"Hi, We're Here to Experience the Whale Penis."

I don't know exactly how to put this....
In these sensitive, politically correct, paranoia-filled times of ours, I don't want any bold generalizations by me to be misconstrued as racist. So let me just say this: Asians fascinate me.

Take this story for example: It's a fairly cool little bit of news that you would find tucked away in some newspaper or on some news site's side webpage labeled "obscure news" or something. In Taiwan, a sperm whale that had washed up on the beach, exploded on the flat bed that was transporting it through the city.

"The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.
Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails."

Pretty cool. Even includes a semi-gross picture of the streets run red. Nothing special though. Maybe you move on and don't think about it again until you're at the beach next summer. Maybe you forward it to a friend or two who would like that kinda thing...
Nope, not this story. In the last two paragraphs, shit gets all weird, or should I say, gets all Asian. The story was over, then out of left field:

"Once moved to a nearby nature preserve, the male specimen -- the largest whale ever recorded in Taiwan -- drew the attention of locals because of its large penis, measured at some five feet, the Taipei Times reported.

"More than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to 'experience' the size of its penis," the newspaper reported."

And just like that, the article is over. I have more questions than before I began.