Okay, now my mind is stuck. I did a google search on “phallic water tower”, and the top hit is a reference to the Ypsilanti structure. Apparently it won an informal contest and was dubbed the most phallic building in the world.
Disturbingly, there were a lot of really solid hits on this query. Many people have written about this previously, and now I’m one.
There was, however, only one response to the “image search” on the same query. Compare and contrast with “happy baby” or “cute kitten.”
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