Radishes moan when groped

World's Best Ever says: "The Sekuhara (translated: Sexual Harassment) Interface is a group of daikon radishes that have been hooked up to electronic sensors to emit moans and groans when groped."

It would be easy to construct a Sekuhara Interface for home use using the MaKey MaKey kit.

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Ew.
- BunnyShank
  
  took the nonverbal communication right out of my mouth
skeptacally

Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg.

The way you squeeze my radish, I’m gonna fall right out of bed.
http://japansunset.blogspot.com igzabier

！(◎_◎;)
http://grathio.com Steve Hoefer

I’ve often thought that the Bop It toy was one short hack away from being a sexual harassment toy. But I’ve never thought of daikon as… Well now I’ll never be able to think of anything else.
- Quiche de Resistance
  
  Bop it knows what it likes, and is apparently not afraid to demand it.
UnderachievingSheep

It’s oddly culturally relevant in that they have made the radishes sound exactly like women in Japanese porn (that moan that to my Western trained ears sounds more like rape/ non consensual sex pleads than pleasure).
- http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti
  
  Well, maybe to to Eastern trained ears we sound like a bunch of monkeys.
- teapot
  
  Japanese women don’t sound like Japanese porn like western women don’t sound like western porn so I dont really get your point.
  
  But you are right in that these sounds come from Japanese porn. Amusingly they decided to use “itai” (it hurts) instead of “iku” (I’m coming). It is weird that Japanese porn consumers expect their fantasy girls to be telling them it hurts (I suspect the turn on is supposed to be the implication it hurts because their junk is so big).
giantasterisk

So that’s a moarn, huh? Not what I was expecting. Those lovely radishes are much too phallic to pair such a girlie sound with them, but some sexy man moarns might be nice….
- Boundegar
  
  There was a boy radish too. I feel 1 male : 3 females is just about right.
noah django

moarns ＼（＾＾）／
KWillets

In Korea it’s common to refer to women with short, squat legs as “turnip legs” (referring to the same vegetable); I wonder if Japan has a similar expression.
- teapot
  
  Ha! A Japanese girl I know often referred to hakujin (white people) as daikon ashi (radish legs) because white girls tend to have much fatter (and whiter) legs than Japanese girls.
- Quiche de Resistance
  
  In america some say “legs like a piano”
http://twitter.com/Moriash Nathan

Oh Japan, Japan, Japan… You’re off your meds again, aren’t you?
David Aked

I’m surprised the obvious hasn’t been said yet.

“He was hoping for a root (Vegetable)”
exile

Once upon a time, in a garden in Australia…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63d6-r3zumo
[nsfw if your boss hates philodendrons]
- chgoliz
  
  Once again proof that that Nature is curiouser than anything humans dream up.
  - Quiche de Resistance
    
    Nature used a moth. Australians decided to give the philodendron a hanj.
    - chgoliz
      
      The bottom is female, the top is male, the covering has to close halfway to protect the female part from being fertilized by its own male part, and a mere moth can lightly skip over the surface and yet effect the equivalent result as a much more thorough handjob….that’s rather curious, to me.
Preston Sturges

Call any vegetable and the chances are good
The vegetable wiil respond to you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDGiW-qZ2k