Tuesday 29 July 2014

Japan, 'print' her vagina in 3D and risks imprisonment: "Charges of obscenity"

According to the authorities in Tokyo increased crime due to "misuse" of the three-dimensional printers. After the case of a man who has played a plastic gun, potentially capable of shooting ends in the viewfinder the creation of an artist. And it rekindles debate on freedom of expression.


A real "revolution of the crime", not only in industrial production. This is what they fear the public security authorities Japanese these days, compared to an increase in crimes related to the improper use of 3D printers. The alarm was triggered in early May. 

Yoshitomo Imura, 27 year-old employee at a private university near Yokohama, he was arrested at his home after finding two guns plastic created with a 3D printer. Were potentially able to shoot and then to kill. The Japanese national television, the NHK, had unveiled a video on the Internet, posted by man, showing all the steps to assemble the two arms. The news made ​​headlines abroad, this is the first arrest of its kind. Police investigations have also revealed that he had purchased his Imura 3D printer on the Internet from the United States in September of last year to just over 430 euro. Barely a month after he had managed to produce his first firearm. What 3D printers is a growing market in Japan and objects created using this technology more and more popular. Some medical studies have for some time in this part of a 3D printing service in prenatal x-rays and souvenir pack. 

The art world was not immune. And the most recent case of "misuse" of 3D printers comes from right here. Megumi Igarashi, 42-year old artist known by the name of Rokudenashiko (literally "pretty good for nothing"), was arrested Saturday on charges of "obscenity." He had e-mailed the file with the 3D scan of her vagina to how many of his fans had donated a sum of money to finance the construction of one of his most recent works: Manbo (or Pussy Boat), a kayak-shaped genitals female modeled on her own vagina. The police then raided the study of women and seized dozens of his works centered on the theme of female sexuality. 

Igarashi now faces a sentence of up to two years in prison. This has sparked a debate on freedom of expression and, once again, on the emancipation of women in contemporary Japanese society. As long before his arrest, the artist had given life to creations focused on the sex female with the goal of "demystify" the eyes of his countrymen. The vagina then it becomes a trench, a hill on which stands a church, a street with stalls or even a boat. 

If you do not own the '"Origin of the World," Igarashi in the art of the female organ, of that world, at least becomes an integral part. A strong message to Igarashi. In Japan there are traditional festivals dedicated to the penis and the pornography industry - especially the one for the consumption male - is thriving. If we consider that Japan has declared illegal pornography just a few weeks ago and continues to tolerate products "fantasy" as manga, anime and video games, the picture is complete. According to the activist Minori Kitahara, the first woman to open a sex shop for women in Tokyo, in fact, the case of the artist revealed quite extensive application of laws against '"obscenity." "That Japan is a society where those who try to express female sexuality are oppressed, while that of men is widely tolerated."

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