Editing Sex toy (section)

==== Ancient Greece ====
[[File:Pittore dell'angelo volante (attr.), anfora con falli-uccello e ragazza con un fallo, 490 ac. ca. 04.JPG|thumb|right|A woman with a dildo. [[Red-figure pottery|Red figure]] amphora attributed to the [[List of Greek vase painters|Flying-Angel Painter]] {{Circa|490 BC}}; [[Petit Palais|City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts]]]]
Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term "toy" in reference to a dildo.<ref name=":0" /> Dildos may be seen in some examples of [[Pottery of ancient Greece|ancient Greek vase art]]. Some pieces show their use in group sex or in solitary female masturbation.<ref name="duBois 2003 85">{{cite book | title= Slaves and other objects | last=  duBois | first= Paige | year= 2003 | publisher= University of Chicago Press| isbn= 0-226-16787-9 |page=85}}</ref>  One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform [[oral sex]] on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her [[anal sex|anus]].<ref>
{{cite book | title= Athenian Red Figure Vases: the Archaic Period | last=  Boardman | first= John | year= 1975 | publisher=  Thames & Hudson| isbn= 0-500-20143-9 |page=85| author-link=John Boardman (art historian)}}</ref>

[[Page DuBois]], a classicist and feminist theorist, suggests that dildos were present in Greek art because the ancient Greek male imagination found it difficult to conceive of sex taking place without penetration. Therefore, female masturbation or sex between women required an artificial phallus to be used.<ref name="duBois 2003 85"/>