# Japan Authorities Hostile to Vagina Kayak **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368 "2014-07-17T15:59:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/21 "2014-07-17T19:59:00Z")
Yellow? _Really?_ ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/22 "2014-07-17T20:00:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Brings new meaning to the phrase [“little man in the boat.”](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=little+man+in+the+boat) Seriously? You’re just gonna act like you got there first? > [@Bricker](#): > > Putting aside the observation that the man in the boat is a woman… ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/23 "2014-07-17T20:01:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Did anyone notice the byline on the WaPo article linked in the OP? 😉 Oh, god, that HAS to be deliberate, right? “Okay, Lindsey, your next story is out of Japan.” “I usually don’t do stories out of that region. Why me?” “Well, uh…” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/24 "2014-07-17T20:18:42Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s a big vagina. That’s a big vagina. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/25 "2014-07-17T20:21:40Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > That’s a big vagina. That’s not a vagina, _this_ is a vagina! -or- We’re gonna need a bigger boat! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/26 "2014-07-17T20:30:59Z")
According to Steven Fry on QI, ‘Kayak’ literally means “A boat for man to use”, and the women have a different boat by a different name. Not quite sure how that all fits in, but seems relevant somehow. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/27 "2014-07-17T21:33:14Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Or you were being swooshed. Nice! [QUOTE=Loach] That’s a big vagina. [/QUOTE] No, that’s [Alotta Fagina](http://austinpowers.wikia.com/wiki/Alotta_Fagina)! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/28 "2014-07-18T00:58:48Z")
Could that kayak hold a lot of seamen? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/29 "2014-07-18T01:10:52Z")
“Martin, it’s all psychological. You yell Penis Festival, everybody says, “Huh? What?” You yell vagina kayak, we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/30 "2014-07-18T02:28:18Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Seriously? You’re just gonna act like you got there first? You didn’t provide a cite.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/31 "2014-07-18T02:34:20Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > According to Steven Fry on QI, ‘Kayak’ literally means “A boat for man to use”, and the women have a different boat by a different name. > Not quite sure how that all fits in, but seems relevant somehow. [Umiak.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umiak) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/32 "2014-07-18T02:35:14Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Seriously? You’re just gonna act like you got there first? It doesn’t matter if you get there first. What matters is your staying power. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/33 "2014-07-18T03:38:36Z")
Why all the hooha about a vagina kayak when we already have box boats? I reckon it should be called a Yoni Yakyak. ‘Vagina kayak’ just doesn’t roll off the tongue in the same way, and “I have a vagina kayak” instantly lends itself to confusion in terms of whether to be excited, envious, ask about their treatment program, or seek medical advice. Since we already have marinas for vaginas, it was probably just a matter of time before we had vaginas for marinas. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/34 "2014-07-18T03:42:54Z")
So is it true what they say-- Japanese vagina kayaks go down the river sideways? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/35 "2014-07-18T04:18:07Z")
This gives new meaning to the term “Loose lips sink ships”. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/36 "2014-07-18T05:15:18Z")
Tentacles, man, we need more tentacles. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/37 "2014-07-18T05:40:23Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > From the same country that has an [annual Penis Festival](http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2014/04/10/japanese-festival-celebrates-the-penis). And the [Journey of Poo](http://www.bangkokpost.com/most-recent/419859/journey-of-poo-big-splash-in-japan). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/38 "2014-07-18T21:04:59Z")
It’s not directly related, but while looking up stuff about this, I stumbled across the Giant Inflatable Solar Vagina: > **[Giant Inflatable Sun Vagina \[NSFW\]](https://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/giant-inflatable-vagina-nsfw-26q)** > > It's like Little Shop of Horrors, and Rick Moranis is a ladder. As the commentary says, it looks like something from the X-rated version of _Little Shop of Horrors_ Here it is inflating: > **[Inflatable Vulva (vagina) - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hhf6)** > > An inflatable vulva with tentacles, made for a theater production by Airworks (airworksinflatables.com). For more pix, see: https://airworksinflatables.com/pages/projects\_pages/Vagina.html [http://airworksinflatables.co.uk/frames/vagina.html](http://airworksinflatables.co.uk/frames/vagina.html) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/39 "2014-07-18T21:47:50Z")
On the subject of vagina-shaped things, it amuses me to no end that the hospital where my wife gives birth (Katz Women’s Hospital, part of Long Island Jewish Medical Center) is shaped (if viewed from above) like a vagina (or kayak). [Architect’s rendering](http://www.archello.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/header_detail_large/story/media/Nieuwe%20afbeelding%20(5)_45.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368/40 "2014-07-18T23:12:03Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Tentacles, man, we need more tentacles. Release the Kraken!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-authorities-hostile-to-vagina-kayak/693368.md?page=3)