Another day, another shocking fact about queer life showing up to disrupt everything we thought we knew! In this case, we’re interfacing with a TikTok revelation that feels almost too good to be true.
“I just learned humans invented the strap-on before they invented the wheel,” says @the_sexpert in a video from early April that’s still making the rounds on TikTok.
To which we said…wait, what?
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“The earliest strap-on archaeologists have found goes back to like, 10,000 BC,” the sexpert explains, “whereas wheels only started popping up around 4000 BC.”
I know what you’re thinking…is this true? Let’s check the board. We know that some years ago, archaeologists discovered a 2000-year-old dildo, which wasn’t even huge news. Dildos date back to the stone age, apparently—or at least, stones carved into a dildo shape are that old. We don’t know for sure that that’s what they were used for, but we have plenty of proof that the ancient Greeks and Romans got down with sex toys. They put them on their pottery! Ancient China also had c*ck rings and double-sided dildos, and it’s not surprising to learn that ancient cultures were just as horny as we are now.
But to get back to these strap-on statistics: when was the first strap-on invented, exactly? Apparently in the Paleolithic era! The original poster’s estimation of 10,000 BCE would appear to be correct.
There you have it—sex was officially more important to our ancient ancestors than getting across town. They had their priorities straight. And it’s not like it stops there: peep this fun medieval tidbit about a possible trans man in the 1400s:
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It just goes to show: human innovation has always been a lot hornier than we might assume!
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