American Apparel bleeding vagina T-shirt designed by Toronto artist causing a stir

A shirt depicting a bleeding vagina is causing a bit of a brouhaha.

American Apparel is selling online a graphic T-shirt they're calling "Period Power," designed by Toronto artist Petra Collins, "who creates portraits exploring female sexuality and teen girl culture."

On the white cotton tee is a picture of a woman masturbating while menstruating.

"It was a play on souvenir tees that are derogatory to the female body," Collins, 20, said Monday in a telephone interview from New York City. "I put these three very taboo topics on female sexuality on this - pubic hair, female masturbation and menstruation - and put them on display for the public."

The drawing was featured as part of a "Gynolandscape" art exhibit in Manhattan last month and Collins - a student at OCAD University - said it is her most controversial piece.

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