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The Virgin Mary and Sex Toys: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together?!



In the summer of 1917, in a little town in Portugal, the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three shepherd children over a series of five months, telling them secrets and the details of their own deaths and how to bring about world peace -- that last one an especially important sentiment at the time, especially in Europe where World War One was raging all the closer. Thousands upon thousands of devout Catholics flocked to the site in pilgrimage, and to this very day it is a consistently popular travel destination.

Now, as everybody knows, nothing goes better with Catholic miracles than creatively marketed vibrators, so thankfully some advertising agency was able to rub a couple brain cells together for the sake of giving us this little gem, just in time for the 90th anniversary of the vision's first appearance.

Pilgrims to a holy shrine in Portugal are being given free maps of the site that show the Virgin Mary on one side and adverts for sex objects and aphrodisiacs on the other.

The maps, thought up by an advertising company, have raised eyebrows among the Catholic faithful and ire from the authorities at the popular Sanctuary of Fatima.

"The map is not official and makes the wrong use of the picture of the Virgin Mary," a shrine spokeswoman said on Friday.


Personally, I am dying to know what they mean by "the wrong use of the picture of the Virgin Mary," but so far no one is coughing up pictures. Ten dollars says whatever shop decided to go for broke with these maps was hoping for some free publicity, but sadly the joke is on them: try as I might to dig for information, not a single article has mentioned their name.

 

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MrSeeds

mrseeds

Austin, TX
April 2006

MAY 15, 2007 12:11 AM

Untimely said:

VaugelyChilly said:
How long would an image of Buddah smiling away in front of a giant neon sign saying "vibrating love eggs 1/2 price" last on Mt. Hiei-zan?



I think that depends on how much the Buddha image costs. Possibly also on whether or not the love eggs were any good. Are they Shinto love eggs? Are there chickens inside?

For the record, many sects of Buddhism don't really get bothered by this sort of thing. The image of Buddha is just an image -- something to be inspired by, but still just an image.
Images aren't important; The Path is important. The motivation and intent of some person and their love eggs isn't really something to get flustered about when there's so much other suffering in the world.

Now I'm going to go get funky with a vibrating, golden, love calf. Because I can.



yessssss! kill the buddha!

Matthew_O

Matthew_O

Los Angeles, CA
December 2006

MAY 15, 2007 01:54 AM

Lycoris said:
This looks like a job for Divine Interventions!



Beautifully Blasphemous!

If I was a chick...or gay I guess...I would be so down to own one of those.

Nea

Nea

New York, NY
October 2006

MAY 15, 2007 04:28 AM

wow.

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

MAY 15, 2007 07:13 AM

'The Virgin Mary and sex toys'

Oh come on, you reckon when they found a load of these in Lost and Sawyer was captured by the others, the girls didn't think about it?
They're just the right shape and size...

Nokturn

Nokturn

United Kingdom
April 2006

MAY 15, 2007 07:17 AM

VaugelyChilly said:
How long would an image of Buddah smiling away in front of a giant neon sign saying "vibrating love eggs 1/2 price" last on Mt. Hiei-zan?


Not long. Everything is impermanent.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

MAY 15, 2007 09:20 AM

speaking of divine interventions, i'd like to collect a creche entirely made of sex toys.

Oren

Oren

United Kingdom
January 2006

MAY 15, 2007 11:30 AM

Lycoris said:
This looks like a job for Divine Interventions!



Oh my gooooooooooooooooooddddddd...!

hor

hor

USA
June 2005

MAY 15, 2007 01:10 PM

TheComebackKid said:
dear god we are all going to hell




I'll be bringing the potato salad and Zima.

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