The BBC news and RT reports that:
The arrest on obscenity allegations of a woman who makes art based on her vagina has sparked debate in Japan.
Tokyo-based artist Megumi Igarashi, 42, was arrested on Saturday for sending data that could be used to create 3D models of her vagina.
She had sent it to people who had donated money for a project to make a vagina-shaped kayak using a 3D printer.
The kayak in question seems quite inoffensive but concept has definitely riled people.
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(Score: 1) by Nollij on Sunday July 20 2014, @03:12PM
She's the man in the boat!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:54PM
This kayak just don't compete, with a mons veneris, visible from low-Earth orbit:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/18/qatar-accidental-vagina-stadium-al-wakrah-world-cup-stadium [theguardian.com]
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 21 2014, @02:08AM
Indeed, what about it?
I think a certain Russian street art performance [france24.com] as a more appropriate term of comparison - be it only that the authors meant to send a message (too bad the meaning is lost for some or many).
Further references: movie clip [youtube.com] - background [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Solaarius on Monday July 21 2014, @02:28AM
Was expecting to see a big pink canoe!
(Score: 3, Funny) by lx on Sunday July 20 2014, @03:19PM
Maude Lebowski is suing the artist for plagiarism [youtube.com].
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Sunday July 20 2014, @03:40PM
What the hell is people's problem with the human body? This is just data about the human body (well, effectively the same as a digital photograph). Do they get offended when they or their spouse see them naked?
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:39PM
Japan has anti indecency laws forbidding the display of the genitalia. While this may pass for art in the US, free speech and indecency laws are obviously different elsewhere. While I wholly understand why she should be allowed to craft art derived from 3D models of her vagina and profit from the perverts that buy it, but I can also understand why people be opposed to this type of art as it typically appeals to perverts.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by BasilBrush on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:35PM
Huh? What's perverted about liking vaginas? I mean, gimp suits, or tentacle penetration graphic novels, OK. But there's nothing abnormal about liking vaginas. We'd die out as a species pretty quick if they weren't pretty popular.
As to Japan, they are in the big league as far as strange fetishes are concerned. And probably quite a lot of that is down to their censorship of genetalia. Such as the afore-mentioned tentacle penetration graphic novels.
Hurrah! Quoting works now!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @07:41PM
Tentacle porn predates the anti-indecency laws by quite a bit. This [wikipedia.org] famous picture dates from 1814. There are a lot of possible reasons why the Japanese are known for having strange fetishes, from being nuked to the generally repressive nature of their culture. I'm not sure if it can be boiled down to a single thing as being responsible.
(Score: 2) by hubie on Monday July 21 2014, @02:48AM
You are attributing strange sexual fetishes to having atomic weapons dropped on you??
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 20 2014, @08:55PM
A lot of Japanese porn work around restrictions by superimposing a tiny black strip over the genitalia, that often doesn't even cover the whole genitalia. Perhaps she should have placed a single strip of black tape over her kayak, censoring it enough to be legal by Japanese standards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @09:16PM
> And probably quite a lot of that is down to their censorship of genetalia.
There is a pop-culture theory that bukake was created and popularized as a result of that censorship. That since they couldn't show uncensored penetration they went with an extreme form of non-penetration.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hopdevil on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:52PM
I would wager women would be just as interested in a vagina shaped canoe as anyone. People that view and appreciate vagina art are not/should not necessarily be perverts.. it's a symbol of the modern feminist movement. In fact, I would argue that is exactly the point Megumi Igarashi is trying to make; when you make something more common (less demonized, or whatever) then society can accept it as normal, however the government in Japan insists their society have a taboo around the vagina.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:34PM
Where's the link to the data; submitter?
I want the data!
No don't ask why.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Theophrastus on Sunday July 20 2014, @06:04PM
how's your Japanese? [6d745.com]
yet, at least, i see no links to obvious STL or AMF files there (perhaps if my spider recursed more than 2 links down, but i think i'm less in need of this data than others might be)
(Score: 1) by goodie on Monday July 21 2014, @01:58AM
Well, thanks to that link I now know how mechas in Gundam reproduce. Thanks SN! ;)
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday July 21 2014, @03:02AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @03:44AM
How awesome would that be if she released her pussy under a Creative Commons license?
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday July 21 2014, @05:58AM
I think that a Creative Commons vagina would compliment the principle of the Open Boobs Project [scalzi.com] quite well. However, I have niggling reservations about licence compatibility.
Full disclosure: I am a contributor to the Open Boobs Project and GPL projects.
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