THE BUZZ: Japanese vagina selfie artist vows legal battle against obscenity charges

A Japanese artist who made figures of Lady Gaga and a kayak modelled on her vagina said she was outraged by her arrest and vowed a court fight against obscenity charges, The Guardian reported yesterday.
Speaking from jail, Megumi Igarashi, 42, said she was challenging a culture of “discrimination” against discussion of the vagina in Japanese society.
Igarashi, who worked under the alias Rokudenashiko, which means “good-for-nothing girl”, built a yellow kayak with a top shaped like her vagina after raising about USD10,000 through crowdfunding, the English paper said.
Igarashi sent 3D printer data of her scanned vagina – the digital basis for her kayak project – as a thanks to a number of donors. On Saturday, she was arrested for distributing indecent material and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to USD25,000.