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Posted on Jan 4, 2011
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Bhutan, that tiny, idyllic country nestled between China and India, has a thing for male genitals. However, an influx of tourists and their prudish ways threatens the ancient art of penis worship, the Global Post reports.

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Since tourism is a major source of income for Bhutan, Prime Minister Jigme Thinley announced earlier this year that Bhutan aims to triple the number of tourists by 2012.

That’s potentially bad news for penis worship. That’s because some here worry the influx of tourists to this isolated Buddhist oasis is already weakening the essence of Bhutan — namely its relationship with the omnipresent phallus.

The decline of the phallus is especially evident in “urban Bhutan,” a term locals insist is not an oxymoron.

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By purplewolf, January 6, 2011 at 2:22 pm Link to this comment

Leefeller: Better not tell your priest, it might be just the sign from above he is looking for to continue with the altar boys.

richard roe: “how in the world do these people who are so uptight about anything sexual ever breed?”

They must force themselves to preform the sexual act as God demanded that they go forth and by fruitful. Strangely, these same “uptight” people usually the fundies and other ultra religious have a ton of kids like the Duggar family. So even though sex is bad, they must do as God commands.

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By reynolds, January 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment

this article should be perceived as the bat signal to
go right young man and his boy wonder rico, suave;
calling all dicks.

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By Lafayette, January 6, 2011 at 10:13 am Link to this comment

And the Washington Monument is…....? 

A masonic symbol with a pyramid at the very top. Also, very evidently a phallic symbol. In fact, DC is full of masonic symbols.

There are more than a few theses that Masonry, at its heart, is the study of hidden meanings in numerous sexual symbols. Not being a Mason, and therefore not “initiated”, however, I cannot say.

But others do. Read here for an interesting reflection upon the “hidden meanings” of Freemasonry.

Nothing like sex to liven up a blog!

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By peterjkraus, January 6, 2011 at 8:51 am Link to this comment

C’mon, McDonald’s! In Bhutan, the time is ripe for a
McDick or a Dickwich. Let’s see some innovation here.

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By richard roe, January 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment
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Yawn. 

Penis art is common in Greece, Italy, and Bali. Some temples in Nepal & India are covered with erotic carvings…

If tourists want to see nothing different from where they live then they should simply stay home.

How in the world do these people who are so uptight about anything sexual ever breed?

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By tchina, January 5, 2011 at 5:27 pm Link to this comment
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And the Washington Monument is…....?

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By gerard, January 5, 2011 at 4:49 pm Link to this comment

We’ve freed ourselves without much urgin
from modern adulation of the virgin

but who dares to try to ween us
from our ancient envy of the penis?

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By Psychobabbler, January 5, 2011 at 4:32 pm Link to this comment

I recently erected a piece similar to these, but I was told that it could not be
displayed publicly.

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By Leefeller, January 5, 2011 at 4:20 pm Link to this comment

I find this article so disgusting I am going to report it to my priest.

What is going on with TD, we got the Capitan of the Enterprise taking showers with his crew, Mr Fish demeaning the president of the Untied States (using the word United loosely here) and this article on a thousand penises, next we are going to see a video tape of the Virgina monologues!

Me thinks TD is becoming like the Huffingsposty! (not really)

This article makes me think of Congress,  but so does a skunk!

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By Michael Cavlan RN, January 5, 2011 at 1:47 pm Link to this comment

Queenie

What did Jefferey Dalmer say to Lorena Bobbitt?

Hey, ya gonna eat that?

LOL

Ewwwwwwwwww

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By projectpeace, January 5, 2011 at 1:09 pm Link to this comment

only a thousand?

I heard that number had gone up…

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By projectpeace, January 5, 2011 at 1:08 pm Link to this comment

they really oughtta try to get a handle on this…

it’s going to change the unique and colorful way they dance the hoki-poki in
Bhutan for sure.

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By Josh, January 5, 2011 at 12:52 pm Link to this comment
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They’re marketing it all wrong. They should brand
themselves as the gayest hotspot in the world.

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By purplewolf, January 5, 2011 at 12:31 pm Link to this comment

Love the title for this article, taken from the hit song of the 1960’s Land of a Thousand Dances by Cannibal and the HEAD HUNTERS. oh yeah.

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By purplewolf, January 5, 2011 at 12:28 pm Link to this comment

What’s the big deal. Roughly half of the world’s population has one and most of the republicans are one.

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By Leefeller, January 5, 2011 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment

For some reason it remands me more of previous vice president Dick!

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By berniem, January 5, 2011 at 11:53 am Link to this comment

Perhaps a Bhutanese artist can be commissioned to render the official White House portrait of our former Vice Pres.!

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By Jim Yell, January 5, 2011 at 10:08 am Link to this comment
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The penis was regularly referenced in art and religion of Western Europe until the foreign influences of Christianity intruded on our culture.

Everything from lamps to street corners were decorated with “dicks” in profusion. Get over it.

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By projectpeace, January 5, 2011 at 9:47 am Link to this comment

How long will Bhutan be able to keep this up…?

Culturus interruptus is just around the bend…

Somebody please get a “Hands off my junk” shirt for Bhutan’s President

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By aacme88, January 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm Link to this comment

Rather than gutting one of the things that makes Bhutan Bhutan, the tourism industry might consider just putting out the word that this isn’t just like every other place you’ve ever visited?

Nah, that would just put everybody off.

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By Queenie, January 4, 2011 at 9:28 pm Link to this comment

When Mrs. Bobbit threw her husband’s penis out the car window to get rid of the evidence, she misjudged her aim and it landed on the windshield of the car in back of her.

The two nuns who were in the other car saw a big SPLAT on the windshield and one of them asked,
“What kind of a bug was that?” The other nun replied,
“I don’t know but did you see the size of the dick it had?”

I couldn’t help it. Those pictures reminded me of so many funny jokes. I tried to tell the cleanest one.

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