Comment on Venus Priapus

Cf. DNP, op. cit., Mutunus Tutunus or Mutinus Titinus.

Mutunus Tutunus had a temple on Rome’s Velian Hill (removed in 1932) where women came to offer sacrifices. It was claimed that newlywed brides would lie atop the divine phallus as a form of initiation ritual before lovemaking of their wedding night.

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