Kanamara Matsuri (Penis Festival)

[Bonobo]

It's called the Kanamara Matsuri and it's a celebration of the symbol of male fertility, the penis. People flock from all over Japan and indeed the world to visit this fun celebration. Most notable to me is the lighthearted joy and spirit of fun. Truly the lack of moral outrage and expression of fear and revulsion at the sight of an erect penis can only be attributed to the lack of Puritanism that is so inherent in Western culture, particularly America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/japan-penis-festival-kanamara-matsuri_n_5106378.html

It's fun and that's easy to see that just by looking at the below photos.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I can't imagine a festival like that in my part of Japan

It's dull, dull, dull here.

Or as Monty Python would say, it's *staggeringly* dull.

[yuiyoshida]

2. If they had a festival like this in the

United States, Heads would explodes and every preacher of 3,000 miles (ordained or not) would be there to protest it.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. I was surprised by that sign for hand-made candy

It actually spells out the Japanese words for male and female genitals . Even in, ahem, Japanese men's magazines, those words are usually written with a letter missing, like マOコ instead of マンコ

[yuiyoshida]

3. The comments were interesting...

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[Kablooie]

6. Chinko - manko ... Isn't that a dirty word in Japan?