O.M.G. So hilarious. Japanese artist 3D printed her vagina then expanded it to 2 meters to

[snagglepuss]

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]

1. Man in the boat jokes incoming 3...2...1

[RKP5637]

2. For sure ... n/t

[jberryhill]

10. Well, the captain is supposed to go down on his ship...

[Eleanors38]

25. That doesn't make a lick of sense.

[bluesbassman]

3. Brings a whole new meaning to "what ever floats your boat". n/t

[riderinthestorm]

4. Its bright yellow. She sure didn't want anyone to miss it!

[Eleanors38]

5. Save for the jaundiced color & lack of natural camo

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]

19. It's all good, tho, isn't it?

[Eleanors38]

22. Ha! Where did Japan get such laws?

[CTyankee]

23. who cares? I just like the little boat. Don't you?

[Eleanors38]

26. Yep. She's probably hunting diver ducks.

[CTyankee]

27. or maybe liking the ride...seems pleasant to me...

[jberryhill]

41. would be a good beaver boat, though.

[Eleanors38]

47. I'll have to chew on that.

[jberryhill]

40. so relieved....

I clicked on the subject line of your reply, hoping it was a comment about the boat.

[Eleanors38]

46. Brazil loses twice.

[PeaceNikki]

6. Good for her! I love her smile!

[CTyankee]

20. love the kayak!

Perfect!

[yuiyoshida]

75. Interesting promotional material...

I guess this comes with the boat, on purchase.

[redqueen]

7. Ha, love it!

[Boom Sound 416]

8. They the two best days of boat owning

Are the day you buy it. And the day you sell it.

Hmmmm.

[bunnies]

28. ...

[Mnemosyne]

9. K&R for more visibility. nt

[Uncle Joe]

11. These contradictory Japanese obscenity laws do seem hypocritical.

I hope this young lady is vindicated and her kayak sales soar.

Thanks for the thread, snagglepuss.

[mimi85]

51. Extremely hypocritical is right!

Sounds more like something China would do.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. picture yourself, in a boat on a river...

[rateyes]

13. Just when you think you've seen it all...

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]

14. Japan has obscenity laws?!?!

I mean, that country produces boatloads of *Johnny Carson voice* wild, wacky stuff!

[nomorenomore08]

64. Part of the origin of "tentacle porn" was to get around obscenity laws banning images of genitalia.

Bizarre, I know.

[Arugula Latte]

67. So it was sort of a ...

reach around?

Ba dum *chh*

[redqueen]

68. That is not true. Tentacle porn has been around for hundreds of years.

It predates the current obscenity laws by a very long time.

[nomorenomore08]

72. That is also true. There's the famous painting of the "fisherman's wife" and a giant squid(?).

But I've read about the other theory elsewhere. I don't think they're mutually exclusive.

[Hissyspit]

71. Yes, the land of obsession over prepubescent girls.

Kind of hypocritical, isn't it?

[nomorenomore08]

73. Not just hypocritical, but downright schizophrenic. How do people live with that level of

cognitive dissonance?

[rateyes]

15. Maybe I will 3D print my penis, enlarge it and then

turn it into a hot dog stand at the beach.

[Eleanors38]

24. I thought you were gonna ask her out.

[mimi85]

31. Let us know which beach so

I'll make sure I'm not there. j/k - sort of.

[rateyes]

34. I might sell franchises.

[Skittles]

38. OK THAT'S IT

SCHEDULING YOU FOR ASS KICKING FOR YOUR PENIS 3-D SELFIE FRANCHISE OFFER; yes INDEED

[rateyes]

39. roflmao

[mimi85]

50. +1000%!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

42. Anthony's Weiner Wagon? nt

[betsuni]

45. Johnsonville hot dogs?

[rateyes]

66. That's even funnier because

my name is Johnson.

[ballabosh]

59. No! Gotta be a banana stand

There's always money in the banana stand.

[trof]

16. I lived in a Tokyo hotel for a few weeks. There was a porn channel on TV.

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]

17. Lol

Some people's brains work in mysterious ways.

[KittyWampus]

18. Great thread title. LOL

[Jerry442]

21. Didn't you mean to say "enlarged"?

"Expanded" seems to have a subtly different meaning.

[bunnies]

29. Well....

That is an extremely large hole.

[Dr. Strange]

36. Or maybe engorged?

[Chan790]

30. If you haven't seen the Campfire video she used to fundraise for this, it's amazing but odd.

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]

49. So cute: pussy bedding, a pussy car, pussy lampshade

and pussy boat. Pussy boat? Wait ... I thought pussies didn't like water.

[mettamega]

33. great design :-)

[certainot]

35. most rw media won't mention this because they can't say the word vagina, or even

think about it.

[Pharaoh]

37. I would love a ride in her vagina!

[Warren DeMontague]

60. You and this guy.

[Nye Bevan]

44. I am very thankful that I live in a country where vagina-shaped kayaks are protected

by the First Amendment.

[nomorenomore08]

65. For once we agree wholeheartedly...

[lpbk2713]

48. We all live in a yellow ...

kayak.

[littlemissmartypants]

52. Of kayak born.

That's all I got.

[kath]

53. Actually, she didn't 3-D print her vagina, but her VULVA.

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]

54. I knew that Volvo makes cars & trucks...

I knew that Volvo makes cars & trucks, but a Vulva making a boat? This is good news.

-app

[Nye Bevan]

56. Ummm..... you can actually sit inside the kayak (nt)

[kath]

61. Well, yeah, obviously. But unless the opening we see on the top of the kayak (where she is sitting)

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]

69. Thank you.

That bugs me as well. It's not difficult to tell the difference. I wish the media wouldn't willingly reinforce ignorance.

[3catwoman3]

55. Well, at least it doesn't look like anyone would be likely to get stuck...

...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]

57. OBSCENITY LAWS?

A country that allows people to sell used women's underwear in vending machines draws the line at vulva-shaped kayaks?

OY VEY...

[Rex]

58. Sounds like discrimination, what about the festival of the penis?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/japan-penis-festival-kanamara-matsuri_n_5106378.html
So what is all this stuff or am I blind?

[pnwmom]

62. Of course it's discrimination. Japan is misogynistic, so this is no surprise. n/t

[pnwmom]

63. It's actually kind of cute.

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]

70. I wish she had chosen some other color besides fluorescent yellow

too much unintentional racist humor?

[MineralMan]

74. Looks more like her vulva to me.

In fact, it doesn't look at all like a vagina.

[libodem]

76. Guys have publics

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.