Published: 22 Jun 11 14:10 CET | Print version
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While most Swedes look forward to dancing around a traditional maypole this Midsummer, one group of gender-conscious revellers is pushing Swedes to celebrate the holiday by gathering around a vagina instead, contributor Lina Sennevall discovers.
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Silly. Back to the serious business of earless, tailless frogs...
most men I know will gladly dance around a vagina as long as it is not attached to a queer person who does not share!
Seriously?! Could he GET any more whiny and childish? It's a FERTILITY symbol, and no matter which way you swing the only sex that's gonna make a baby is vaginal sex. Facts of life, deal with 'em.
This looks like a serious story, but it could be a great gag article for The Onion too. What a great joke! :)
(If you don't know what The Onion is, it's a news satire newspaper, and website too.)
quote of the century
As for Chamberland, what a freaky killjoy. No doubt, he is the life of the party.
And like others already have pointed out the pole is a fertility symbol. Another thing to point out for these weirdos is that it is the earth whom is the mother for crying out loud (ever heard of the expression "mother earth?)! But oh well, try to get babies with the pole stuck up in your behind!
The Pole is nothing more than a Support Device for the Ribbons & decorations you fkd retard.
Why do these Fkd people even get attention.