- from The Penis Book
[2. National Penis Day (New Zealand)]
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| People of the town of Komaki, about 250 miles south of Tokyo, celebrate a fertility festival called Hounen Matsuri each year on March 15. The mile-long processional route to the shinto shrine of Tagata Jinja echoes with the sounds of bamboo flutes and the chant, "Hoh-sho, hoh-sho!" of men carrying this giant, erect and obviously intact penis. It was carved from a single cypress tree trunk by a 90-year-old man, and is is offered at the shrine as a symbolic prayer for hounen, a fruitful year of abundant harvests and growth for all living things.
- from The Penis Book |
The wooden penis can be identified as intact from the two ridges of unfolded foreskin behind the corona glandis.
National Penis Day was celebrated in September 2002 and 2003 as a promotion of safe sex awareness by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. The Foundation itself got in trouble in 2002 with a signboard showing men's torsos with visible penises.
The biggest event was a promotion by a Christchurch radio station that gathered a number of men - and a much larger number of observers - in Cathedral Square.
Clearly, most young New Zealand men are not circumcised.
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