60% of J-guys have no girlfriend, the rest are...

[Wage Slave]

I have no idea how obscenity is defined in Japan but in the UK the classic definition is "That which tends to deprave or corrupt" - Therefore a picture in a medical textbook isn't obscene but a very similar picture in another publication might be.

It never worked all that well and then what if the work has literary or artistic merit? Anyway, for the police to be involved in this case on the grounds of obscenity is ludicrous beyond belief. All it does is lend artistic merit to her work which I am not sure it really deserves. But good luck to her anyway.

[matsuki]

Still not as disturbing as the Moebius strips here and there...

What better way to represent traditional Japanese "reasoning." Embrace it...like the rest of the hive

[Mike Oxlong]

[matsuki]

Maybe Japan has has changed their pop decline concerns to hikkikomori who worship the pussy but don't actually get any?

[Russell]

Tokyo vagina artist released by police

A Tokyo artist known for her genital-inspired works has been released from police custody following her arrest on obscenity charges, her lawyer said Friday, in a case that sparked accusations of a clampdown on freedom of expression.

Megumi Igarashi, 42, who calls herself Rokude Nashiko which roughly translates as “bastard kid”, was taken into custody on Saturday for distributing data that allowed recipients to make 3D prints of her vagina.

She was released after her legal team filed an appeal against the detention with a Tokyo court. The court then upheld the appeal, in what the lawyers said was a very rare move as it ruled against the prosecution.

Igarashi, who appeared at a press conference after a week of detention, said she was resolute to exhaust the legal path up to the top court if prosecutors indict her.

“I had no idea why I had to be arrested and detained because I don’t believe my vagina is anything obscene,” she said. “I was determined I would never yield to police power.”

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I still wonder whether the prosecutor had any plans to gather evidence on whether the data she distributed actually corresponds with her vagina. I guess it is a moot point now.

[Yokohammer]

It's a really good thing that no serious crimes are committed in Japan so the police have all the time in the world to follow up on this type of moral depravity.

[matsuki]

I still wonder whether the prosecutor had any plans to gather evidence on whether the data she distributed actually corresponds with her vagina. I guess it is a moot point now.

They probably just tried to get a confession

I wonder if they raided her shit, computers and all that.

In related news...

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo vagina artist released by police
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Vagina kayak artist arrested in Japan, again
December 3, 2014 |Tokyo (AFP)
An artist who made a kayak modelled on her own vagina was arrested in Japan on Wednesday, police said, in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship.
Megumi Igarashi, who calls herself Rokude Nashiko -- offensive slang which loosely translates as "reprobate child" -- was arrested in July for trying to raise funds online to pay for the construction of a kayak, using a 3D printer, inspired by her genitals.
She was released days later following a legal appeal and after thousands of people signed a petition demanding her freedom.
But on Wednesday, Igarashi was re-arrested on suspicion of sending a link "that shows her plan to create a boat using three-dimensional obscene data to a large number of people," a Tokyo police spokeswoman told AFP.
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[Salty]

Well of course they just have to arrest her – since after all, she might just tamper with the evidence…. Just wondering here… but maybe if she included pixilation – polka dots maybe?

[Russell]

…she might just tamper with the evidence…

LOL, who doesn't tamper with her/his evidence from time to time...

[Taro Toporific]

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Vagina kayak artist arrested in Japan, again
December 3, 2014 |Tokyo (AFP)

"In case you were wondering, vagina kayak artist Megumi Igarashi is still in custody, 20 days after her arrest."
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201412230021

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[Russell]

In case you were wondering, vagina kayak artist Megumi Igarashi is still in custody, 20 days after her arrest.

Did she not confess already?!?

[kurogane]

I wasn't even remotely curious but that is shocking. What a sad country this can be sometimes.

Isn't she just celebrating pussy? I am no fan of ugly chicks making stupid art (lived too long in Kyoto I think), but it's only art. If Yoko Ono ever comes back I wonder if they will execute that outstanding warrant for the caterwauling from 40 years ago?

[Coligny]

Ok, since we have establusheded that Japan is a Taliban fiefdom, when do they start the carpet bombing ?

Also, can them obscenity laws be used to make the whole Toyota lineup illegal ?

[Russell]

Ok, since we have establusheded that Japan is a Taliban fiefdom, when do they start the carpet bombing ?

Also, can them obscenity laws be used to make the whole Toyota lineup illegal ?

The difference is that Toyotas are modeled after the dicks of the Toyota family, and with that they have one up over modeling after vaginas.

So, nope the laws don't apply there...

[Grumpy Gramps]

the caterwauling from 40 years ago

Still on, the "art" is going.

[kurogane]

Feckin' 'ell, mon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if that wasn't actually some sort of 40th anniversary revival event; a clever journalist that remembered she had boasted back in about 1970 that her music was 40 years ahead of its time asked her 40 years later if she still thought that, and Yoko, uncharacteristically, took it the way her late husband might have: with an impish good humour and a touch of very charming self-deprecation. A shame she had to lose the only reason we put up with her to become likeable.

BTW.........

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I'm still waiting for her definitive reply to my question of whether Apple Records is really named that because she laughed when she found out it was Lennon's band's drummer's name. An old urban myth claims there's a pot of gold for he who figgers it out.

[Isle of View]

I wasn't even remotely curious but that is shocking. What a sad country this can be sometimes.

Isn't she just celebrating pussy? I am no fan of ugly chicks making stupid art (lived too long in Kyoto I think), but it's only art. . . .

There's not rational explanation for her arrest.

My guess is that the bureaucrats that end up supervising the porn pixelation business somehow see her activities as a threat and want to make an example of her.

[matsuki]

I wasn't even remotely curious but that is shocking. What a sad country this can be sometimes.

Isn't she just celebrating pussy? I am no fan of ugly chicks making stupid art (lived too long in Kyoto I think), but it's only art. . . .

There's not rational explanation for her arrest.

My guess is that the bureaucrats that end up supervising the porn pixelation business somehow see her activities as a threat and want to make an example of her.

Her face needs pixelation more than her poon....

Having been asked by J-people on more than one occaision "How can you watch porn without mosaic?!" I can't help but laugh when I here how the population is shrinking

[Coligny]

And for the braziliunz times... How can human body parts be 'obscene'

Obscenity is a behaviour tied to an intent.

If not, your going to have to jail every toddler/grandpa taking a leak on a tree...

[Russell]

Alas, men have begun 3D-printing their penises

"What would happen if I put my penis in it?"

It's a question man has been asking ever since it discovered it was useful in certain situations for procreation thousands of years ago.

But now it has reached an absurd and mildly dystopian conclusion: 3D-printed d*ck pics.

The means? A handheld 3D scanner such as Fuel3D's Scanify above. The method? By pointing it at *any* object and capturing it three-dimensionally. The reason? Who can say.

[...]

And, presumably the results of a very boring afternoon – a submission entitled 'dickongrey2' (first iteration suspiciously absent).

Supposedly NSFW link

The user who submitted it isn't alone either (well, at least in one sense of the word), with a search for 'penis' on Sketchfab bringing up some more detailed efforts.

To use Scanify, one must simply hold the device by its two handles, point it at their subject and slowly move around it. Mapped images can then be shared online or sent to a 3D printer.

Manufacturing replicas of your genitals comes at a price though, with the scanning device alone retailing in the US at $1,490.

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[Yokohammer]

Alas, men have begun 3D-printing their penises

As in ...

"Looks like I'm going to have to be away for a few days Honey, sorry.
Here, this'll keep you company in the meantime ..."



Or perhaps make a good print while it still works?

The possibilities are ... idiotic.

[Russell]

I was more thinking about it making a nice wall decoration for one's office.

After all, it is art...

[matsuki]

Whatever you do, don't build a raft out of dongs...

[Coligny]

n0000000000b...

dong are all a ok... cultural and shit...

only p00nany are instrument of th3 devil... 9this whole planet is soooo retarded... maybe sweden is cool... but I can't trust people living in permacold countries...

[Russell]

n0000000000b...

dong are all a ok... cultural and shit...

only p00nany are instrument of th3 devil... 9this whole planet is soooo retarded... maybe sweden is cool...

Even Sweden has its limits...

[Coligny]

Not its limits...

its idiots...

nut th3 same...

[Mike Oxlong]

What’s Japan’s Problem With Vaginas?
Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi’s vagina kayak is considered obscene,
but an annual penis festival is a family event. What’s the deal?

Artist Megumi Igarashi—known in her home country of Japan as Rokudenashiko ("the good for nothing girl")—is currently awaiting trial for obscenity charges related to selling a 3-D model of her vagina. Yet, Japan is home to a yearly festival that, almost literally, worships the penis.

Featuring video footage courtesy of Alison Klayman, director of the award-winning documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Jake Adelstein and Angela Kubo try to make sense of Japan's confused sexual politics...

[matsuki]

What’s Japan’s Problem With Vaginas?
Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi’s vagina kayak is considered obscene,
but an annual penis festival is a family event. What’s the deal?

Artist Megumi Igarashi—known in her home country of Japan as Rokudenashiko ("the good for nothing girl")—is currently awaiting trial for obscenity charges related to selling a 3-D model of her vagina. Yet, Japan is home to a yearly festival that, almost literally, worships the penis.

Featuring video footage courtesy of Alison Klayman, director of the award-winning documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Jake Adelstein and Angela Kubo try to make sense of Japan's confused sexual politics...

More PR for Japan's great international image! Hilarious that most Japanese still don't understand why all the tourists here are giggling every time they see bukkake rice on the menu.

[Coligny]

Thought it wuz bukake udon ? Le confuzed...