Penis Blog

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is staging "Oedipus Rex". They have come up with a hard-to-miss marketing program.

After four weeks of intensive sculpting and fresco painting following a month and a half's worth of heavy construction involving several local contractors and UAF's own engineering departments, the Art Department and Theatre UAF have completed a 39 and a half foot (39' 3" to be exact) functional mockup of a human penis.

Visible from the majority of upper and lower campus, the penis is set to star in the upcoming presentation of "Oedipus Rex."

"With the climax of the play, we needed something to properly represent Oedipus' struggle for order in an order-less world. Then, whoop (gesturing two parallel lines running upward with both arms), it comes to me. 40-foot penis," said "Rex" director Anatoly Antohin. "And I couldn't be more happy with the results."