The "artifact" was described on the auction site as an "ivory companion". Photo / Getty Images
The "artifact" was described on the auction site as an "ivory companion". Photo / Getty Images
An antique dildo has been safely returned to Ireland, after a passionate crowd-funding mission.
In 2017, Shawna Scott who owns Sex Siopa, an online sex shop, was heartbroken to learn an international collector had purchased the dildo in an auction.
The ivory dildo, which is at least 130 yearsold, was believed to have been owned by a wealthy Anglo-Irish household.
It was described on the auction site as an "ivory companion", and is believed to have originated in China and but been brought back to Ireland as a gift from husband to wife.
"It made my heart sink when it was sold. It just seemed like such an important part of Irish sexual history," Scott told the Irish Times.
"Sometimes I think with Irish history, unless something is tied to the famine or 1916 it gets a little forgotten or re-prioritised."
Miraculously, two years later she found out the sex toy was being auctioned off again - but she couldn't afford to buy it on her own.
Even so, I don't have the extra cash necessary to purchase the ghost-ridden (in more ways than one) ivory sex toy, and I have zero clue as to how museum management works or if anywhere would take it. So I need help. Who can help me save this dildo?
