"Statues in ancient Greece and Rome were often placed at street level, tinted with accurate colors, and displayed free of barricades, (Ellis, 1942) (Hersey, 2009), thereby making them more lifelike and accessible to touch than most statues today. Statues and life-sized automata were incorporated in religious and sex practices in ancient times. Ptolemaic statue marriages of ancient Greece occurred when a ruler or religious leader wed a statue of Aphrodite (Hersey, 2009). Ancient literary and historical accounts describe the sexual use of statues and automata in Dionysian orgies (Hersey, 2009)."