Japanese Penis Festival
Every year on the first Sunday in April, the city of Kawasaki, Japan holds Kanamara Matsuri, the festival of the steel penis.
There's a Japanese legend that a sharp-toothed demon fell in love with a young woman and hid inside her vagina. He was so jealous that he bit off the penis of her husband on their wedding night. She married again, and the same thing happened to her second husband. The woman then got help from a blacksmith, who made a steel penis for her. When she used it, the demon broke off his teeth trying to bite it, whereupon he fled.
This thing in the shrine above is supposedly the steel penis of the legend. Where else would you find a shrine to a dildo?
The legend provides an excuse to celebrate the penis. Here, festival-goers are carrying a portable shrine with a giant penis.
You can buy penis lollipops to suck on.
Another portable shrine with a giant pink penis. Gay rights groups have used the festival to promote AIDS awareness.
Things to do at the festival: you can suck on a penis ...
Or you can buy a pair of glasses with a penis nose ...
Or you can suck on a penis ...
Or you can buy penis-shaped candles ...
Or you can suck on a penis, ever-popular with Western visitors ...
Or you can get your picture taken with a dickhead ...
And did I mention that you can suck on a penis? This guy likes them big.
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