No Toys, No AI, Just Stretched Penis and Scrotums: Puppetry of the Penis Celebrates a Ten-Year Run In Las Vegas

“Look ma, no hands.” could be twisted (and in this case, twisted is the right word) into a “Look ma, only hands” when it comes to what the salacious shape shifters manage to perform nightly in the “Puppetry of the Penis” show. Crossing the world as it has now (originating in Australia) this unique 75-minute live performance is presently celebrating a tenth-anniversary residency at Las Vegas’ Erotic Heritage Museum.

“It’s a milestone, to be sure,” a museum rep says about the two-man show that runs Thursday through Sunday at the EHM’s Jewel Box theatre. “But in a town like Las Vegas, where there are so many choices for naughty and fun entertainment, not to mention popular band residencies, for PoP to have survived this long just shows was great a fit this kind of show is for the EHM and how much people really to take to good clean naughty fun.”

The Initial Erection Of PoP

Creating twelve of his favorite penis ‘installations’ for a highbrow art calendar in 1997, Australian Simon Morley eventually staged a live show of what he took to calling the “Australian Art of Genital Origami.” Realizing further live performances needed another two hands on deck (at the very least) Morely enlisted David Friend, and the pair debuted “Puppetry of the Penis” at the 1998 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

An eight-month tour of Australia commenced, but the world beckoned for penis and scrotum folding, and soon ‘PoP’ hit London's West End. To date, Puppetry of the Penis has managed to stretch itself across stages in New Zealand, the UK, Europe, Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Argentina.

No Toys, No Problem

In a true ‘do it yourself’ performance, the pair of men who work their puppetry nightly do not use any sex toys or specific contorting apparatus to bring about shapes like ‘the pelican,’ ‘the Eiffel Tower,’ ‘the hamburger,’ ‘the windsurfer’ and others. Standing naked before their audience, wearing just sneakers and capes, the puppeteers run through approximately 45 genital manipulations, accompanied by sound effects and their hilarious commentary. There is even audience participation in the show.

As with other performances, the flagship show of PoP at the EHM features a warm-up or 'fluffer' comedian to start the proceedings.

The EHM

Housing more than 24,000 square feet of permanent and featured exhibits, Harry Money’s Erotic Heritage Museum champions the wonders of erotic imagination as depicted through artistic expressions of sex and love. Scouring the world for its exhibitions, as well as providing a space for events of all types, the EHM

provides the Las Vegas community—tourists and residents both—an oasis of ever-enticing, always-challenging, and quite often uniquely comedic theatrical entertainments like no other, on or off the famous Las Vegas ‘strip.’

The Future of Stretching Cocks and Balls

If its unprecedented global run is any indication, not to mention a decade entertaining folks in Las Vegas, it seems people will be coming to see penis and scrotum making for a long time to come. And just maybe, this is indeed what the world needs now more than anything else.

Stretch on…