42-year-old Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi was just doing what any curious person with a 3D scanner would do by creating a CAD file of her genitalia, but when Tokyo police found out that she was distributing those scans to the 30 backers of her crowd-funding campaign, she was taken into custody for violating obscenity laws.
See, the artist, who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko (Japanese for “good-for-nothing girl”), creates elaborate vaginal sculptures that she hopes will demystify the female genitalia. In her largest work to date, she embarked on a fundraising effort to construct a 2 meter long kayak shaped like her vagina (video below). And, as part of the campaign, backers of the “pussy boat” were to be rewarded with 3D printable CAD files of her genitals. As a result, she was arrested for breaking an obscenity law in Japan. Though this law is usually used to prohibit the distribution of uncensored pornography, it’s worth noting that pornographic images of children are still allowed in manga and animated films, according to The Guardian.…
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