re: #20 William Barnett-Lewis

Looking closer at the picture, IIRC there is a fertility festival in Japan this time of year with lots of genital shaped objects involved. I doubt there is anything even slightly sinister in anyone’s mind about this in Japan.

Ah, bingo: [Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

I mean, anyone who went to a high church mass for the Easter vigil saw something quite similar when the pascal candle is dunked into the baptismal font.

Cultural ignorance is still ignorance.

I’ve never seen Angry Boys. Could they have just used an image from this Japanese festival?