Good news: Iceland’s penis museum finally gets its hands on a human specimen
We’re not sure which news is the most disturbing – the fact that Iceland has a penis museum or that someone donated their organ to it.
The Associated Press has the flaccid facts:
In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country’s most bizarre museums.
This is either Iceland's penis museum or Iceland's hat rack museum. We're not sure which.
Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason’s organ will help round out the unusual institution’s extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.
Hjartarson should be glad he lives in Iceland. If the museum were located in a warmer climate, he’d need a larger erection…uhhh…facility for his penises. Shrinkage, you know.
Highlights of the museum’s collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an “unusually big” penis bone from a Canadian walrus.
Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls “phallology” began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull’s penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts.
“That was how it started. I opened this museum 15 years ago with 62 specimens,” he said. Now, with the addition of Arason’s organ, he has 276, many suspended in formaldehyde or dried and mounted on the walls.
If we’re not mistaken, this is the world’s largest collection of dicks outside of the United States Congress.
Largest collection of dicks outside of the US Congress? Nope, that would be the European Parliament in Brussels (or whatever they call their dick collection). Besides, we all know that the US Congress may be full of dicks, but there appears to be damn few balls. Already donated?
Oh, the things that qualify as science these days... it's this kind of thing that makes me want to major in History as opposed to Biology.
I wonder if that place has a gift shop.
"I wonder if that place has a gift shop."
Who's going to walk down the street with a gift bag that says "Penis Museum" on it?
I don't know, but there are some weird folks out there; if someone in the universe is willing to found a museum of penises, there are plenty others who will risk walking around with a bag labeled "penis museum". I certainly would, if just for laughs.
Of course, that's me speaking as a teenager, not a rational being.
Speaking as a teenager who loves biology, I think it would be hilariously cruel to honeymoon in Iceland and take the groom to this museum...
Barney Frank?
A penis museum is something you'd expect to find in San Francisco rather than Iceland.
They tried it in SF but they kept disappearing from the display for some reason.
It's hard to maintain your romantic sangfroid after your date has seen a whale penis.
Speak for yourself, Junior.
;-)
Which reminds me, that looks like a casting of my sangfroid in the foreground of that picture.
Wonder who made the mold...
Long ago, as a young Boy Scout, I learned some Indian lore. One of the things I learned was that Indian braves loved to shoot bucks while they were mounting does, because then they could chop off the erect male members and use them to beat their squaws. Apparently, not only did this implement leave no permanent marks, but there was valuable visceral symbolism involved...
True story, I swear.
Wow, so I guess this is what it means to have a Boehner (sp)!
"colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts."
I'm sorry, that just doesn't seem like a normal gift you can get at the local Hallmark store. Piggly Wiggly, maybe. Or Safeway, where they would all come pre-wrapped.
But stay away of the "Tastee Inn & Out" restaurant, and I hear the spring Bobbit collection has been cut off from their supplier.
Thank you, that is all.
"If we’re not mistaken, this is the world’s largest collection of dicks outside of the United States Congress."
Since we have so many women in Congress now wouldn't it be more politically correct to say "the world's largest collection of dicks and dickettes" instead? Maybe not. The dickettes have nothing to contribute to the museum when they are gone.
How strange, as a conservative christian and of course "homophobe" I find myself strangely aroused by this place.
Oops, my spell checker doesn`t recognize "homophobe" must not be a real word.
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Largest collection of dicks outside of the US Congress? Nope, that would be the European Parliament in Brussels (or whatever they call their dick collection). Besides, we all know that the US Congress may be full of dicks, but there appears to be damn few balls. Already donated?
Oh, the things that qualify as science these days... it's this kind of thing that makes me want to major in History as opposed to Biology.
I wonder if that place has a gift shop.
"I wonder if that place has a gift shop."
Who's going to walk down the street with a gift bag that says "Penis Museum" on it?
I don't know, but there are some weird folks out there; if someone in the universe is willing to found a museum of penises, there are plenty others who will risk walking around with a bag labeled "penis museum". I certainly would, if just for laughs.
Of course, that's me speaking as a teenager, not a rational being.
Speaking as a teenager who loves biology, I think it would be hilariously cruel to honeymoon in Iceland and take the groom to this museum...
Barney Frank?
A penis museum is something you'd expect to find in San Francisco rather than Iceland.
They tried it in SF but they kept disappearing from the display for some reason.
It's hard to maintain your romantic sangfroid after your date has seen a whale penis.
Speak for yourself, Junior.
;-)
Which reminds me, that looks like a casting of my sangfroid in the foreground of that picture.
Wonder who made the mold...
Long ago, as a young Boy Scout, I learned some Indian lore. One of the things I learned was that Indian braves loved to shoot bucks while they were mounting does, because then they could chop off the erect male members and use them to beat their squaws. Apparently, not only did this implement leave no permanent marks, but there was valuable visceral symbolism involved...
True story, I swear.
Wow, so I guess this is what it means to have a Boehner (sp)!
"colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts."
I'm sorry, that just doesn't seem like a normal gift you can get at the local Hallmark store. Piggly Wiggly, maybe. Or Safeway, where they would all come pre-wrapped.
But stay away of the "Tastee Inn & Out" restaurant, and I hear the spring Bobbit collection has been cut off from their supplier.
Thank you, that is all.
"If we’re not mistaken, this is the world’s largest collection of dicks outside of the United States Congress."
Since we have so many women in Congress now wouldn't it be more politically correct to say "the world's largest collection of dicks and dickettes" instead? Maybe not. The dickettes have nothing to contribute to the museum when they are gone.
How strange, as a conservative christian and of course "homophobe" I find myself strangely aroused by this place.
Oops, my spell checker doesn`t recognize "homophobe" must not be a real word.