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    Are the "male genitalia" festivals that continue throughout Japan a vulgar "bad custom"? When asked why they do it, the priest of one such shrine said “the purpose is world peace”
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    Are the “male genitalia” festivals that continue throughout Japan a vulgar “bad custom”? When asked why they do it, the priest of one such shrine said “the purpose is world peace”


    Are the “male genitalia” festivals that continue throughout Japan a vulgar “bad custom”? When asked why they do it, the priest of one such shrine said “the purpose is world peace”

    https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/309517700b77169b12a611ae4347c2cfca496841

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    2. CatsianNyandor on

      I personally think they go way against their own obscenity laws, tradition or not. Not that I’m generally against displays of genitalia at all, but there’s some hypocrisy involved. Wonder what the same people would say if they’d carried a giant vagina around. Would they be okay with it?

    3. samsg1 on

      I’d argue that less celebration or focus on penises would make the world a better place.

    7. Mammoth_Maize_1424 on

      I mean isn’t it basically body positivity? Nude bodies aren’t inherently shameful, before Christianity came to Japan bath houses were separated by Men / Woman because there wasn’t anything shameful seen about it, Christianity brought the idea of shame and sin around bodies.