Our Ancestors Were Totally Into Porn

You know the old saying, sometimes you find ancient pornographic graffiti and sometimes ancient pornographic graffiti finds you. Well, that's exactly what happened to Dr. Andreas Vlachopoulos, the latter anyway.

According to The Guardian (link below), Dr. Vlachopoulos made a shocking and sexy discovery while working on the island of Astypalaia in the Aegean Sea.

"They were what I would call triumphant inscriptions," said the Princeton-trained professor who found them while introducing students to the ancient island world of the Aegean. "They claimed their own space in large letters that not only expressed sexual desire but talked about the act of sex itself," he told the Guardian. "And that is very, very rare."

Chiselled into the outcrops of dolomite limestone that dot the cape, the inscriptions have provided invaluable insight into the private lives of those who inhabited archaic and classical Greece. One, believed to have been carved in the mid-sixth century BC, proclaimed: "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona (Νικασίτιμος οἶφε Τιμίονα).

Man, so many things to unpack here. First of all Dolomite? Really? That's an actual thing? When I hear Dolomite, this is the only thing that pops into my head...

Second of all, "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona"? Do you mean to tell me that the dude that carved this was simply marking his territory? That's fantastic. And somehow, this ties back into Rudy Ray Moore yet again...

Think about it. It all makes sense.

Via The Guardian