I travel to Finland for business. This just came in from one of my colleagues.

Aesthetics Prize Won By Giant Vulva Sparks Controversy
HELSINGIN SANOMAT

The awarding of an aesthetics prize to Mobile Female Monument, a larger-than-life sculpture on wheels depicting the female genitalia by artist Mimosa Pale, has sparked intense debate on the Helsingin Sanomat Internet message board.
     The Finnish Society for Aesthetics granted its "Aesthetic Act of the Year" award to the massive pink silicon vagina that moves on wheels. The work has sparked strong opinions both pro and con.
     
The sculpture was noticed at the final exhibition of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in the spring. Its home base is in the Tennis Palace Art Museum, from where Pale would take it out three times a week and place it somewhere in the city.
     The "giant vulva" also set a new record for the hs.fi website: the on-line debate attracted more than 100,000 hits from readers.
     The panel of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics found that Mobile Female Monument is "a surrealistic and at the same time a very human work of art, which speaks simultaneously of public and personal space. Viewed from afar, the Gogolesque giant nose on wheels is revealed on closer inspection to be a woman's organ of giving birth. Pale invites passers-by to crawl into the work and to be reborn."
     
The panel also found that the work, which appears to be provocative, turns into a statement on the beauty of the event of birth, and on looking at the world through fresh eyes.
     "As its name suggests, Pale's work is a feminine monument, which challenges the masculine tradition of public sculpture. The antithesis of a stationary erect stone slab is a work that is soft and mobile."
     "Through its subject matter it also directly confronts the advertising imagery that has grown to gigantic size in our environment", the panel says.

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...where Marie unwittingly makes a sculpture that looks like labia.  The look on the guys' faces is priceless!

It looks more like a spit out wad of bubble gum than the holiest of holies.

The Fins, at least according to a 60 Minutes episode some years back, need as much encouragement as possible to do the nasty, so I suppose anything that can get them thinking about it is worthwhile.

I know many Finns. Many are friends, some are otherwise. Their personality (collectively as a culture) is truly in a class of it's own. And I don't mean that in a good way.