Snow is a wonderful plaything. You can sled in it, throw snowballs, build snowmen, and construct snow forts.
You can also make giant snow penises. Of course, not everyone is down with phallic snow structures, so if you mold a 7-foot-tall sex organ, you have to be prepared for some complaints. Especially if you’re a 16-year-old boy and the snow penis is in your parents’ front yard. That sort of tomfoolery flies on college campuses, not in the quaint neighborhoods of Elyria.
The Chronicle Telegram reports on one young Michelangelo’s anatomically correct model, which probably left whatever sourpuss who complained feeling a little less than manly:
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2011.
I still fail to realize how a part of the body is considered offensive. There is no lewd act being presented. People need to lighten up. We live in a society that over sensationalizes sexuality but shelters itself from it. If we communicated, understood, and realized that sex is not only a fact of life it is the reason we are here today this nation could maybe move forward. But yet we spend time, energy and tax dollars for the police to investigate what misdemeanor to charge this “offense” with. We need to grow up.
When was the last time you laughed, laughed until your stomach hurt? That’s all he was trying to do, make us laugh.
Glad the sculpture wasn’t wearing sweatpants.
Maybe if he’d have sculpted it in a flacid state, people wouldn’t have gotten a rise out of it.
Anyone who called the cops on this is a big pussy.
I can view phallic symbols in bridges across our nation, paid for by the public, but a penis that will soon melt (think of the art influence in that) is offensive?
Probably an ex-girlfriend (“I do NOT want to see a PENIS!”). Worst girlfriend ever.
This was an annual tradition at my college–I built it myself once or twice. And it was the militant lesbian feminists who would go into a tizzy.
He should have added a garbage bad condom–then he could claim it was a PSA for safe sex!
Don’t let yourself think for a minute you live in a FREE AMERICA. You are all CONTROLLED by the government.
If I had a dollar for every time a giant snow penis caused trouble for me……….yeah, i’d have 0 dollars.
Feminist women are afraid of a man’s penis.