Mark Fennell
speaker
177 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Mark Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But a few decades later...
Two experts, weirdly, two guys named Rob, were less convinced of that likelihood.
True.
Because from the thin end of it, yes, it very clearly looks like the tip of a penis.
But if you flip it the other way, it kind of looks like a... Club.
The cliche of it.
Yeah, like a caveman club.
Ornamental penises were a thing in the Roman times.
Particularly the ones that are in Pompeii, because I'm like, that's not good luck there.
As a cloud descends over them.
Maybe it's not lucky after all.
And when this new analysis came out, it obviously hit the headlines.
Roman world plus wooden phallus, of course, naturally equals news.
And as you can tell from Kate and I,
lots of snickering ensued.
So that Roman phallus may be Kate's holy grail of sex history, but it's far from the last dildo of antiquity.
No, no, no.
As Kate has strung together these rare objects throughout time, a picture starts to form, a history that never makes it into the textbooks, but does reveal something very central about us human beings, which brings us to our next artefact penis.
Now, this one lives in London's Science Museum today, and it is in fact made of ivory.
No, I'm going to bequeath it to the National Library.
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