If you are easily offended, please don¡¯t read this column because it¡¯s about obscenity laws in Japan and that in itself may be obscene. If my editor will let me, we¡¯ll even put up a possibly obscene image! (Don¡¯t worry, I won¡¯t ¡ª Ed.)
If you read it and are still offended, then I suggest that you take this column and mail it to the police in an envelope. For your own sake, however, make sure you don¡¯t email them a copy. If you do, you could be arrested and held in custody on ¡°obscene electromagnetic record distribution charges.¡±
Conceptual artist and manga writer Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashi-ko (¡°no-good girl¡°), was arrested on July 12 on those charges. The charges that were filed related to the distribution of 3-D schematics of her vagina to supporters so they could make replicas with their own 3-D printer.
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