Thursday, June 21, 2007

No seal of approval

Hmmmm...I wonder how you would procure such an item. On second thought, I don't want to know:
An Alaska man has pleaded guilty to selling more than 100 fur seal "oosiks" -- or penises -- to a local gift shop that intended to sell the items as an aphrodisiac.

Michael Richard Zacharof, an Aleut and former tribal president from the Bering Sea village of St. Paul, pleaded guilty this week to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Federal law forbids the sale of any raw marine mammal parts unless they have been crafted into pieces of Alaska Native artwork.
What possible market could there be for seal penises? I mean, who in their right mind would want something so nasty?
In Zacharof's case, the former tribal leader sold the raw seal penises to a gift shop catering to customers from Asia [my emphasis]. The shop then sold the items for about $100 each, according to the Justice Department.
But of course. Is there any disgusting animal part that isn't considered an aphrodisiac somewhere in Asia?

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