The Washington Post
Last year, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi rowed across Tokyo’s Tama River in a kayak created from a 3-D print of her own vagina. The purpose of her project, CBC News reported, was to confront the county’s taboos regarding the female form.
But once she started distributing data that would allow others to print her genitalia in the same way, Tokyo police said no, claiming she was violating Japanese obscenity laws.
The 42-year-old artist, who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko, meaning “good-for-nothing girl,” was arrested this week after e-mailing the data to some 30 people who responded to a crowd-funding campaign to finance her kayak, the Guardian reported.
There was also a Daily Show segment about this. John Stewart pointed out that there is a town in Japan that celebrates penises with a parade of giant phallus through the streets. Just don't make a vagina kayak.
