...apparently Earth celebrates the Genetalia Festival?

[archangelbeth]

(Whose precise name I am blanking on just now, I fear.)

https://twitter.com/emccoy_writer/status/537420187122032640

With WINGS!

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Note: links impeccably historical but possibly NSFW

[rydra_wong]

Earth has celebrated the genitalia festival for many centuries!

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/bronze_phallic_wind_chime.aspx

(You can't see very well in that photo, but it also has wings.)

Some winged medieval examples:

http://genreauthor.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/flying-penises-of-thje-middle-ages.html

And some more history, including St Augustine being grumpy about festivals in which penises were carried about on trolleys:

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2013/01/07/fascinus-the-winged-phallus-tattoo/

Basically, as a friend pointed out, the evidence seems to suggest that through much of human history, people have looked at penises and thought "that ought to have wings on it". This is a strange planet.

Re: Note: links impeccably historical but possibly NSFW

[archangelbeth]

the evidence seems to suggest that through much of human history, people have looked at penises and thought "that ought to have wings on it". This is a strange planet.

*cracks up, now that she has power back on*

*goes to read the history*