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Phalluses
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Some phalluses, displayed in public
places can have attention, either positive or negative. |
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Phallus in St. Petersburg |
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The Russian art collective
Voina is nothing
if not anti-establishment. They have staged such stunts as a hurling live
cats at McDonalds
workers, engaging in a full-on orgy in a state museum, and shoplifting a
raw chicken from a store by hiding it in one member's vagina (yes, you
read that right). Voina has faced persecution for their action "Palace
Revolution," for which they overturned several police cars in the center
of St. Petersburg — reportedly while police were actually inside the cars.
The latter stunt landed two members of the group in jail.
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But now, the Russian
establishment has recognized the group with the
Ministry of Culture
and the
National Center for
Contemporary Art's
"Innovation" award, one of the country's highest honors for contemporary
art. The particular project being celebrated, "Dick in FSB Captivity," was
a piece that involved painting a 210-foot outline of a phallus on a
drawbridge facing the the headquarters of the state security services
(formerly known as the KGB).
When the drawbridge was raised, the penis appeared to become erect.
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According to
the New York Times,
the seven-member prize jury was originally opposed to awarding the prize —
which comes with 400,000 rubles (something like $14,200) — to the
controversial group, but was swayed during extended deliberations by three
advocates of the group. In the Times' summary, the arguments put forward
included this gem: "the penis had already gained such a wide audience via
the Internet that ignoring it would also be making a statement."
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Teenager
paints 60ft phallus on roof of family home
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Rory McInnes, 18, climbed on to
the flat roof of his parents' home and daubed the symbol using a tin
of white paint, after watching a programme about Google Earth.
Web surfers can view detailed
images from satellites using the Google software, enabling them to
zoom in on their homes to see them from above.
But parents Andy and Clare did
not discover their son's rude artwork until a helicopter spotted it on
top of their home near Hungerford, Berks.
The pilot called The Sun
newspaper, which then contacted Mr McInnes to tell him.
Mr McInnes, 54, a company
director, thought the newspaper was having a joke.
He said: "It's an April Fool's
joke, right? There's no way there's a 60ft phallus on top of my
house."
However,
when he asked each of his four children if there was indeed the image
of a phallus on their newly-completed roof, Rory owned up.
When Mr McInnes phoned his
son, who is currently in Brazil on a gap year, the teenager said: "Oh,
you've found it then!"
The boy's father appeared to
take the prank in good humour.
But he said: "When Rory gets
home he will be given a scrubbing brush and white spirit and he can go
and scrub it off."
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High school phalluses |
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Crop circles might
be known for their beauty and paranormal allure,
but the giant phalluses etched into the field of a New Zealand high
school hold no such mystique. Fairfield College, in the North Island
town of Hamilton, has been snapped by satellite cameras with six huge
penises burnt into the grass. "At first I thought it was a large piece
of artwork," he said of the shot, which shows cartoon-like phalluses of
various sizes, some several metres across. It happened over a weekend
but it wasn't until the grass died off bit by bit that phallic symbols
started to pop up around the school grounds. Every week another crude
image revealed itself, much to the dismay of staff. "There's not really
much we could do about it," he told the newspaper. "The caretaker took
some more weedkiller and tried to camouflage it a bit." Kiwis however,
thought the prank was hilarious, with 70 adding mostly encouraging
comments to the online story, like "Freakin brilliant!!! Love it!!!
Classic piece of adolescent artwork." One gave the artists an A+, top
marks for cunning, planning, chemistry and geometry, while another said
their anatomy detailing left a lot to be desired.
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New Zealand's very own Cerne Abbas
giant - or Uffington White Horse, if you prefer - is located on some
grass at Fairfield College in Hamilton. It's comprised of six giant
phallic symbols in total, with two particularly large ones standing out.
Gerhard van Dyk, acting principal at the school, said he plans to contact
Google about the images, potentially viewed by millions of web users, to
see if they can be changed. According to a spokesperson for the search
company, the shots came directly from satellite pictures, unlike Google
Street View images which can be blurred for privacy reasons. |
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Hazleton, Pennsylvania |
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Google recently upgraded
their northeastern Pennsylvania images -- and now you can see the penis
vandals created on high-school football field in Hazleton. The
Standard-Speaker wrote about this in a story that will undoubtedly make
it's way through the Internets. |
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Confiscated phallus |
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It happened to Jason Hadlow,
resident of North Yorkshire, England. He had this glorious garden phallus
decorating his shop window when some puritan neighbours of his complained.
the polices came along and gave him an 80 pound fine and confiscated his
phallus. |
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Jason Hadlow, owner of Simply Dutch
at Leeming Bar, has been issued with a public order offence and will face
a fine if he wants to reclaim the garden ornament.
Jason recently received a new range of garden furniture including a four
feet penis-shaped obelisk which went on display in Simply Dutch’s window
at the end of March.
Following complaints from local people, North Yorkshire Police visited the
store, removed the offending ornament, worth in the region of £200, and
issued Jason with a public order offence for ‘displaying a sign or item
liable to cause harassment, alarm or distress.’
Jason must now pay £80 by Friday 9th April to retrieve the item from
Northallerton Police Station, or could face court action. However, the
entrepreneur, from Yarm, is refusing to back down stating that the phallus
is in keeping with Simply Dutch’s quirky ethos and has even started a
‘Free Willy’ campaign in store and on Facebook.
Jason said: “The world is a crazy place and I'm sure the local
constabulary has better things to do. It’s just another example of
overzealous policing and I couldn’t believe they were serious. We might
have had one or two complaints but most of the customers loved it as they
know what Simply Dutch is like and the type of things we stock.
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He has formed a campaigning group,
Free Willy, to protest against the confiscation. |
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Fined for phallus bush |
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A keen gardener was stunned
when police threatened him with a fine for a public order offence -
because a bush in his garden was shaped like a phallus.
Haddenham resident Ian Ashmeade first pruned a bush in his garden into a
phallic shape in 2002 after noticing the plant was growing into a similar
shape naturally.
For years, passers-by and locals have chuckled at the shrub in his garden,
in Linden Way, but police received a call from someone who was offended by
it. Cambridgeshire Constabulary warned Mr Ashmeade to reshape the bush or
face an £80 fine.
“A policeman came around to my house and told my wife that someone had
complained about the topiary and that if I didn’t do something I would be
facing an £80 fine, The topiary was in its pruned state for more than
eight years. Why somebody has taken offence to it now I can’t understand.
I think it is very sad.”
He has since trimmed it back into the shape of a pea shooter after he was
crowned ‘world pea-shooting champion’ at the annual pea shooting
championships in Witcham this summer.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire police said: “Officers received a
complaint from a member of the public regarding the shape of a shrub.
Officers went round at the weekend and asked the man to change its shape
or he would be fined for a public order offence.” |
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Ohio Police Classify Phallic
Snow Sculpture As Disorderly Conduct
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A phallic snow display in
Ohio was short-lived after police told a 16-year-old boy to remove a
seven-foot-high snow sculpture emulating male genitalia from his front
yard, reports the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. Police classified the offense
as “disorderly conduct.” Roman King said he got “car honks with people
giving us the thumbs up,” from drivers while it was standing.
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Elyria Police Chief Duane
Whitely said it was the first time he had ever heard of a complaint
concerning such a sculpture, and after some research, said it would likely
fall under disorderly conduct. “It’s obviously an offensive structure,”
Whitely said. He said it was unlikely to fall under public indecency laws
because “public indecency has to do a lot with the human body.” No charges
or citations were issued, and the frozen phallus fell after being chopped
down with a snow shovel.
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Penis Man
Disrupts Spa Graduation
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A man dressed in an inflatable 6-foot
penis costume disrupted graduation ceremonies Thursday morning at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, running across the stage as diplomas were
being awarded to graduates of Saratoga Springs High School.
Calvin Morett, 19, of 337
Pyramid Pine Estates, who graduated last year from the school, was charged
with disorderly conduct, a violation. He was released on his own
recognizance, and is due to appear in Saratoga Springs City Court on
Tuesday, likely without his costume.
Morett tried to outrun
security officers and police but his bulky costume hampered his escape. |
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NORTH COUNTRY
GAZETTE on Thursday, 26 of June , 2008
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An unknown person went into the sculpture garden of the Art
Gallery at the University of New England on the night of June 17th and
hacked off the penis of a two-foot high clay sculpture that was on
exhibit.The culptor, Munjoy Hill artist Nancy Nevergole, had been asked
the previous day to remove the sculpture. Nevergole discovered the
vandalism when she arrived to remove the sculpture. The statue was part of
the annual
Sculpture Garden Invitational held at the UNE gallery. The
missing piece has not been found. |
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http://thewestendnews.com/ARCHIVES/JUNE2010.html |
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Court:
School's 'Phallic' Sculpture Doesn't Violate First Amendment
Some Say Bishop's Miter
Resembles Phallus
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DENVER -- An appellate court in Denver won't
order the removal of a statue depicting a clergyman with a bishop's miter
-- or ceremonial hat -- that some say is offensive because of its phallic
appearance. A student and faculty member filed a lawsuit after the statue
-- titled "Holier Than Thou" -- was installed on Washburn University's
campus in September 2003. |
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POSTED: 10:30 am MDT July
29, 2005
UPDATED: 12:31 pm MDT July
29, 2005
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