Photos from annual penis festival,Japan

An annual festival held to celebrate PENISES has been held - and hundreds have gathered to see enormous phalluses parade the streets.

Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, aka the Festival of the Steel Phallus, sees giant manhood-shaped shrines take over streets in Kawasaki, Japan.

Held every year, the event sees visitors coming from far afield to watch parades .

The event, which started in 1977 at theKanayama Shrine , celebrates the male appendage and fertility .

                     

                    

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