You¡¯ve probably heard of Japanese artist known as Rokudenashiko (¡°good for nothing girl¡°), who was arrested in 2014 for sending the 3-D data of her genitals to patrons of her successful crowdfunding campaign to create a vagina-shaped kayak.
And although the Japanese-language press echoed the police¡¯s description of her as a ¡°so-called¡± artist and orchestrated a public shaming, your reaction was likely to be one of disbelief. That a woman could be arrested in this day and age for such an act ¡ª and in a country where sexually explicit manga and imitation-vagina sex toys are sold at convenience stores ¡ª seemed absurd. Surely the police had more ¡°obscene¡± things to go after?
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