The debate about censorship and women's rights in Japan has been reignited after an artist who made a canoe modelled on her vagina was arrested for the second time on obscenity charges.
Megumi Igarashi - who works under the alias Rokude Nashiko which translates as “good-for-nothing kid” or “reprobate child”- faces up to two years in prison after Tokyo police arrested her yesterday for displaying figurines modelled on her vagina and distributing digital data used to build a yellow kayak based on her genitals.
She is accused of sending a link that shows her plan to create a boat "using three-dimensional obscene data" to a large number of people.
Igarashi was briefly held by police earlier this year for trying to raise funds through a crowdfunding website for the construction of the canoe which she calls her “pussy boat”.
source : the independent
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