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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsO.M.G. So hilarious. Japanese artist 3D printed her vagina then expanded it to 2 meters to
make colorful kayaks. She did this to protest Japanese taboos about female genitalia. She has now been arrested under Japan's obscenity laws.
what hypocrites. Japanese celebrate the penis once a year with a big parade (Kanamara Matsuri) but vagina shaped kayaks are a no-no. Give me a break.
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/07/japanese-artist-arrested-after-3d-printing-her-vagina.html
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)RKP5637
(67,107 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Response to Eleanors38 (Reply #25)
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bluesbassman
(19,372 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)it would make a good duck-hunting boat.
Years ago, I interviewed members of the performance & dadaist art band the Uranium Savages (one of the oldest on-going bands in Austin). They informed me that a protest was lodged when a member danced across the stage as a 6-foot penis. The critic termed it discriminatory to women. Next show, the band member danced as s 6-foot watch spring souffle, and all wrongs were made right.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I clicked on the subject line of your reply, hoping it was a comment about the boat.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Perfect!
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yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I guess this comes with the boat, on purchase.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Are the day you buy it. And the day you sell it.
Hmmmm.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)I hope this young lady is vindicated and her kayak sales soar.
Thanks for the thread, snagglepuss.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)Sounds more like something China would do.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)a pic shows up of a woman rowing her own vagina merrily down the stream. I hope she wins her court case. If they hadn't arrested her this would never had been the story it has apparently become. She has accomplished what he intended. I hope she doesn't have to pay too high a price.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I mean, that country produces boatloads of *Johnny Carson voice* wild, wacky stuff!
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Bizarre, I know.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)reach around?
Ba dum *chh*
redqueen
(115,103 posts)It predates the current obscenity laws by a very long time.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)But I've read about the other theory elsewhere. I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Kind of hypocritical, isn't it?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)cognitive dissonance?
rateyes
(17,438 posts)turn it into a hot dog stand at the beach.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)I'll make sure I'm not there. j/k - sort of.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)SCHEDULING YOU FOR ASS KICKING FOR YOUR PENIS 3-D SELFIE FRANCHISE OFFER; yes INDEED
rateyes
(17,438 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)betsuni
(25,484 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)my name is Johnson.
ballabosh
(330 posts)There's always money in the banana stand.
trof
(54,256 posts)Oh of COURSE I watched it.
ALL the 'naughty bits' were pixeled over.
Go figure.
There was a pedestrian bridge from the hotel, across a major thoroughfare, to a major railway station.
The side rails were festooned with 'stick-it' type notes with photos and contact info (in Japanese) for prostitutes.
I framed my bathroom mirror with them.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)Some people's brains work in mysterious ways.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Jerry442
(1,265 posts)"Expanded" seems to have a subtly different meaning.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)That is an extremely large hole.
Dr. Strange
(25,920 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)The drawings she holds up to explain the project are not obscene but may be NSFW.
Likewise, she consistently uses Japanese vulgar slang-terms rather than vagina and these are translated exactly.
http://6d745.com/en-campfire/
(Note both the vagina-charm bracelet and the rainbow vagina pendant.)
betsuni
(25,484 posts)and pussy boat. Pussy boat? Wait ... I thought pussies didn't like water.
mettamega
(81 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)think about it.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)by the First Amendment.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)kayak.
littlemissmartypants
(22,655 posts)That's all I got.
kath
(10,565 posts)The vagina is INTERNAL. The female external genitalia comprise the vulva, which includes only the opening of the vagina.
I really wish people could get this straight. It's really not that complicated.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)I knew that Volvo makes cars & trucks, but a Vulva making a boat? This is good news.
-app
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)Extends significantly below the water line and ends with a cervix (which would be pretty weird for a normally pretty shallow kayak, and would then make it a 3D rendering of a vulva AND a vagina), I see only a vulva with the usual vaginal opening ( with the addition of the fore and aft points of the typical kayak hull)
as someone else mentioned, the vagina is a muscular tube, and unless occupied by something - penis, speculum, sex toy, baby, etc - that tube is closed, with its walls touching each other.
A useful article http://www.livescience.com/36516-facts-women-vagina-health-myths.html. See especially the first "fact", defining the vulva, and the 7th, about the clitoris.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)That bugs me as well. It's not difficult to tell the difference. I wish the media wouldn't willingly reinforce ignorance.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...in this one, unlike the giant stone one in Germany. This is much more artistic than the woman who pushes out paint balls.
And the poster above is entirely correct in her terminology - given that the actual vagina itself is an open muscular tube, I don't think you can 3-D print a hollow space. You might, however, be able to make a rubber casting of it.
I have been to one of the fertility festivals in Japan. It took place during the winter ice and snow carving festival in the far northern city of Sapporo. I was wandering around looking at all the exquisitely detailed carvings when I notices several Japanese men wearing parka and no pants. I had to stay to find out what was going on. They shed their parkas, at which point I could tell they were wearing sumo-type loincloths. 8 guys hoisted a giant wooden penis up onto their shoulders, while the rest of the group began to chant and paly drums. I will never forget it.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)A country that allows people to sell used women's underwear in vending machines draws the line at vulva-shaped kayaks?
OY VEY...
Rex
(65,616 posts)So what is all this stuff or am I blind?
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)And given that color, I doubt if I'd have recognized what it was a model of.
The Japanese who are prosecuting her must not have any sense of humor. Or awareness of hypocrisy.
librechik
(30,674 posts)too much unintentional racist humor?
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)In fact, it doesn't look at all like a vagina.
libodem
(19,288 posts)And gals have privates. I hope the artist catches a break and she isn't punished for her creativity and anti-authoritarianism.
She is the kind of person I'd pick for a friend. I hate the eestablishment. Always have.