The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is held each spring at the Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki, Japan. It was started in 1969 and is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine.
The penis is the central theme of the event. Many of the foods, art, costumes, illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and jewelry are designed to look like penises.
The shrine and festival are based on a legend about a demon that hid inside the vagina of a young woman and would bite the penis off of any man that fell in love with her on their wedding night.
She had a local blacksmith create an iron penis to break the demon’s teeth.
The Kanayama Shrine was popular among prostitutes who pray at it for protection from sexually transmitted infections.
It is also said that the shrine offers divine protections for easy delivery, marriage, and married-couple harmony.
Today the festival is also used to raise money for HIV research.
Also, note that all the objects made are circumcised.
Reality Decoded 
Looks like they have a much healthier attitude toward sex than North Americans do. The evangelicals would be so appalled thay would probably cover their eyes behind see-through plastic sleep masks. As for touching the sacred penis, they would have to cut off their hands. Putting an ice-cream penis in their mouth? I can’t even imagine their reaction!
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LOL. You are so right!
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Dr Kellog (yeah, the cereal guy) would be so disappointed.
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He would have just put them all in his sanitarium.
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….you just couldn’t make this stuff up!!
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You really can’t.
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😂
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OMG, now I’ve seen it all! I wonder what the Vagina Demon looks like …
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It looks like a woman saying no to the advances of a man in power most likely.
I saw a few rumors in the background of the story but they didn’t get written fully into the history.
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I’ve know this demon.
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Not to be outdone we have a…
Oh nevermind. I promised I wouldn’t talk poli-ticks
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lol
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Japan or South Korea, which land is more crazy? Penis festival or Poop museum and Penis Park?
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I did not know about those Oo
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You can check it out on the Google… 🙂
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Weird… and gross!
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You couldn’t have a hot dog festival in the same month… it would just be too weird.
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LOL, yeah. Still trying to get those images out of my mind 🙂
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Now I wish my country had a penis demon..
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Oo
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