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Thread #66453   Message #1105870
Posted By: Mr Red
31-Jan-04 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Sexual eye candy
Subject: RE: BS: Sexual eye candy
Bill D

There are numerous milestone size obelisks on the side of Japanese roads which are reputedly or overtly, unmistakenly Phalluses. They are religious in some way and quite old often. I had a book on the subject a few years back.

Of course the Phallus was a good luck symbol to the Romans, and can be found carved in the wall at Pompeii and on the bridge abuttments at Corbridge in Northumberland. There are instances of them with wings - possibly at the site of a bordello.