Before mirrors were invented, almost no one had ever seen their own asshole

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• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s funny you say that, because I was just watching a video of great apes looking at themselves in a mirror that scientists set up in the jungle. Once they got over the fear and realized they were seeing themselves, one of the things multiple apes did was look at their assholes.

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  • Pancito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They tried to look at every part of their body. Yes, this includes the asshole.

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    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The video is was watching they were very specifically looking at their assholes. They were putting their leg up on the mirror to get a better view

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even after mirrors were invented, I still haven’t seen mine…

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The view is shitty.

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  • kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Be glad, you won’t have to see a brown eye staring back at you.

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• thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if a human back then used the reflection from water at a lake or pond to see what their asshole looked like.

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  • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember that the first mirrors were made from metal and polished volcanic glass.

    Which means mirrors or mirror substitutes were always available to us even before we made metal tools as long as we could source obsidian. Granted you’d have to actually live near an active volcano for the latter.

    However you aren’t wrong! A cheap way to make “mirrors” in the old time is to just take a flat bowl with mud lining the bottom and have water on top. This was used when volcanic rock of polished stone/metal was not readily available!

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• DharmaCurious@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen my own asshole, it’s not a particularly interesting view. I much prefer seeing someone else’s.

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• Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uhm… any reflective surface like water would do though?

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or their own bald spot.

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  • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless they look at their reflection in the water.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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