Oooooh, I'll bet everyone is going to read *this* blog.
For those who don't know (and I imagine that would include all of you -- and me before I came to Bhutan), the biggest (figuratively speaking) good luck charm in Bhutan is the phallus. You might think that such a charm might be carried in one's pocket, as the Japanese are/were wont to do. Or perhaps it would be tucked under a pillow, or hung on a door frame.
No indeed. In Bhutan, the phallus...hmmmm...the penis, actually, is displayed in all of its anatomically correct, erect, and immense glory on the facades of the houses. Imagine a billboard-sized penis with semen spewing out the top.
As our group of 16 middle-aged hiker/cyclists pulled into Paro and came eye-to-eye with our first Bhutanese penis, a symphony of tittering erupted from the seats of our van. You'd think we were a bunch of high school kids, when in fact we were a bunch of staid professionals with penis envy.
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Do they have a special day in celebration of "John Holmes", the favorite movie star of Bhutan?
ReplyDeleteThe tour book photos I saw must have overlooked that "part" of Bhutan - I could now make a bad pun about "Butt and ....", butt I won't
Boy, "tittering" and "penis" - they go together!
Sometimes I keep mine in my pocket, but I'm going to sew those pants the next time I wash them, I swear.
ReplyDeletehow weird!!!
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