DAY 28: SPIRITUAL SUNDAY
A Penis Altar

The phallus was openly venerated in many cultures. We in the modern West erect more subtle shrines to the phallus, such as the Washington Monument.

In ancient Egypt, Japan, and Greece, among other societies, the phallus was a fertility symbol. The Romans wore phallic-shaped jewelry as talismans to ward off the evil eye. In India, the god Shiva is still often represented by a phallic symbol known as the lingam. And every year National Penis Day is celebrated in Japan.

Suggestions for your penis altar:

• Statues of Priapus, fertility god and son of Aphrodite, and other Greek and Roman phallic symbols

• Brass trinkets—key chains and small figures of men with outsize erections—from African and Indian shops

• Drawings, paintings, or sketches of the penis

• Candles, incense, small bud vases for flowers

• If you don’t want obvious phallic symbols, display a lingam, which looks like a round piece of sculpture with a flat bottom, like a pillar candle more than a cock. You can find nice ones in marble, brass, and wood. Surround it with the candles, incense, and flowers.

• No matter what anyone says, a man wants his cock worshipped, and women who worship the cock get what they want in the end.

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