“In Ancient Greece the proxy [for taking a woman’s virginity]
was not always a man; a statue of a male with an erection sufficed. A young Greek girl of marrying age and belonging to the aristocratic class ceremonially had her hymen pierced by the stone penis of the god Priapus, the embodiment of male procreative power. The deflowered virgin was then fit for marriage and guaranteed progeny since her first “lover” was Priapus himself.
“In an era when phallic worship was commonplace, when statues and effigies sported erect members, it is not surprising to find numerous ceremonies in which virgins and childless women employed dildos (from the Latin dilatare, “to open wide”) for sacred reasons.
“In Rome, the wooden penis of the fertility god Liber deflowered brides-to-be. On March 17, his feast day, a six-foot-high wooden phallus was mounted on a wagon and drawn through the city streets as part of the Liberalia celebration. […]
“In Southern France, phallic wortship by betrothed girls and barren wives took place at the shrine of St. Foutin. A few centuries later when Protestants captued the town and destroyed the local church, thet discovered statues of the genitally tumescent saint. The tips of the penises were colored red, which generated much debate as to how they became stained. The official church explanation holds that worshipers poured wine over the erect organ, then drank it to promote fertility. The other likelihood is that the statues were employed as Greek girls once used the organ of Priapus.”
- From Panati’s Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody by Charles Panati
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