--- description: American exchange student gets stuck in a stone vagina. title: American Student Gets Stuck in a Stone Vagina image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81edf1d2bef30478/698698c9810bbb840bc924b1/chacc3a1n-pi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # An American Got Stuck in a Stone Vagina Sculpture in Germany  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 23, 2014 2:42 PM CUT  Kamahele  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 23, 2014 2:42 PM CUT An American exchange student [got stuck](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany?CMP=fb%5Fgu "undefined") [inside a stone sculpture of a vagina](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/steinerne-vulva-in-tuebingen-heillos-verklemmt-1.2010137 "undefined") last week in Germany. It took more than 20 emergency responders Friday to free the young man, according to reports in the German newspaper [_Süddeutsche_](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/steinerne-vulva-in-tuebingen-heillos-verklemmt-1.2010137 "undefined") and [_The Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany?CMP=fb%5Fgu "undefined"). He had wedged himself inside [Pi Chacan](http://www.delajara.com/EN/werke-skulpturen.php "undefined"), a 2001 stone sculpture by Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara, in front of Tübingen University’s Institute for Microbiology and Virology. The police in Tübingen first learned of the incident when they received a call reporting that “a person is stuck in a stone vulva.” The city’s mayor Boris Palmer said he could not understand how the student got himself in that situation in the first place, “even taking into account adolescent fantasy,” [_Süddeutsche_](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/steinerne-vulva-in-tuebingen-heillos-verklemmt-1.2010137 "undefined") reports. No word on whether the student was trying to take a [selfie](http://time.com/28679/student-breaks-statue-selfie/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2911716/american-student-stuck-in-stone-vagina/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2911716/american-student-stuck-in-stone-vagina/"},"headline":"An American Got Stuck in a Stone Vagina Sculpture in Germany","datePublished":"2014-06-23T14:42:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:02.278Z","description":"No word yet on whether he was trying to take a selfie","url":"https://time.com/2911716/american-student-stuck-in-stone-vagina/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81edf1d2bef30478/698698c9810bbb840bc924b1/chacc3a1n-pi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt81edf1d2bef30478/698698c9810bbb840bc924b1/chacc3a1n-pi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"chacán-pi","caption":"","creditText":"Kamahele","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2911716/american-student-stuck-in-stone-vagina/","name":"An American Got Stuck in a Stone Vagina Sculpture in Germany"}}]}] ```