Menstruation Machine

If you are an average girl taking the pill, you’d think Naoki is crazy to dare having the idea for such invention. However, you can’t call yourself a real drag queen if you don’t have a Naoki Kawamoto Menstruation Machine. Fitted with a blood dispensing mechanism and lower-abdomen-stimulating electrodes, the Menstruation Machine simulates the pain and bleeding of an average 5 day human menstruation. Sounds like the last step after tons of make-up, attention-craving clothes, wigs, hair-removal procedures, hormones, breast implants and a casual sex change. They don’t make those vaginas bleed, do they?! To spare further confusion and if you’re an experienced sex-changed reader, leave an expert comment.

Back to the topic of the post: The Menstruation Machine (Takashi’s Take) is a music video about a boy ‘Takashi’, who builds the machine in an attempt to dress up as a female, biologically as well as aesthetically, to fulfill his desire to understand what it might feel like to be a truly kawaii (cute) girl. He determinedly wears the machine to hang out with his kawaii friends in Tokyo and hang out with his girlfriends. You will love the track, too:

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Project Credits
Product Design: Naoki Kawamoto
Photography: Rai Royal
Set Design: Sam Frances
Make Up: Hiroe Tomikawa
Video Production: Aug5, Japan, Director: Yasuhito Tsuge
Sound Production: DJ Codomo
Stylist: Shoko Sei
Fashion: Emma Lundgren, Amakiru, Grace Du Prez, Anna Schwamborn
Research Guidance: Prof. Jan Brosens, Imperial College London, Department of Medicine
Shoot Studio: Bullet’s Nishiazabu