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Japanese artist guilty of obscenity law breach

(9 May 2016) A Tokyo court ruled on Monday that vagina-shaped objects created by a Japanese artist qualify as art, but found her guilty of obscenity for distributing digital data that could be used to make a realistic three-dimensional recreation of her genitalia. Tokyo District Court ordered Megumi Igarashi, who also uses the name Rokudenashiko, or good-for-nothing girl, to pay a 400,000 yen (3,700 US dollar) fine for distributing the data, her lawyers said. The court said a set of three vagina-shaped ornaments, decorated and painted in bright colours, did not look like skin or immediately suggest female genitalia and therefore were not obscene, her lawyers said. However, the judges said the data, from a scan of her own vagina, could be used with a three-dimensional printer to create a realistic shape that could sexually arouse viewers. The vagina ornaments were on display at a sex shop in Tokyo but were not for sale, according to Mayuko Nakamori, one of Igarashi's defence lawyers. Igarashi, who is also known for creating a vagina-shaped kayak, distributed computer discs containing the data as gifts to people who helped raise funds for the kayak project, her lawyers said. She was charged over the display of the objects in 2014 and the distribution of the digital data in 2013 and 2014. Igarashi, however, has argued that she is using a vagina as a motif in art, and not for obscenity. Despite Japan's lucrative pornography industry and tolerance of displays of scantily dressed women in ads and in magazines, its obscenity laws prohibit public displays of genitalia. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...