Nothing says springtime like a penis festival

[spinbaby]

http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/80333.php

It's springtime in Japan and that means one thing. Actually, two things. Penis festivals and vagina festivals. It may sound like a sophomoric gag. But these are folk rites going back at least 1,500 years, into Japan's agricultural past. They're held to ensure a good harvest and promote baby-making. One of the best-known penis festivals is at Komaki City's Tagata shrine, about 45 minutes outside Nagoya, every March 15. In a neighboring village, a vagina festival is held the Sunday before that.


Check out the video.

[TZ]

1. Hey Mcctatas!!!

Sounds like your kind of party!!! :rofl:

[mcctatas]

2. I meant to post this in the Lounge yesterday...

I somehow screwed that up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x225986#226735

[TZ]

3. You posted that in GDP? OMFG!!

I think considering all the pricks that post there that was HIGHLY appropriate!!! :rofl:

[mcctatas]

4. on the plus side...

it made the Greatest page :P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Can you imagine the outrage of the puritan wingnuts in this country

if there was a festival involving a whole bunch of huge dicks?

Oh, wait... that would be a teabagger rally. Or the Republican National Convention.

[madrchsod]

15. ahhh...the mayday festival ...

when young virgins dance around a "big pole" and handed out "baskets of their delights" to their favorite young lad....ah what fond memories of my youth!

oh shit you are right...the wing nuts killed that off during the late 50`s...mayday became law day because the evil soviets had their military parade on may first.

[arod_5450]

6. huh???

[sammytko]

7. I have to tell my niece

she is taking an art class and one of the guys draws nothing but PENISES or is that PENI?

Maybe he can go there....

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. No, the plural of "penis" is not "peni".

If I remember correctly, the declension is as follows:

Singular
N penis
G penis
D peni
Ac penem
Ab pene

Plural
N penes
G penum
D penibus
Ac penes
Ab penibus

[Kaleva]

12. I don't think that kind of stuff belongs here in the Lounge!

j/k!

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Five things I hope to do, if I ever go back to Japan.

1.Ride the Shinkansen. (Bullet Train)
2.Go to a Sumo Wrestling Match
3.Attend a Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival)
4.Visit Osaka Castle.
5. Visit Komaki City's Tagata shrine and see this fesitval.
From what I understand from friends and family who had been there, it is quite interesting. The souvenir shops have some crazy items as well, from Candy to toys. The other thing one will find at these festivals are plenty of casks of Saki given out freely. How can one pass up free Saki?

[MilesColtrane]

9. What a sausage-fest.

Where's the link to the vagina festival?

[Coventina]

11. From what I've heard, both genders go around licking penis-shaped sweets.

Lollipops & popsicle-type treats.

Our puritan culture could never take it....

[Burma Jones]

13. The sight of all those disembodied penises.......

is a little disturbing

[madrchsod]

14. i prefer the mayday penis festival....