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[โ€“] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.