An artist was fined ¥400,000 for obscenity on Monday after distributing 3-D printer data of her genitals and said she plans to appeal the ruling.
Megumi Igarashi, 44, known by her pseudonym Rokudenashiko (Good-for-Nothing Girl) or — more bluntly — the “vagina artist,” was convicted of distributing the data over the Internet in October 2013 and March 2014.
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