What NOT to buy on Cyber Monday: plastinated bull penis jewelry

Yes, that's what I said - Gunther von Hagens has a gift shop, and he's selling earrings and necklaces made of slices of equine and bovine genitalia. Don't like ostentatious, plastinatious penis jewelry? There's always a bull penis vasculature walking stick.

I had to blog these, but honestly, I didn't really want to know they existed at all.

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