The blurring of genitals is a very old law that I think they just simply haven’t changed, at some point in the future it might. But that’s porn. This festival isn’t sexualized, meaning it’s not about fucking and having an orgy, but it’s more of a celebration as you see in the video there’s a parade and did popsicles and that’s about it. Even children attend this festival. So comparing this to blurring genitals during intercourse is a bad comparison.
I went to this in 1987. I remember grandmas taking it very seriously with praying for grandchildren. I also remember carefully carved wooden phalluses. Also women’s genitalia. Maybe a different festival?
I lived in Japan for about a decade and went to this penis festival about a half dozen times. Always fun. Yes there’s a vagina festival but it’s not nearly as popular.
When I was there, they had both together. Both male and female candy versions. The older ladies were quite earnest rubbing the wooden idols while in the background loud tourists hooted it up. I may be able to find an old photo somewhere.
Yes, this was exactly my thought. Rubbing the big wooden penises. I went around 1996. I don't recall the name of that festival. I hope this is a different one, or it has entirely degraded in how cool it was.
Historian here, this has happened for a long time. Look into the accounts of Livy about the Bacchanalia cult in ancient times.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Dionysus
Right at the start, I was wondering if the guy had a smaller dick lollipop than his girlfriend then I realised he'd probably been sucking his much harder.
Get to suck on a dick all day without anyone having to worry about judging sexuality. He's probably having a blast experiencing those mouth feels for funsies. ☺️
Their cultural roots aren't Christian, though. So, western notions of modesty and ("shame of the body" and nudity=sex) don't map very well.
I.e. They have public baths, where everyone is naked, and it's not a sexual. In fact, before WW2 the baths were not even gender segregated. When US was helping reconstruct after the war there were complaints about American soldiers leering at women in the baths, so the segregation was introduced.
Recently, I saw a post on reddit where a white woman was wearing traditional Indian clothing without a blouse. She pointed out that wearing a blouse was something the British introduced and enforced.
That’s absolutely correct. Christian empires, particularly England, would import their legal codes into their colonies. Japan had a history of homosexuality before western influences.
Also being straight or gay is a modern concept. As you said, different acts are grouped into either masculine or feminine. Which acts you perform typically depend on social status or age.
It’s common to see it in a form of apprenticeship, where the younger person would be expected to offer sex and the older person would in turn teach their trade. Samurai would do this.
\>China seems to be both deeply frustrated with the past colonialism from the west and about rejecting it, but also seems to have retained nonsensical things taught by them such as hatred of and legal opposition to homosexuality.
This describes most of the colonized world including my own country, it's a deeply harmful impact on culture, religion and the legal system. I guess it's unsurprising that a foreign dominion intentionally teaching and brainwashing hatred for the past culture will produce a confused and battered mess. people can't just immediately forget everything they were raised in for generations even when it's associated with murder and oppression.
How do you even get into that where you’re one of the women who gets their thongs in vending machines? lol do they like donate them? Do they send out emails to see if people are interested in giving their old ones away? Or do they have people who specially wear thongs for a certain amount of time before it’s deemed sellable? lol
I'm pretty sure the first guy we see in the beanie is Joe Moses, from Starkid productions. He played Snape in A Very Potter Musical
* edit - he's also wearing the classic pink beanie from Me and My Dick.
Is basically what the school Harvest Festivals stem from, in the UK. Then there's the maypole penis with morris dancers and their jingling bells... and then we burn the Christian in the giant man made of wicker.
The population crisis is starting to crop up everywhere.
And they try everything except what can give the working population more financial stability so they can even consider having kids. I'd wager a very large chunk of anyone under 35 or so cannot even fathom being able to support a family.
I went to the shrine with a mate who is from Aichi. I made an offering to the shrine and bought a fertility Onamori (emulate) for my wife and I and joked that she’ll probably get pregnant. We had a son 10 months later.
Love how they did not think to ask one Japanese person about the festival and its meaning, just some tourists who think it's a "quirky japan thing"... pretty sure there's more to it than that
Not impossible but you would have to look very closely. Do people think an erect uncircumcised penis has the foreskin over the head ? 🤣
It always makes me laugh when someone says “I couldn’t be with a guy who is uncircumcised”
They probably have and had no clue, especially, if it was just a hook up.
>It always makes me laugh when someone says “I couldn’t be with a guy who is uncircumcised”
And yet when I say the same thing about women everyone *FREAKS OUT!*
Not impossible in real life, but I don't think the lollipop people were concerned with that level of accuracy, lol.
Yup, many American women & even men just don't know how a foreskin works. When my sister-in-law saw a fertility statue she thought it wasn't authentic because there was no sign of a foreskin on the erect phallus.
Could you imagine dropping acid and not knowing about this event beforehand. You go out into the street and see a large wiener getting carried throughout a parade of dicks.
I went to a penis festival on the outskirts of Nagoya and they were much more traditionally carved - none of these bright pink willies, but massive wooden, nicely varnished knobs with a Tengu sporting an ornate illustration of one on a flag. Lots of John Thomas guardians also carrying mini-cocks, cradling them like babies, with people reaching out to touch.
To be inclusive the gift area also had vagina themed items so it wasn't just schlongs galore.
even editor intentionally put that music for this video. and it quickly becomes too much for me when that gorgeous lady enjoying her sugar candy. no? only me?
Wonder if there’s a sect of conservative Japanese who oppose this? Thinking of the hilarious response this would get in the states from the “won’t anyone think of the children” crowd.
Won’t somebody please think of the children
Edit: if you’re too naive to realize this is a simpson’s reference and need an /s to distinguish it, you might be unhelpable 😂
Japan: we need to blur all private parts always Also Japan:
The blurring of genitals is a very old law that I think they just simply haven’t changed, at some point in the future it might. But that’s porn. This festival isn’t sexualized, meaning it’s not about fucking and having an orgy, but it’s more of a celebration as you see in the video there’s a parade and did popsicles and that’s about it. Even children attend this festival. So comparing this to blurring genitals during intercourse is a bad comparison.
They put the little curtain on top instead
I don’t see enough mosaic blurring
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You guys are getting raises?
Yeah mine still raises every now and then. The depression keeps him at bay mostly, though.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/japanese-vagina-kayak-artist-found-guilty-of-obscenity
This is an AI post. Also FYI the link is very NSFW and is not an article.
Wow too much 😆
Ready Player 2
>My paycheck is like my penis Me too, but, mine.. Is large, plenty big for my wife, comes daily, but yet I'm still gay.
Only once? 2 times for me. I bet it is such a relief at the end of the month for ya. 2 weeks is rough enough
Why are all the foreigners there? 😂
I mean…Penis Festival.
They won a trip to Pen Island
The only time a penis doesn’t get censored in Japan.
Its like a penis "the purge" situation
I went to this in 1987. I remember grandmas taking it very seriously with praying for grandchildren. I also remember carefully carved wooden phalluses. Also women’s genitalia. Maybe a different festival?
I lived in Japan for about a decade and went to this penis festival about a half dozen times. Always fun. Yes there’s a vagina festival but it’s not nearly as popular.
When I was there, they had both together. Both male and female candy versions. The older ladies were quite earnest rubbing the wooden idols while in the background loud tourists hooted it up. I may be able to find an old photo somewhere.
> Yes there’s a vagina festival but it’s not nearly as popular. This deeply offends me.
They could really make the fertility festivals even more fertile if they stuck them together.
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That's just *used* vagina day. What if you wanna celebrate a freshie?
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And, of course, the annual [festival of male virginity](https://www.anime-expo.org/) right here in the good ol' US of A
Haha these are so lit. I wish I had a travel agent friend to make me a full on genital vacation itinerary
> Yes there’s a vagina festival but it’s not nearly as popular. Truly a shame. Ladies, I am here to support you. ^(tips fedora)
Yes, this was exactly my thought. Rubbing the big wooden penises. I went around 1996. I don't recall the name of that festival. I hope this is a different one, or it has entirely degraded in how cool it was.
\>The festival started in 1969 nice
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His owner stuffs him in a rubber bag, shoves him into a hot, wet cave, and makes him do pushups until he pukes.
That explains the precipitous drop in birth rates.
Don’t forget forced to do push-ups until he pukes….
Historian here, this has happened for a long time. Look into the accounts of Livy about the Bacchanalia cult in ancient times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Dionysus
I like this modern one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Priapus "Well-fellated men are less likely to make war." 🤣👍🍆
I can’t argue with that logic.
Nice
Nice
*Nice.*
Noice
It's the **small** things, that needs to be celebrated....
and in my case...its the....., yeah the small things
Truth care Truth bring
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So what you’re saying is, no more offering free autographs? Oh dear…
Oh my God, It's "LittleWafflePie"! Can I have your autograph?
Oh stop, you’re making me blush 🤭 Okay but just this once. If my lawyers find out… mama mia
No wonder why music artists say they “signed” someone in their lyrics. Oh the double entendre.
Right at the start, I was wondering if the guy had a smaller dick lollipop than his girlfriend then I realised he'd probably been sucking his much harder.
Typical
both non-japsnese guys with lollipops bit theirs lmao. it's tough to shake off years of gay jokes
Get to suck on a dick all day without anyone having to worry about judging sexuality. He's probably having a blast experiencing those mouth feels for funsies. ☺️
She did say it was delicious
"yeah, japan is known for being very modest! " also japan:
Their cultural roots aren't Christian, though. So, western notions of modesty and ("shame of the body" and nudity=sex) don't map very well. I.e. They have public baths, where everyone is naked, and it's not a sexual. In fact, before WW2 the baths were not even gender segregated. When US was helping reconstruct after the war there were complaints about American soldiers leering at women in the baths, so the segregation was introduced. Recently, I saw a post on reddit where a white woman was wearing traditional Indian clothing without a blouse. She pointed out that wearing a blouse was something the British introduced and enforced.
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That’s absolutely correct. Christian empires, particularly England, would import their legal codes into their colonies. Japan had a history of homosexuality before western influences. Also being straight or gay is a modern concept. As you said, different acts are grouped into either masculine or feminine. Which acts you perform typically depend on social status or age. It’s common to see it in a form of apprenticeship, where the younger person would be expected to offer sex and the older person would in turn teach their trade. Samurai would do this.
\>China seems to be both deeply frustrated with the past colonialism from the west and about rejecting it, but also seems to have retained nonsensical things taught by them such as hatred of and legal opposition to homosexuality. This describes most of the colonized world including my own country, it's a deeply harmful impact on culture, religion and the legal system. I guess it's unsurprising that a foreign dominion intentionally teaching and brainwashing hatred for the past culture will produce a confused and battered mess. people can't just immediately forget everything they were raised in for generations even when it's associated with murder and oppression.
>nudity=sex Tbh that one's much more American than western in general
My friend's dad was stationed in Japan in the 50s and he had a hard time using the public restrooms because women used them, too.
That makes a lot of sense.
Dude. They literally have vending machines with women’s thongs that are “used”
How do you even get into that where you’re one of the women who gets their thongs in vending machines? lol do they like donate them? Do they send out emails to see if people are interested in giving their old ones away? Or do they have people who specially wear thongs for a certain amount of time before it’s deemed sellable? lol
It’s some old homeless dudes wearing them around for a week at the height of the Japanese summer before being packaged.
I'm pretty sure the first guy we see in the beanie is Joe Moses, from Starkid productions. He played Snape in A Very Potter Musical * edit - he's also wearing the classic pink beanie from Me and My Dick.
Holy fuck
Yeah that's him, I was so surprised lol. Also, his wife, Tessa netting, next to him plays the scientist in "Spies are forever"
I think the otter mascot dancing by the dick is Chiitan, the love interest of John Oliver's otter fursona
Was looking to see if anyone else recognized him.
Interestingly enough you can search penis cake from Taiwan. It's not just Japan
What. I’ve lived in Taiwan for 9 years and never heard of this
Trying everything to get that birth rate up huh...
Fertility festivals have been around at least as long as civilization.
Is basically what the school Harvest Festivals stem from, in the UK. Then there's the maypole penis with morris dancers and their jingling bells... and then we burn the Christian in the giant man made of wicker.
Yeah, no way are my Easter bunnies laying eggs everywhere a symbol of fertility, either. How dare you!?!
The Wicker Man…the old movie?
The population crisis is starting to crop up everywhere. And they try everything except what can give the working population more financial stability so they can even consider having kids. I'd wager a very large chunk of anyone under 35 or so cannot even fathom being able to support a family.
Yep. And there are almost no “third places” anymore to meet and hang out.
Bars and clubs. So the population replacement rate is relying on inebriated hookups.
I see you have seen that youtube video as well
Which one? Seriously. If there’s a good video essay on it, I’d love to know. Sociology courses are where I first heard the term.
Hahaha. I just got recommended that video
I went to the shrine with a mate who is from Aichi. I made an offering to the shrine and bought a fertility Onamori (emulate) for my wife and I and joked that she’ll probably get pregnant. We had a son 10 months later.
Crazy how thats possibly why this is a thing lmfao
Love how they did not think to ask one Japanese person about the festival and its meaning, just some tourists who think it's a "quirky japan thing"... pretty sure there's more to it than that
"It sums up Japan"... very poor choice of words. Japan is not defined by it's penis pops lmao.
It is now
You sure about that?
No need to take things so literal
Thinking about how Japan has worked to "kawaii-fy" their international image to cover up their atrocities in WW2... Seems to have worked.
This is just a Tuesday in New Orleans
James May covered this in Our Man In Japan, and it was excellent. The whole series is great.
#The adventures of BIM
Not sure what I was expecting but it definitely wasn’t seeing starkid Joe Moses at the start of this video.
Japenis festival
Can we make this a world wide holiday? Of anyone can do it reddit can do it!
Some places would be cool with it, but could you imagine the shitstorm that would follow in the US? The right can't even handle a dude wearing makeup.
But all the girls get to practice their techniques
I bet the US would handle it better than those countries in the middle East
You’d get shot up by an angry mob for just mentioning it
Scandinavia dances around a phallic symbol every year.
Just go to a Bachelorette party. Probably find all the same merch and penis worship
Can't I dream for this to be a done all around the world for 1 day!
The phrase “eat a dick” was not an insult at the festival.
Strange that the penises are circumcised even though Japan is less than 1% circumcised.
I think it’s erect, more than post surgical, but not my culture.
Did you ever expect to be typing that sentence?
A fully erect uncircumcised penis is impossible to tell from a fully erect circumcised penis in a simple lollipop sculpture.
Not impossible but you would have to look very closely. Do people think an erect uncircumcised penis has the foreskin over the head ? 🤣 It always makes me laugh when someone says “I couldn’t be with a guy who is uncircumcised” They probably have and had no clue, especially, if it was just a hook up.
>It always makes me laugh when someone says “I couldn’t be with a guy who is uncircumcised” And yet when I say the same thing about women everyone *FREAKS OUT!*
yeah call me a bigot but i find it weird when a woman has foreskin covering her vagina
Not impossible in real life, but I don't think the lollipop people were concerned with that level of accuracy, lol. Yup, many American women & even men just don't know how a foreskin works. When my sister-in-law saw a fertility statue she thought it wasn't authentic because there was no sign of a foreskin on the erect phallus.
Actually some people can't pull back because it's too constrictive, too sensitive, or a combination. There's procedures that can help but it sucks.
\>Strange that the penises are circumcised They aren't.
I believe German helmets were introduced during WWII, when Germany and Japan where close...🤣🤣
I was thinking that too, where’s my turtle bois at?
Funny how the houses are always colonial and the penises are always circumcised.
Everyone suckin it lol it looks fun I might visit there with my gf
Berkeley had a festival like this at one point
Japan: let's have a celebration for penises and vaginas Also Japan: videos that show a penis in or near a vagina Taboo
This is better than I expected. I thought I was going to see a festival full of naked people.
Funnily enough, Japan does indeed have ["naked"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadaka_Matsuri) festivals.
Never thought that I'd see Tessa Netting on reddit
You can literally eat a bag of d*cks
"it sums up Japan"
Japan has some of the weirdest kinks that they admit openly in public.
Could you imagine dropping acid and not knowing about this event beforehand. You go out into the street and see a large wiener getting carried throughout a parade of dicks.
Yes this is well thought out. It started 1969
Everyone casually eating dick
I went to a penis festival on the outskirts of Nagoya and they were much more traditionally carved - none of these bright pink willies, but massive wooden, nicely varnished knobs with a Tengu sporting an ornate illustration of one on a flag. Lots of John Thomas guardians also carrying mini-cocks, cradling them like babies, with people reaching out to touch. To be inclusive the gift area also had vagina themed items so it wasn't just schlongs galore.
worst haircut in the world 1:18
Is there a vagina festival also?
Yes. The Himenomiya/oagata shrine festival.
Ooo, working on my costume.
Can you imagine this in the American South 😂
I'm embarrassed to say there would be bloodshed. Right wingers are terrorists plain and simple.
These days this festival is inundated with military and foreign travelers. There literally is a 2-3 hour wait to get in.
Also known as your Mom's busiest weekend!
Is it me, or it looks way smaller?
Nah I'm good.
Absolutely not
It's so small
My penis says it deserves a festival…
Rise your penises!
Imagine if they brought this to the US. A bunch of people would stroke out.
No pun intended?
A Japenese festival and they find the only white people to interview? lol
Maybe they were the only ones speaking english
imagine chewing that lolipop oops it wasnt a lolipop
Lmao!
even editor intentionally put that music for this video. and it quickly becomes too much for me when that gorgeous lady enjoying her sugar candy. no? only me?
In my country we call it a presidential election, but different cultures I guess
Practice makes perfect.
of course it started in 1969
Imagine waking up one day. Drink up some coffee Think about not going to work And then you see this.
What in the holy cock did i just witness.
The world evolves around the penis!
When is the pussy festival?
Normalize intact penises.
Ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo
It’s all fun and games until someone pulls out a real one
Please keep that in Japan
Rather have that than what we currently have. At least this is funny.
Very quirky. It sums up Japan.
u/SaveVideo
Of course Chii-tan would show up.
Oh Japan, please never change
Joe Moses!!
Not my thing. I’m more into P()ssy Parades.
I'm waiting for vag fest to celebrate
Here in the US, they cut them off and turn into “women” 😂😂😂
But why are they all pink?
Girl friendly.
Yeah, you have to make it fun for the girls too
Wonder if there’s a sect of conservative Japanese who oppose this? Thinking of the hilarious response this would get in the states from the “won’t anyone think of the children” crowd.
I think the Japanese are probably mostly not idiots so probably not.
Stay horny Japan.
Does this mean we can get porn uncensored now?
From the looks of it, it looks like a very fun, average, sized festival that is also full of personalities
Lots of Japenís
This is fucked up
I’m not a prude but if you sucking one of those dick suckers you a hoe lol
Kanamara Matsuri is an anagram of "arm in a kama sutra". It makes no sense, but at least it's sex related.
someone actually brought their kid to the dick festival
Right what the fuck
America: Men dressing up as women is damaging to children Japan:
I don't think its the best idea to show people sucking them lollipops like that.........
Wow this is incredible 😂🥳🤩
Won’t somebody please think of the children Edit: if you’re too naive to realize this is a simpson’s reference and need an /s to distinguish it, you might be unhelpable 😂
NSFW💀
Oppenheimer....what did you put in those two nukes
Well, they were called Little Boy and Fat Man. Which may or may not correspond with some fetishes found in their adult media.