YFCF Newspaper Sessions: Dildo

Dildo's, what are you talking about?

A dildo is an artificial penis

and an artificial penis, according to the Dutch dictionary

Van Dale, eleventh edition, is a penis which is made of

artificial material, used to replace a real one,

more specifically for masturbation.

Dildo came to Dutch

through American English.

Until recently, etymologists ignored

any explanation for its origin.

But a professor in Arabic from Utrecht

and one from New York

started a hypothesis

which shows the Arabic doeldoel for donkey

as the origin of dildo.

According to the hypothesis

English learned the dildo from the Spanish,

who took the word from Arabic.

Doeldoel means something that dangles,

something swinging.

According to a Spanish encyclopaedia, on the other hand,

a dildo was a cactus with a soft but strong trunk

and pricks standing upright.

Thomas Nash wrote in 1601

'The Merry Ballad of Nash his Dildo'

in which a poet meets his mistress in a brothel,

after which he is suddenly overcome

by acute impotence.

My little dildo shall supply your kind.

A youth that is as light as leaves in wind:

He bendeth not, nor foldeth any deal,

But stands as stiff as he were made of steel.

Some see the origin of dildo

in the Italian diletto, delight,

but according to others, the English word derived

via diddle-o from to diddle,

that has a lot of significations

like to tease and to masturbate.

The dildo as a comforter for the lower body regions.

In France the object was called

godemichi.

And Jeroen Jeroense in 1698 :

The ladies who get no sausage to their toaster,

help themselves more than once with a velvet soother,

but Giest, and Trijn, and Hagt, and Griet,

do it together with a beet.

sausage=penis, toaster=vagina,

soother=dildo.

Finally, every now and then and

like a phantom out of the haze of history

appears the doubledildo !

but I don't know anything specific about it.

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