Each April a shrine located in Kawasaki Kanagawa prefecture just a short train ride south of Tokyo holds a fertility festival. While that may seem like a joke or an April Fools Day gag it's all quite serious. That's of course one can get passed lollipops shaped like a certain male only body part.
Japanese revellers carried giant phalluses through the streets of Kawasaki on Sunday to worship the humble penis and fertility in one of the world’s most unusual festivals.
Size matters at the Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, where groups of locals parade three heavy phalluses around the city—the biggest as tall as a full-grown man.
Giggling festival-goers, including young children and grandmothers dressed in kimonos, sucked on penis lollipops and posed with phallus-shaped sculptures.
An anatomically correct radish-carving contest drew a large crowd of sniggering onlookers, while blushing parents perched babies on a giant see-saw of frighteningly accurate likeness to pray for fertility.
Poor Donald Trump would be so jealous. But, sadly he just doesn't measure up (Yes, the stupid pun was intended.)
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