Followup: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/tokyo-based-artist-arrested-for-3d-printing-her-vagina/?ncid=rss

They talk about it so infrequently that they don't even know what a vagina is. That is a mold of her labia; getting a mold of her vagina would be a little more invasive!

Not that Europeans and Americans use the word correctly, either.

I knew that I was being disingenuous about the mailing thing. I didn't know about vagina parades.

I liked the headline though -- even at the expense of one fact (didn't know it was two facts.)

Thanks for providing the whole story.

Just so it's clear, if a dude scanned his junk and sent it to people he'd probably be arrested too. Article 175 of the Japanese legal code prohibits the distribution of "indecent" materials which has traditionally been interpreted to mean "porn" and that's probably how the police are viewing this case--as porn distribution.

Also, those penis parades are fertility festivals and they have vagina counterparts. Do a Google image search for "Hime no miya matsuri" and prepare to have your mind blown at the complete lack of hang-ups Japanese people have about genitalia.

Therefore, it's basically a legal issue, not a cultural one. Because Japan's constitution technically does not allow censorship (Article 21) this lady might have a case if she can convince the courts that she's engaged in art and not commerce. Then again, the courts here are total crap shoots and I sometimes think you'd have a better chance of finding justice in some 3rd world kangaroo court than the Japanese court system.

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Why does the west ruin everything? Can't even send vaginas anymore.

This is a great thing, and it will really help break down the barriers to women that exist in motorsport. It was a real shame that Deputy Team Principle Claire Williams tried her best to mess up the message on Sky TV in the build up to the weekend. The Sky team had got a goalie and a goal set up by the side of the track and were getting all the drivers to try to take penalties, some of them really good others couldn't kick a ball for toffee. Claire Williams gets interviewed, the only woman there and her reply when asked to take a penalty was 'I can't do that, I'm a girl...'

Of all the people to say that. A woman in a serious role in a top level F1 team which is trying to help promote women in motorsport. Some of the male drivers asked to take a shot made excuses but just had a go, but she wasn't even prepared to do that and the reason was that she's got a vagina.

I hope Susie Wolff gave her a right good smack when she saw it.

Yeah, it's impolite for complete cunts who work for an indoctro-infotainment corporation to make fun of the mentally-challenged, right? Even if they are complete and utter dickheads and a public nuisance. This story is like watching two assholes sharing their 15 minutes together with flapping goat-vagina for mouths.

For ohlalasassoon though, it is San Fran, and this guy most likely did this because he knows that 9 times of ten he'll get completely;y away with it. Bet granny's hat it was premeditated.

That's your vulva ladies.

Your vagina is the internal passage leading to the cervix and uterus.

Your video, These Women Are About To See Their Vaginas For First Time, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 9 Badge!

yea beacause condoms are a 100 percent.

fuck off ya jack weiner.

the only 100 percent way not to get a vagina seeded is to not fuck a vagina.

ABSTINENCE AND GOD. That is all ALL walking baby incubators need to know. HOW CAN A WOMAN BE SO DAMN IRRESPONSIBLE AS TO SPILL SPERM INTO HER INSIDES. DAMN WOMEN, IT IS ALL THEIR FAULTS.

NO YOU IS SPAMMER YOU VAGINA ! (lover)

@ChaosEngine

i guess i was not clear.
so let me clarify.

i was not defending an artists right to discriminate on the basis of:sexual orientation,gender,race,class etc etc.

i WAS,however,defending an artists right to refuse a commission on their own personal grounds (whatever those might be) and they could do it without making a big deal about it.no need to be specific WHY you refused the commission.just that you wont be able to do the job to the best of your ability and that maybe joe-artist down the street could serve you better.

so you may find darkhands analogy trite and contrived but the basic heart of his comment is true.if his heart aint in it you are gonna get crap as a result.

being an artist for hire is nothing like owning a bagel shop or selling t-shirts.

if i aint feeling it...
i aint doing it.

if you want to project that i refuse because you are gay,or because their is a vagina involved..well..thats on you.
my reasons are my own.
i may share those reasons with you,i may not but i have that right to refuse the commission.

and the artists who DOES share a reason of homophobia or sexism is just dumb and probably not worth hiring anyways.

as for calling out artists who "whore" themselves.
i wasnt thinking of artists who accept money for the work they do.we all have to eat brother and if i used your example,each and every one of us are whores in one capacity or another.

i was actually thinking of the artists who lend their pen,brush,camera and instrument to create propaganda videos,commercials etc etc.

basically anyone who would sell their integrity for a buck.

most excellent commentary on my "wars of aggression" video.

god if i had a vagina i would so fuck you

"The chickens were apparently a reference to a 2010 stunt carried out by Voina, a radical art collective to which some Pussy Riot members previously belonged, in which a participant stole a whole raw chicken from a supermarket and inserted it into her vagina."
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/20/pussy-riot-tour-of-sochi-protest-winter-olympics