Japan Penis Festival

Why didn’t Las Vegas think of this first? I guess because the Japanese have been doing them since long before there was a Las Vegas, or even a USA.

KOMAKI, Japan – 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.
…Meanwhile, the festivals provide an economic shot in the arm for host cities, a party for foreign tourists and expats, and a chance for locals to let loose, too.

One of the best-known penis festivals is at Komaki City’s Tagata shrine, about 45 minutes outside Nagoya, every March 15.

…The penis festival the following day drew far more foreign and Japanese tourists – some 100,000, according to a festival brochure. Festival foreplay included much posing with wooden and candy penises. The main event is the parading of a two-foot by six-and-a-half foot long phallus carved from Japanese cypress.

Las Vegas could use one of these! We can hardly wait for the day they parade one of these things down the Las Vegas Strip.

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