• Schmuppes@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    I believe that historians now lean towards the explanation that those were used as toilet brushes, not for the asshole.

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      The toilet brush position is very much a fringe view in academia and would require some rather intense explaining away of what we know about the tersorium.