Dick Festival Japan Kanamara Matsuri

  

 Kanamara Matsuri Celebrating penises is a real thing. And while Westerners are still being shy about it, the people of Kawasaki, Japan.The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. According to Japanese legend, sometime during the Edo period. there was a sharp-toothed demon who fell in love with a beautiful woman. The woman, however, didn’t return the demon’s affection and decided to marry another man. Angering the demon, he inhabited the woman’s vagina before their wedding night and when they tried to consummate the marriage, the demon bit off the groom’s penis with his razor sharp teeth.

 When the woman remarried, the jealous demon once again made his feelings clear by biting off her second husband’s penis. Deciding that enough was enough, the upset villagers concocted a plan to trick the demon. A local blacksmith forged a steel phallus and upon its insertion, the demon’s teeth were broken and he left the woman’s vagina for good

 Sometime thereafter the legend was commemorated by way of the Kanamara Matsuri and the enshrinement of the actual steel phallus at Kanayama Shrine, constructed to honor Kanayama Hikonokami and Kanayama Himenokami, the Shinto deities of childbirth and lower abdomen health.

Local priest  said: ‘If young children are not used to seeing (male genitalia), they could get into a bit of a panic when the time comes.
‘People come to pray for good fortune and to ask the gods to protect them. The festival is steeped in the past but has still has a valuable part to play in modern society.’