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| Megumi Igarashi |
A Japanese artist, Megumi Igarashi has
been found guilty of obscenity and fined $3,725(N742, 000) for distributing online files that would allow people make 3D print-outs of her vagina.
Megumi
Igarashi, who goes by the assumed name Rokudenashiko, meaning as
"good-for-nothing girl," was arrested in 2014 and charged with
breaking Japan's strict laws, which prohibit public displays of genitalia. The
data realistically reproduce the shape (of the genitalia) and stimulate the
viewers' sexual desire, said the judge presiding over the case.
Although convicted for distributing the files,
Igarashi was cleared over charges that a 3D-printed kayak she made based on
scans of her vagina also broke the law. The judge decided that unlike the scans
of Igarashi's lady parts, the kayak (very light, slender, usually covered boat that has pointed ends and is
propelled by a double-bladed paddle) did not resemble an actual vagina
enough to arouse the desire of onlookers.
Igarashi clarified that she made the kayak and other
vagina-based artworks to challenge the fact that the representation of
genitalia is taboo in Japanese society.
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