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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History since 1997

British Museum R-Rated Exhibit

Friday May 12, 2006
When I visited the British Museum, I spent hours with the Greek and Roman collections looking closely at the household objects. Thus, I recognize the description of some of the objects the UK Guardian describes as belonging to an exhibit entitled Sex and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome, and especially the following:
    "If any visitor managed an impassive museum-visiting face, it must have dissolved at the sight of the Roman wind chime, a flying phallus, complete with wings, its own phallus and a phallic tail, hung with a row of little bells."

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