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Calling the Japanese for a WTFBARBECUEDLOLLIPOPPENIS

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preslove

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OK, so no pics in this post because I'd prolly be permabanned...


So, just for the record for all you NSFW callers... and people who can't stand the image of an erect penis... or anyone with random kids walking around... Don't google it and click on any links...

This thread is about for some old penis festival in Japan.

I'd like to hear the point of view of anyone who is Japanese, or has been to Japan, or has studied Japanese culture...

WTF?

lulz






(First google hit is a Wikipedia page with a tasteful image of a giant pink phallus... and someone's grandma in the first row)


Kanamara Matsuri
 
Hmm, our school mascot is a giant penis named Scroty. Our hockey team is named the Nads, so we yell "Go Nads!" during the games. Our basketball team is named the Balls.

Yeah art school doesn't take anything too seriously.
 
from Wiki:
The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The penis forms the central theme of the event that is reflected everywhere?in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade.

The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are divine protections also in business prosperity and the clan's prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony. There is also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.

Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research.
Many travellers from Europe or US visit and attend the festival.
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To answer the OP: Japanese culture over the previous 50 years has had no real adult influence. there's a pretty nifty sociological study that ties in to the moral and historical defeat when they lost WW2--first time in their 2000 year history, extreme warlord culture suddenly decimated, and now completely dependent on those that defeated them to recover. During the war, that strong adult demographic was annihilated (apparently, ordering the few remaining teenagers and adults of your society to hurl their planes into enemy battleships in a last-ditch effort to save face in a war that had already been lost was less favorable to allowing those men to live, and raise their children to respect their culture; but, you know...hindsight being 20/20...) Instead, post-war Japan suffered a major identity crisis. Gone was the supreme lack of respect one is expected of their elders (this still remains to some degree, but the children of that time, and now their children were raised with no solid example of adult leadership, read porn on the subway, and are acting as the "adult" example for today's Japanese kids).

This is why you see freaks on the trains, well into their 30s and 40s, reading cartoon porn, cheesy children's comics, worthless manga, etc. And it's perfectly acceptable, it seems. This is why you have this bizarre fascination with anonymous mass suicide, where teens and middle-aged Japanese folks will meet on the internet and agree to gather at one location and share an asphyxiation death by burning charcoal. I guess they still feel the pressures of traditional Japanese cultural demands and expectations, but they have reached a social crises that results from two consecutive generations with no solid adult example. the shame of defeat, it seems, can last generations in a culture with such a proud history. (Not my theory; but a published Japanese anthropologist/psychologist explaining what has happened to modern Japanese culture)

This is why you have festivals with scrawny dudes that can't hold their liquor riding giant wooden cocks whilst receiving mass crowd encouragement. ....eh, NVM about that one. Sounds no different than Cape Cod or Panama beach.... 😉
 
I love how everyone takes one example of something that happens in Japan and then generalizes the whole Japanese population to match that example.

EVERYONE IN JAPAN IS AN OTAKU!

No, I've met more retardedly obsessed anime fanatics here than in Japan, and in both places they are (and should be) looked down upon. Being an otaku is not cool in japan...

Hell, pics of San Francisco and Vegas blow this out of the water.
 
Been there done that over 21 years ago. They also had a sex museum somewhere south of Tokyo in a town called Atami that was a little tame.
 
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