Megumi Igarashi found guilty of obscenity over 'vagina kayak' artwork
A Japanese artist who is known for creating a vagina-shaped kayak has been found guilty of obscenity by a Tokyo court.
Megumi Igarashi, who also uses the name Rokudenashiko, or “good-for-nothing-girl,” has been ordered to pay a 400 yen (£3,560) fine for distributing digital data from a scan of her vagina which could be used to make a realistic three-dimensional replica of her genitalia, the court ruled.
Ms Igarashi was arrested in December 2014 for displaying small figurines modelled on her vagina and for distributing digital data of her vagina.
The figurines were a set of three vagina-shaped ornaments painted in bright colours and placed on display at a sex shop in Tokyo, but were not for sale. As the ornaments were not painted in a skin tone or immediately resemble a vagina they were not deemed to be obscene by the court.
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