# who invented anal sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 1, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934 "2001-11-01T16:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934/41 "2001-11-02T23:40:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \* > \*\*I have read that gorillas on occasion engage in anal sex, which would support the hypothesis that anal sex wasn’t invented, but instead is at least at some level instinctive behavior. I would provide a cite, but I am **not** going to do a google search for “anal sex gorilla” from work. :eek: > > Sua \*\* Anal Sex Gorilla…now **THAT’S** a band name!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934/42 "2001-11-03T20:30:02Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \* > \*\*I have read that gorillas on occasion engage in anal sex, which would support the hypothesis that anal sex wasn’t invented, but instead is at least at some level instinctive behavior. I would provide a cite, but I am **not** going to do a google search for “anal sex gorilla” from work. :eek: > > Sua \*\* Check out your copy of “More of the Straight Dope” page 199 line 3 - Ahem - “…Erwin and Maple (1976) discribe two male rhesus monkeys who lived together for 19 months and engaged in “reciprocal mounting with anal penetration”…” So Im with the crew that says that its more/less natural. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934/43 "2001-11-03T21:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > \*\*\* "In Ancient Greek there was a verb “to radish”, which was the act of punishing an adulterer by inserting a large vegetable into the rectum. In “The Clouds”, Aristophanes sought laughs from the thought of adulterers getting punished in this manner. \*\* This kind of thing is also discussed by [Catullus](http://www.vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/015x.html). Spiny fish were also involved. :eek: Again, not _entirely_ germane to the question at hand, but Catullus is fun. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934/44 "2001-11-03T22:58:44Z")
I’ve been readng about Priapus/Priapos, the Graeco-Roman god with the utrageously large phallus. Apparently farmers used t carve crude statues of the god, paint the penis red, and leave it out as a scarecrow to scare away birds and vegetable thieves. In order to further deter the latter they might put up a card with a warning about the god anally “having” thieves. A whole class of poetry called Priapisms" devoted to this has come down to us. This is _really_ weird. T put it in modern terms, imagine that your neighbor has decked out his backyard arden with garden gnomes with enormous red peckers, and with signs that read “Trespassers wil be Violated”. ---
**Author:** ![BoiToi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@BoiToi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoiToi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934/45 "2001-11-04T18:40:35Z")
I think it’s just a guy thing. Seems we’ll put it anywhere where we feel it’s safe, warm, wet, has enough resistance, and we won’t have to clean up after ourselves. If it weren’t for taboos I’d certainly have more than my share… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-anal-sex/90934.md?page=2)