{"id":3976,"date":"2016-01-28T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrugstore.md\/articles\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2018-11-30T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:41:29","slug":"penis-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/penis-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at That, It’s a Mall Shaped Like a Penis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/span>celand’s penis-shaped mall withstands hard times and continues to thrive. It’s the country’s largest and most unusual shopping center by far.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By DAN SEITZ<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there’s one thing we can safely say about Icelanders, it’s that, for some reason, they’re obsessed with the penis.\u00a0 They have the world’s first, and we hope only, phallus museum<\/a>, and then there’s this mall, better known as Smaralind, which is . . .\u00a0phallic<\/em> in construction, to say the least, as you can see in the accompanying photo.<\/p>\n

It gets better: it’s also the biggest<\/em> mall in Iceland. Yes, Iceland’s monument to consumerism is also an enormous penis.\u00a0 We’re thinking that maybe the cold weather and long nights kind of get to you after a while.<\/p>\n

Brainchild of the Baugur Group<\/h3>\n

This particular erection (as in \u201cbuilding\u201d) got started more than a decade and a half ago with the Baugur Group. A huge investment company, Baugur spent a fortune in the first decade of the 2000s buying up various fashion brands by essentially borrowing lots of money and buying companies on credit, mostly clothing stores from the United Kingdom.\u00a0 This probably isn’t the first time a phallus-obsessed group has shown an unnerving interest in women’s clothes, but definitely the first time it manifested in financial markets.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Baugur bought brands like French Connection and Saks, crown jewels in the fashion retailing world.\u00a0 And, proud of what they’d put up, they wanted a place in Iceland to show off all their fancy stores, not to mention sell a lot of clothes, since they were leveraged to the eyeballs.\u00a0 Hence Smaralind, the Penis Mall, was built.<\/p>\n

The idea was \u201cthree floors of entertainment,\u201d which, if you think about it, it really is, just not in the way they meant.\u00a0 In addition to fashion shops, it had all the features of any good mall: live music venues, a good movie theater, and coffee shops. The idea was that you’d enter and spend the whole day buying their clothes, watching movies, and not pretending that you were in \u201cFantastic Voyage\u201d and had accidentally been injected into the urethra by mistake.<\/p>\n

So, plans were drawn up, shops rented, and a building built, all without anybody at Baugur, who we remind you were actually paying for this thing, glancing at the blueprints at any point and saying \u201cYou know, that looks a bit like a penis.\u00a0 Maybe we should fix that?\u201d\u00a0 As for the architects, they are either incredibly naive, or very, very good at keeping a straight face, because they claim the shape is entirely unintentional.\u00a0 In no way, they claim, did they ever intend to put an enormous penis smack in the middle of Iceland’s capital city.\u00a0 Nobody won 20 bucks on any sort of bet they could pull this off.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the Baugur Group, the market went soft and they collapsed, and the Penis Mall was sold off by their creditors.\u00a0 Fortunately for the rest of the world, the Penis Mall is still open and still operating, and ready to sell you clothes and the latest of Iceland’s fine products.<\/p>\n

For all the ridiculousness of its architecture, Smaralind is actually a fairly serious mall.\u00a0 In addition to the Icelandic chains nobody outside of Iceland has ever heard of, it’s got stores like H&M, Body Shop, Levi’s, and Ecco. \u00a0Even better, it’s still in operation: the Penis Mall is ready and willing for any business it can get.\u00a0 So come over to Iceland and visit.\u00a0 Just be sure to leave a tip.\u00a0 You can find directions at Smaralind’s official website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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