Yesterday was "Kanamara Matsuri" or the "Steel Phalus Festival" in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture. Formerly a festival for prostitutes to pray for good business and to avoid syphilis, it's now a fertility festival and HIV awareness event, which involves parding through the streets with a giant Penis.
Good old Japan. A sublime mixture of the culturally conservative and the batshit insane.
Photo from flickr user sachama used under creative commons license, some rights reserved by copyright holder.
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