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(3,992 posts)This from the description of a 4,000 year old burial site found in China recently:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/worlds-oldest-pornography-3000-years-old-bi-curious_n_2687937.html
The cemetery where the mummies were found was unique in the world for its time. The site bristled with nearly 200 poplar posts, up to 12 feet high, and it required extravagant amounts of lumber. Some of the posts, painted black and red, were either torpedo-like or resembled oversized oars. The bodies lay on the sand, covered with boat-like coffins wrapped in cattle hides.
Viktor Mair, a professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the foremost experts on the mummies, writes that SRC5 was a forest of phalluses and vulvas
blanketed in sexual symbolism. The torpedoes were phallic symbols marking all the female graves, while the oars marking the male burials represented vulvas. Many female burials contained carved phalluses at their sides, and the mound also contained large wooden sculptures with hyperbolized genitalia. Such overt, pervasive attention to sexual reproduction is extremely rare in the world for a burial ground,