Mar 12 2012

Got Wood?

This past weekend the Hodare Festival was celebrated in Niigata Japan.  If you’ve never heard of this, let me bring you up to speed.  It’s a fertility festival that dates back to the 17th century and done to help fertility and bring good marriage to new couples by touching a giant wooden penis.  Did I not mention that yet?  Sorry, guess I should have mentioned that first.

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