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is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The penis forms the central theme of the event.
The Kanamara Matsuri 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.
Photos from the festival: mdn.mainichi.jp/photospeci...080407mara/
is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The penis forms the central theme of the event.
The Kanamara Matsuri 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.
Photos from the festival: mdn.mainichi.jp/photospeci...080407mara/
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Sat, May 10, 2008 - 11:11 PM
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Sun, May 11, 2008 - 8:50 PM<<There's also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding >>
Ahhhh A variation on the Vagina Dentata theme. The great haunting fear in so much early literature....and the nightmares of divorced men. -
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Sun, May 11, 2008 - 8:56 PM> and the nightmares of divorced men.
What? ..doesn't effect single or married men then ;) -
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:14 PM<<doesn't effect single or married men then >>
Not so much. They , (married and single men) are much more susceptible to a Mental Malady that has its roots in the Phillipines, (and who's name i cannot remember).
It involves a very insistent fear that ones penis is being drawn back up into the body, never to be retieved again. Sufferers go to great lengths to ensure that this does not happen. Frequently tying rocks to their members so as to prevent their dissapearance. -
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 3:22 PMIs anyone not squicked by some of these images?
Thank you guys, for being so willing to "educate" me. I'm going off to hide now.
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:02 PMNo, I think divorce is liberating for the penis. -
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:32 PMLiberating as in freedom or fallow
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:35 PMFallow seems to apply more to the vagina than the penis.
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:50 PM> .... Festival of the Steel Phallus
Anyone seen Iron Man ? -
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Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus)
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 6:47 AMme :)
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