Kanamara Penis Festival in Japan


Shinto priests working at a forge in the Kanayama Shrine during he Kanamara festival for the steel phallus in Kawasaki Daishi, Kanagawa, Japan. Sunday April 5th 2015. The Kanamara penis festival celebrates a legend about the defeat of a penis-eating demon. It is a wildly popular festival attracting large numbers of locals and foreigners.
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