So I was on the Internet the other day and I found this.
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And did you read about the festival? What legend it's based on?
It's quite a funny story.
The first Sunday in April marks the celebration of the Shinto fertility festival, the Kanamara Matsuri or the 'Festival of the Steel Phallus.' Known colloquially as the 'Penis Festival', these festivities celebrate just that: the power of the humble penis. And it is an event that is gaining increasing popularity, especially among foreign visitors, each year.
The 2015 Penis Festival will take place on Sunday, 5 April.
So you're probably wondering why the Japanese celebrate the 'steel phallus.' Well, legend has it that sometime back in the Edo period (1603-1867), there was a sharp-toothed demon who fell in love with a beautiful woman. The woman, however, didn't return the demon's affection and decided to marry another man. Angering the demon, he inhabited the woman's vagina before their wedding night and when they tried to consummate the marriage, the demon bit off the groom's penis with his razor sharp teeth.
When the woman remarried, the jealous demon once again made his feelings clear by biting off her second husband's penis. Deciding that enough was enough, the upset villagers concocted a plan to trick the demon. A local blacksmith forged a steel phallus and upon its insertion, the demon's teeth were broken and he left the woman's vagina for good.
Sometime thereafter the legend was commemorated by way of the Kanamara Matsuri and the enshrinement of the actual steel phallus at Kanayama Shrine, constructed to honor Kanayama Hikonokami and Kanayama Himenokami, the Shinto deities of childbirth and lower abdomen health.
The Kanayama Shrine then became renowned as a site for sex workers to pray for protection against STDs. Nowadays the shrine is said to aid fertility and is often visited by married couples hoping to start a family. The festival itself has also become popular with the gay, lesbian and transgender communities.
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It fascinates me that a nation as intelligent and advanced such as this one (Japan) could actually believe such tales.
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It fascinates me that a nation as intelligent and advanced such as this one (Japan) could actually believe such tales.
I'm sure it was believed in the past before we understood as much as we do today. However as times move on it becomes less about the tale and more about the tradition.
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Believe them? ? So it couldn't possibly be fun.... you know like we celebrate Santa Claus/Father Christmas. ... Who I'm fairly sure isn't real, and I'm fairly sure none of us think he is. ..
Perhaps (hence the word choice of "tales") but his dick is in his pants, not in public
Morning guys.....
I am all for worshiping dicks,I just love all the forms and girths and eruptions and other stuff it can do...IT is a real little bugger with a mind of its own.
Now where will I find one when I WANT ONE???? AAAAG OKAY, I forgot I can just go to the garage and open up all my kinky toys and take out the biggest baddest *dick* there is...... and I will fit right into the celebrations with the people of Japan.
