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xc2215x@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Crowds march with giant phalluses at Japan's fertility festival

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Crowds march with giant phalluses at Japan's fertility festival

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xc2215x@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Crowds march with giant phalluses at Japan’s fertility festival
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Giant phallus-shaped portable shrines and penis-themed candies took over the streets near Tokyo on Sunday as crowds flocked to Japan’s “Kanamara” fertility festival, a vibrant and unabashed celebration…
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    meanwhile in the states: “how am i supposed to explain your penis costume to my kids?!?!? i voted for pedophile in chief btw”

    https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship/

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      That probably goes back to JH Kellogg and his Seventh Day Adventist religion, and possibly back to the Puritans.

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        “doc, i have a pain in my lower back when i get up in the morning”

        “sounds like you touch yourself. do you?”

        “um…”

        “that explains it. stop sinning, eat these cornflakes and call me in the morning”

        “sounds legit”

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          JH Kellogg was a physician, so his view came with that stamp of medical authority.

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            i wonder what med school course it is where they learned that jesus hates you if you burp the worm

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      On the contrary it should be very easy, since they have one giant dong elected as POTUS.

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    I was wondering why only penises…where are all the vaginas and then I read the article.

    The festival as legend has it honours a local blacksmith in the Edo Period (1603-1868) who forged an iron dildo to break the teeth of a sharp-toothed demon inhabiting a woman’s vagina that had been castrating young men on their wedding nights.

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      Movie adaptation when?

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        Already exists. I think it’s called Teeth.

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          VAGINA DENTATA! VAGINA DENTATA!!!

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      I now have additional questions.

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      Wow.

      An almost literal man-eater.

      … fuck. That’s hilarious!

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    I never realized that Japan has so many dickheads

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