Walking down the narrow streets of the Born district of Barcelona, I came across this in a storefront.

My curiosity, and perhaps my previously latent homoerotic tendencies, led me into the store.

I thought that perhaps the stone penises were the result of the great castration of the Vatican, where in 1857 Pope Pius IX neutered statues in order to make them more modest.

¿Dónde está pene? (translation: Where is your penis?). The clerk, a young, pretty girl, giggled. She then explained that the stone penises, like all the art in the store, were recreations by an artist.