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Festival of the Steel Phallus
Kawasaki, Japan - serlingrod - Sunday, May 6th, 2007 : goo
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The Kanamara Matsuri, also called Festival of the Steel Phallus, is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan each spring. The festival is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine, once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research. There's also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus that was used to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.
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EvilGentleman: 7th May 2007 - 03:26 GMT
I apologize in advance for the following politically-incorrect remark, but there is no way I can resist...
So, is this Erection Day coverage?
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