Before mirrors were invented, almost no one had ever seen their own asshole
Before mirrors were invented, almost no one had ever seen their own asshole
Aside from the few that found a very still pond and figured it was worth looking at.
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.
Even after mirrors were invented, I still haven't seen mine..
The view is shitty.
Be glad, you won't have to see a brown eye staring back at you.
I've seen my own asshole, it's not a particularly interesting view. I much prefer seeing someone else's.
I wonder if a human back then used the reflection from water at a lake or pond to see what their asshole looked like.
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!
Uhm.. any reflective surface like water would do though?