• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Glazing would make it substantially smoother and moreover with the right glazing significantly less porous. What are you planning on doing that a lack of glazing would be appreciated, if it’s not glazed it would soak up liquids, feel dry constantly and be incredibly rough.

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      Glazing when cracked would make for sharp flaky surfaces. Almost no one wants to embed shards of glaze in themselves. We used other smoother materials for sex toys.

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        You do understand we have ancient pottery with glazing intact right? It’s not normally something to flake off except over extremely lang periods of time and wear.

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          Yes and that pottery was used for different purposes.

          You know we have ancient sex toys and they tend to not be 3.5 inch long pieces of ceramic, right?

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            19 days ago

            Do we know all the purposes? No.

            We know we have what we believe are sex toys and those are anything from wood to bone anywhere from a few inches to almost a foot iirc.

            We don’t know but predicting your incredulity on glazing being “flaky” is interesting given that glazing normally isn’t flaky and we have ceramic and glass sex toys today.

            Like I dunno this gourd shaped one.

            https://shrimpteeth.com/blog/dsirable-review

            Point being a carpenter has access to wood, a potter has access to clay. People work with what they’ve got and people are horny weirdos, there’s going to be a few odd sex toys throughout history.