Really don't understand why they are getting in such a flap about it.
Japanese artist fined for virtual vagina files
Artist Megumi Igarashi - aka "Rokudenashi-ko" - has been fined ¥400,000 (roughly £2,560) for distributing 3D printable files of her genitalia - an offence under Japan's obscenity laws which prohibit the depiction of reproductive parts. Igarashi was cuffed back in July 2014 for supplying virtual ladyparts via email to a "30- …
Ok OK, enough is enough, this just isn't fanny anymore. Can we just pud-an-enda to this please...
I see
I'm sure that artist can now produce many vagina, name them after the politicians in Japan and have the subtitle "because they are c****" (no, not cocks, okay, yes cocks but no, not cocks).
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It's ok, you can type cunt if that's what you mean. Or are you being satirical about Japan's "Penises good, vaginas bad" attitude?
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Ya know, you're actually right? I have no idea why the C word makes me slightly uncomfortable (vagina doesnt though, I love vagina, I could play with the word vagina all day, and vagina in general), maybe it's nice that there are still words that can make a person hesitant to write? Fuck knows why.
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Penises are not good either.
Japan, maker of high definition television devices insists that certain parts of the human body be represented at 32x32 pixels.
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Grow up in East London and you'll fnd it's an everyday word, didn't realise it was considered a bad swearword until moving up North and getting some looks for my liberal use of the word.
Actually they censor both.
I haven't researched it extensively, but I believe that "Japanese" genre porn is the only (certainly one of the very few) which is routinely tagged as "censored" or "uncensored".
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Up North in some dialects it means drainpipe or narrow,dark and damp alleyway.
seems fitting somehow ;)
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Isn't there a yearly penis parade fertility festival though? Can't verity that at the moment, I'm not running that through a search engine as I am at work.
Re: Hope she learns electronics next
Moon Ribas, Cyborg Artist, implanted a vibrator inside her arm that is connected to the world's seismic shocks then dances to the vibrations. If she were the Artist from Japan, Megumi Igarashi, and implanted the sensor in her manko then we could justifiably ask if the earth moved for her. However, there may be an even bumpier ride on oil prices now that a young Saudi prince exercises his thought on the earth's stage. Would you give all your intimate details to a Nigerian, an Experian or a Arabian Prince? Which makes the earth move most for you? I imply no connection whatsoever with Our Dearly Departed. It's a mixture of bangs for your buck and fangs for your ...
Oh, I don't care.
Re: Hope she learns electronics next
We have an infinitely 'variable capacitance' for wit here, 'resistance' is futile.
Re: Hope she learns electronics next
You should be inducted into the comedy hall of fame for that, no matter how much it Hertz.
Re: Hope she learns electronics next
Yes, but such acts have always been in a state of flux. Seems there's a lot of reluctance about.
Well they already have a stupid law about naughty bits while they don't have a law about imaginary characters. The stupid naughty bit law has been about for a long old time the funny thing is you can buy a pocket pussy but not a file to make one.
Weird. But oh well, that's the law for you.Like the couple that live streamed themselves shagging that got put away, and the ban on people with tattoos working for public government in Osaka, and senior politicians who think that they were perfectly civil during ww2 and the lead up to it.
World is full of sexy fear...
I mean - China just banned erotic Banana eating.
I mean - China just banned erotic Banana eating.as well they should. After all bananas are dangerously radioactive.
Hypocrites
I bet she wouldn't be in trouble if she printed tentacles and/or anime characters.
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Certainly would be for anime characters - they're all censored - even the figurines.
One of the reason tentacles became popular was because of the same law. Though if it's penis tentacles they get censored now days, and they'll be censored if they're penetrating. Dildos... they're fine.
Much like when the Japanese authorities banned prostitution everywhere in some area and said it could only happen in the Swamp. So the Japanese drained the swamp and built a town there.
Oh another thing is arseholes, those are generally fine (recently less fine then they used to be)
Funny.
"Japan's obscenity laws which prohibit the depiction of reproductive parts."
The Japanese authorities must have missed this one!
Re: "Japan's obscenity laws which prohibit the depiction of reproductive parts."
That's a religious ceremony so it's OK.
"The Guardian notes that unsurprisingly, Igarashi's trial has prompted some to accuse the powers that be of "hypocrisy", since it "began after Japanese authorities resisted pressure to ban pornographic images of children in manga and animated films, citing concerns over restricting freedom of artistic expression"
Not sure why its "hypocrisy"? The reason images of this ladles 'bits' are illegal is because its unlawful in Japan to produce images of genitalia that aren't censored. A completely different matter from why they should/shouldn't ban pornographic images of children in manga and animated films.
But hey ho...
re: Not sure why its "hypocrisy"?
It's simple. If the legislature believes that artistic freedom is important they should apply that across the board. Why is the artistic freedom to depict child abuse more imortant than the artisitic freedom to depict your own body?
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And the biophysically unfeasible breasts depicted in e.g. High School of the Dead and just about everything else.
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I wouldn't call what she did "artistic."
The first thing she did, from what I can gather, was just redistribute 3D printable blueprints of her pussy.
The second was create a boat using said blueprints.
Should she have been punished for either one of these things, though? No.
Re: re: Not sure why its "hypocrisy"?
Guess what sabroni? Cartoon characters of any age are also censored due to the same obscenity laws. Granuiad is pushing an offtopic agenda.
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See it's weirder, she was found not guilty for the boat based on here vagina, but was guilty for the 3d file, however was only fined half what the prosecution sought.
The bbc article doesn't try to clickterbate like the guardian it would seem.
But hey ho that's the law for you, and the plus side is the sillyness of the case has sparked a discussion but the reality is that trying to get anything through the diet is an operation in near futility.
Reproductive bits
Well, if they're on children, then they aren't reproductive bits, since children can't reproduce. For that matter, septuagenarians can't reproduce, either, so producing images of their bits should be acceptable. Now, excuse me while I go find a truckload of mind-bleach. Yuech!
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For that matter, septuagenarians can't reproduce, either
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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I always love the "if the child is naked, it's clearly abuse" fallacy.
It could be abuse, it could be exploitation, it could just be a naked child...
Hell, it could just as well be a 500-year-old vampire with a childlike body.
Pretty Fly for a Japanese Girl
@ TRT; "...biophysically unfeasible breasts..."
Speaking of unfeasibly large things in (would-be) sexy mangas and animes...
Am I the only person who's noticed that the character designs there seem to push the already widespread "larger eyes = cuter" tendency so far that they stop looking cute and start looking weird?
I've seen some exaggerate it to the point where their oversized eyes begin to look reminiscent of a fly's.
IMHO, this is Not A Good Thing. YMMV.
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"Well, if they're on children, then they aren't reproductive bits, since children can't reproduce."
Well often many folks who enjoy these laws "children" can cover anything upto and including 21 and not actual age, how old they appear. Also apparently a drawing is a child... which is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I mean how does a picture reproduce?
Now given white folk tend to go "she looks about 10" about real Japanese women what chance do drawn characters have?
I mean a drawing isn't a person, unless you're mad. But we had all these arguments before and it's a waste of time. I mean in the UK a drawing of a character that appears under 18 literally has rights. How retarded is that?
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@AC. No, Chibo is a thing. A weird thing. Taken to it's ultimate conclusion, a pair of sparkly eyes and nothing else must be the cutest thing in existence.
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I mean how does a picture reproduce?
Pictures have a symbiotic relationship with humans who place them in photocopiers and press the photocopier's clitoris button.
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I mean a drawing isn't a person, unless you're mad. But we had all these arguments before and it's a waste of time. I mean in the UK a drawing of a character that appears under 18 literally has rights. How retarded is that?
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It is however perfectly true that a drawing of a character that appears to be under 18 is unable to consent to sex ...
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@Cynic_999:
And does that really matter when the entire thing is fictional?
Re: re: Not sure why its "hypocrisy"?
I wouldn't call what she did "artistic."
But a wall of many plaster casts of different cunts is?
Picture from Hobart's MONA art gallery:
https://foodtrail.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dsc07206.jpg
Re: re: Not sure why its "hypocrisy"?
blueprints of her pussy.
Rather a different colour, I'd say.
