• naeap
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    1 year ago

    A drawn “heart” is a reference to either a female ass, breasts, or vulva - at least something I currently vaguely remember tells me that

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It’s evocative of those things for sure. There’s also the theory that the heart symbol is shaped like a mildly poisonous seed that induced infertility. This might be a myth though, as the plant doesn’t exist today.

      The heart symbol may also actually be a simplified representation of a real heart. A heart is a complex shape that you alnost never see. If priests can be so bad at drawing cats, I can totally believe that the heart was simplified so much.