Hundreds of sex toys have been spotted hanging from power lines across Portland, Oregon.
The white and orange objects have appeared above major commercial streets around the city, but their origin remains a mystery.
Locals have been sharing images online, to try and figure out who might be responsible.
A spokesman for Portland General Electric said he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard.
Portland resident Lucila Cejas Epple said that she first encountered the sex toys at a neighbourhood street fair over the weekend, according to Reuters.
“You could spot them in several intersections and you could see all sorts of reactions to them,” she said.
“Some would blush, others would laugh, and most would take photos.”
The first sightings were reported late last month – but more have appeared in recent days.
Earlier this week, we learned that someone in Portland, Oregon, has been hanging hundreds of dildos from the city’s power lines. On Thursday, VICE heard from the person responsible for the phallic prank, who says it’s part of a much larger sex-toy offensive and that she plans to continue tying together the rubber penises and tossing them around town.
“We’re nowhere near done,” said the 20-something dildo-distribution artist, a recent college graduate and retail worker who asked not to be named in part out of concern that police might not appreciate the prank—and in part because she doesn’t want her name to be forever linked to sex toys on the internet.
Two leading online rumors—that a sex toy store was responsible for tossing their discarded dildos around town, and that a documentary filmmaker did it as part of a publicity stunt—are both false, according to the dildo mischief maker.
“It had to be done. I have no idea why, but it had to,” she told VICE. “Dick-tossing is an exercise in happiness. It was just a fun, hilarious thing to do.”
She claims she and a group of friends came into possession of more than 10,000 rejected dildos and other sex toys from a commercial manufacturer that was unable to sell them thanks to a design flaw.
If you have a bunch of sex toys lying around, what better use could they serve than decorating the city? “I’m still laughing about this,” she said.
The dildo campaign apparently started with white and orange toys because they were the easiest to toss. The alleged prankster also showed us a photo of bright purple toys, which have not yet appeared on the Portland power lines. Butt plugs may also appear at some point—once her group figures out a few logistical snags.
All joking aside, the woman who claims to be behind the prank said her motives weren’t entirely juvenile. “I think people should be more comfortable talking about sex and sex organs,” she said. “A lot of people own sex toys. This shouldn’t be an embarrassing thing to see in public.”
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