# Banister of Penises **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450 "2009-08-14T21:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/1 "2009-08-14T21:29:49Z")
I recently happened upon this rather suggestive [Banister of Penises](http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=BanisterofPenises.jpg), in a 17th-century Jesuit chapel in Arles, France. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/2 "2009-08-14T21:37:29Z")
Please tell me you slid down it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/3 "2009-08-14T21:41:19Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Please tell me you slid down it. > > Regards, > Shodan Up and down. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/4 "2009-08-14T22:22:04Z")
…bwhah…? Jesuits, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/5 "2009-08-14T22:23:44Z")
How about [these shadows](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/1678020244_3c2ea29dce.jpg?v=0), cast by [Westminster Bridge](http://izismile.com/img/img2/20090417/real_45.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/6 "2009-08-14T23:32:02Z")
I love this one. I want it for my daughter. [http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=umbrella.jpg](http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=umbrella.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/7 "2009-08-14T23:36:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > How about [these shadows](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/1678020244_3c2ea29dce.jpg?v=0), cast by [Westminster Bridge](http://izismile.com/img/img2/20090417/real_45.jpg)? The second one is blocked where I work, for adult content. Pity. You know, this thread reminds me of a recent Disney trip, where I was told to look for “hidden mickeys” in the architecture. And now I’m thinking, if you took a hidden mickey and stretched it . . . ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/8 "2009-08-15T00:28:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I recently happened upon this rather suggestive [Banister of Penises](http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=BanisterofPenises.jpg), in a 17th-century Jesuit chapel in Arles, France. Is a banister of penises like a pride of lions or a pod of whales? ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/9 "2009-08-15T01:11:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I recently happened upon this rather suggestive [Banister of Penises](http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=BanisterofPenises.jpg), in a 17th-century Jesuit chapel in Arles, France. At least you didn’t say “…came across…” ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/10 "2009-08-15T01:33:38Z")
…and then a banister of penises ensued. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/11 "2009-08-15T01:53:31Z")
Wow, it really is exactly what you said. In a chapel yet. What, do you suppose, is the intended meaning of the spikes in between? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/12 "2009-08-15T02:20:57Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Is a banister of penises like a pride of lions or a pod of whales? According to [this book](http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Rhinoceroses-Dictionary-Collective-Nouns/dp/1559210966), the proper collective noun is “a clutch of penes”. It would logically follow, then, that more than one Jesuit bannister would be “a clutch of bannisters”. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/13 "2009-08-15T02:42:10Z")
God must love penises. He made so many of them. Then again, He also made two testicles, in the normal case, for every penis. So maybe He loves testes more than penises. I’m sorry I posted this but I’m gonna do it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/14 "2009-08-15T02:57:17Z")
> [@TheMadHun](#): > > I love this one. I want it for my daughter. [Photo Storage](http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w113/flamingriver/?action=view¤t=umbrella.jpg) I got it at [Pylones.com](http://www.pylones.com/accueil.php?lang=en). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/15 "2009-08-15T02:58:41Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > What, do you suppose, is the intended meaning of the spikes in between? They’re for penis stigmata. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/16 "2009-08-15T08:30:21Z")
How about [buildings](http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/The-Building-That-Looks-Like-a-Penis-2.jpg/) [that](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2362087.html) [look like](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/44239696_8d5eb5b6e5.jpg?v=0) [a penis?](http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/images/vacation-photos-washington-moument-obelisk-penis1.jpg) Or is that too easy? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/17 "2009-08-15T08:32:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > They’re for penis stigmata. I wonder what the contemporary religious landscape would look like if Jesus had been nailed to a tree by his cock… ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/18 "2009-08-15T09:25:43Z")
Long Beach has its very own [penis banister.](http://gazzella.net/DiningRoom.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/19 "2009-08-15T10:47:14Z")
I still think that sounds like a name… “Hello. I am Banister of Penises, great-grandson of the original builder. I will be your guide through the Penises estate. Please come this way.” ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450/20 "2009-08-15T15:46:49Z")
Wow, you weren’t kidding. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banister-of-penises/506450.md?page=2)