an FTM be a top?”
Image ID: Text “Fourteen inches and seventeen pounds of cast iron penis. My late husband found this in the walls of an early 1900s farmhouse that he helped a friend demolish. He wanted to throw it in with his scrap pile and I wouldn’t let him. I mean seriously…who would scrap this?!?” Under this are three pics of a dildo plus balls made out of cast iron. The member is placed on a work table and 2 of the pics also show licence plats and things hung on the wall behind it. The penis it’s self shows the signs aged cast iron does, slight rusting and tarnishing. It has a rounded end with a little ring at the tip end, and has a sligh curve to it making it look quite fallic indead. It looks as though, with the balls, it could have been used with a harness, or for personal use. End ID
I hope this helps whomever had a burning desire for a description, and that they now feel satisfied ;)
I remembers reading about how women in Nantucket and New Bedford and what not, would keep “he’s-at-homes” (scrimshaw dildos) for use while their husbands were out whaling (which was like a multiple years at sea job)
I love that it’s not just that they had dildos while their husbands were away, but that presumably their husbands gave them to them. And not just gave them to them – scrimshaw is the art of the whaler, carving sculptures from the bones and baleen on their catches. So the husbands probably carved them for their wives. The ‘think of me’ on the one above seems like confirmation. That’s love, that is.
[Image Description: a 4-tweet thread from Sophie Gonzales, @sgonzalesauhor, timestamped 6:09 AM 21 Dec 22, all text-only. The first one says:
“The biggest change of viewpoint I ever went through in psych training was when I said "but what it they’re doing it for attentioin” and my supervisor was like “what’s wrong with needing attention” and I realised I didn’t have an answer.“
The second one reads:
"Crying for help is not something people do if they don’t need help. If you’re "seeking attention” it’s because you are lonely, or scared, or not okay. You need support and human connection. So why is society’s response to that scenario to withhold it!!?“
The third one reads:
"It’s like society is so paranoid about "the boy who cried wolf” we might want to withhold support to anyone who might be anything other than “on the verge of an urgent emergency”. But the way to effectively STOP someone from an emergency situation is early intervention!“
The fourth one reads:
"And the sign that some early intervention is needed is usually, you guessed it, people trying to gain support and care from their loved ones / the people in their lives.
It;s not only valid to ask for help when the distress is a 10/10 emergency.”
I finally found a doctor that would remove my uterus and I had him preserve it in a jar for me. I gave it to a woman with a trans flag pin that said ‘MTF’ and told her the next time some idiot transphobe told her ‘real women have a uterus’, she could now reply with 100% honesty that she, in fact, did have a uterus and the transphobe could die mad about it.
the most fucked up thing about current copyright law is that the people who “own” shit like steamboat willie had absolutely no hand in making it. Nobody is alive today who worked on it, barely anybody who saw it in theatres when it was first released is alive today to witness it become public domain. copyright law fucking decimates the ability for creative ideas to retain a lifespan in the public consciousness because everyone fucking dies before they get to make their own creative spins on the things they grew up with.
Copyright lasting this absurdly long makes it transparently obvious that it was never about protecting the works of artists, it’s about landlording creative works
