Many archaeologists suspect that it arose as early as the Paleolithic. To affirm this they are based on the fact that some of the oldest sculptures found to date, such as the Venus of Willendorf, Hohle Fels and Dolní Věstonice, exhibit vulvas and breasts of absolutely disproportionate size . That is, they were erotic objects carved at least 20,000 years ago. The North American anthropologist Tony Mellars is blunt: “There is a sexual symbolism that boils in that period of prehistory. People were crazy about sex . "
In any case, there is no consensus on the use given to these striking figures. April Nowell, an archaeologist at the University of Victoria (Canada), believes that the paleopornographic interpretation is just one more among other possible ones, such as the religious one, since they could also represent goddesses .
