This is good. It’s not as great a documentary as some, but it had a much more interesting core than I expected.
The museum collects donations of penises from nearly everything. Everything is well preserved, there are plenty of different displays. The curator is an interesting guy, but he seems serious and driven to make his museum as comprehensive as possible. There is a single specimen missing - a human penis. The problem is that people need to legally make the donation before they die, since human remains are typically treated specially.
An Icelandic icon in his 90s agrees to donate his. A younger American agrees to make his. To sweeten the deal, the American is interested in actually donating his before he dies.
From there, the story gets more interesting. There are issues with both donors. There’s a minimum of five inches required to be the human specimen. The old man is having some issues, because he’s shrinking as he ages. The American is enthusiastic about the process, but… the longer we spend with him, he’s a very peculiar guy. He corresponds with the curator constantly, and seems overly focused on talking about his penis. He takes pictures of it in costumes. He has this elaborate plan for how it should be displayed. He decides that he wants it to be a patriotic kind of thing, so he actually has the head of his penis tattooed with a variation of the American flag.
The ending to the story isn’t quite as fulfilling, but it’s still an interesting story, and I think it treats the subject matter appropriately.
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