Crowds march with giant phalluses at Japan's fertility festival

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260405-crowds-march-with-giant-phalluses-at-japan-s-fertility-festival

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U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 34 pts · 167d (5 replies)
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Corvidae@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 167d (3 replies)

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

U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 167d (2 replies)
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Corvidae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 167d (1 reply)

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

U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 167d
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SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 167d

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

tingly@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 167d (5 replies)

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.

Eldritch@piefed.world · 11 pts · 167d (2 replies)

Movie adaptation when?

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 167d (1 reply)

Already exists. I think it’s called Teeth.

0ops@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 167d

VAGINA DENTATA! VAGINA DENTATA!!!

unpossum@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 167d

I now have additional questions.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 167d

Wow.

An almost literal man-eater.

... fuck. That's hilarious!

charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 167d

I never realized that Japan has so many dickheads