Supreme Court rejects appeal by "vagina kayak" artist over obscenity

Megumi Igarashi (R), who works under the pseudonym "Rokudenashi-ko" (good-for-nothing girl), attends a news conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2020. The Supreme Court rejected earlier in the day an appeal made by the artist against a lower court ruling that found her guilty of obscenity for distributing 3-D scans of her own genitalia to supporters in 2013 and 2014.

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