This year’s Japanese Phallic Festival (yes, yes, you read it correctly 
) took place in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo and it gathered more than 30,000 worshipers who praised the sexuality gods and asked for protection from sexually transmitted diseases. Hmm…what a weird festival, isn’t it?
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April 18th, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Not so weird to me - Fertility is a good thing for those that want it, and I can’t argue with not wanting to catch STDs…
If they don’t want STDs, though, shouldn’t there be great big condoms over all those phalluses, though?
April 18th, 2008 - 8:39 pm
You may be wondering why only penis’ are displayed. It dates to the ancient misconception that sperm was the entire package, while the uterus was simply a petri dish. The festival dates back to before they realized both parents shared in genetics (despite it being so obvious). Some Japanese women take offense to them for this reason. To them I say, penis havers FTW.
April 20th, 2008 - 7:42 pm
I’ve never had to pluralize phallus before, but I just had a conversation about what more than one uterus is.
I’ve actually heard about this festival before, though. Oddly enough, it’s unique to Japan.
April 20th, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Actually its not unique to Japan. There are a few places that have various festivities for both male and female reproductive organs. Ancient Rome had these festivals as well, which is where Japan got it from. We even have a few of them in the U.S. though, I they usually try to hide it in some cute way, for instance the testicle festival.
April 21st, 2008 - 4:58 am
Yeah, but they never seem to have huge penis status everywhere
way to go Japan, you weird and cool country
April 21st, 2008 - 4:58 pm
I HAVE A PENIS
April 22nd, 2008 - 6:30 am
Japan rules
April 22nd, 2008 - 8:48 pm
Now that I think about it, sex rituals aren’t exclusive to Japan, but nothing else came up when I Googled “phallus festival”….
April 23rd, 2008 - 7:40 pm
too many gaijins
April 23rd, 2008 - 10:30 pm
i find this all to be a poor sad joke; because i’m bored.
April 24th, 2008 - 4:44 pm
I came here to get the answer as to why Japan is a weird country, instead I get a handful och pics that have been floating around the Internet for a decade.
April 26th, 2008 - 3:10 am
Dwindle, Some J-women like cock a lot. I would know. FTW.
Piroteknix, Japan is in all things unique, as any Japanese will tell.
yepyeppers, I rarely hear such absolute unadulterated bunk as your comment, “Ancient Rome … is where Japan got (this festival)”. You ever consider the teaching profession?
Joe…Rome is full of pricks, though…they don’t need statues!
pch-kid; Winner! Best comment!
Stephanie, hone those communication skills. When your tits fall, you will need verbal skills to get laid. You can fool some guy into thinking you actually have a brain.
gaijin, the solution to your problem is called “Ji-satsu,” and it sounds like the course for you! Or you can move to Rome, and fit right in.
Sir jorqe, …You are absolutely right! You ARE boring!
Sisquo, if you wanna see Japan in all it’s weird glory, buy an airline ticket. You will see a place that, surprisingly, is more than a decade old. Are you that old yet?
April 26th, 2008 - 3:51 am
i’m holding out for the vagina parade … now that’s something i’d wrap my head around
May 1st, 2008 - 2:23 am
Penis festivals sound like a good idea to me. After all, you get to certain age and getting a boner deserves a celebration!
May 3rd, 2008 - 2:52 pm
I agree with Nestor, we need more sexuality festivals. at least, to say we have said genetalia, and maybe to pray to not get any of those evil, evil STD’s. Heaven knows, it might teach the populace a bit if we put condom’s on the big old statues we parade around, with big signs on em that says “no STD’s if you use these!”
May 4th, 2008 - 11:44 am
COOL…… PENIS PARADE….. QUITE IDEA TO EACH COUNTRY
May 5th, 2008 - 3:19 am
ok…well really this is why I don’t want to go to Japan because of people like JoeinJapan, but critics are every where. and of course they suck. (god it’s people’s own thoughts get a life or something)
But besides that I’m acutally surprised that there are people taking these types of festivals serously and not going “eww” or “I’m going to japan just for this!” that amazes me,
hell I’m just stumbling around and I found this. didn’t even need to try and do research.
but the festival is actually entertaining.
May 9th, 2008 - 12:26 am
haha how bizarre !
May 11th, 2008 - 12:41 pm
chinpo!chinpo!
May 11th, 2008 - 6:42 pm
Japan is not weird. It is different. In Japan it is okay to respect fertility but even kissing in public is taboo. It is just different.
May 15th, 2008 - 5:26 pm
Japan is weird because it dates back from a very low culture… you know?
I mean, Japan is rich! But my goodness… they certainly always find an excuse to act so low.. (children are actually exposed to sexuality explicit nonsense! They’re humor is cruel, sadistic.. and from this root.. stems their essence of a poor/improper childhood… lack of respect towards the human being; this includes women and children especially… etc…
Japan is a weird country because they choose to be vulgar and disrespectful in so many ways… yet cover this truth with a blanket of lies such as “oh no… just open your mind” .. “oh no.. it’s all about (fill in the excuse here”
For example, in Japan … pedophilia is not only accepted, but embraced! But if you call someone a pedophile, we all know this is a serious offense, no?! However, “Lollikon” on the other hand.. is more of a compliment! Never call them a pedophile! Call them Lollikons…
So what does Lollikon mean?! PEDOPHILIA!
I mean, seriously… take a close look at their culture, they’re country, their ways … they’re overrated by other countries, like the US, and they’re not as smart as one would claim. Example;
one time, a girl was raped in the Tokyo train of Japan.. no one cared. They saw her get molested and litterally dragged into a bathroom… but they just sat by and kept to themselves. I GUESS THE RAPIST WAS JUST PLEASING THE PENIS GOD, HUH?
Because when the senior politician of Tokyo heard of the Japanese rape rate and how it is RARELY ever reported.. he simply shrugged off and said “well, that’s good that the rape rate is high because the japanese reproduction is low.. and at least it shows that Japanese men are verile… ”
VERILE?!
Does Japan not know that RAPE has nothing to do with SEXUALITY?
just because it involves the genitals doesn’t mean it’s sex.
Oh, I suppose because this morning I urinated in the bathroom… I also had sex, because it involved my reproductive organ… no?
Rape, is about power and cowardism. Which is what Japan practically represents.
I mean, seriously… even the color “yellow” to them means “bravery” when in the western area yellow represents cowardism due to a history involving an act that happened with that color; but gee.. I’m sure Japan would considered that act to be “commendable”…
JUST AS RAPE IS! (to them)