Japanese “Vagina Artist” Is Out Of Jail
I’d like to know what my friend Dee Sushi thinks about this: Megumi Igarishi, known as the Japanese “vagina artist,” has been freed from police custody after a week in jail following her arrest on obscenity charges. The 42-year-old sculptor and illustrator, also known as Rokudenashiko, which translates to “Good-for-nothing girl,†launched a crowdfunding campaign online to build a kayak in the shape of her genitals. But despite Japan’s prominent pornography industry, it still forbids the public depiction of actual genitalia. And after raising 1 million yen ($9,865) via crowdfunding, she was arrested last Saturday for “distributing data that could create an obscene shape through a 3-D printer,†a police spokesman told AFP. In a statement issued after her release on Saturday, Igarashi responded: “That was an unjust arrest. I don’t think my genitals are obscene.”
