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Japan’s Age Of Consent Is 13?!

Japan’s most intimate authority on schoolgirl sex tells Shukan Asahi (12/1) that girls should be banned from engaging in intercourse until they have at least graduated from junior high school.

Tsuneo Akaeda, a doctor who for years has run a sex counseling service for schoolgirls in Roppongi, says it’s important to teach children about sex so they don’t fall prey to some of the many risks it entails.

“Most parents can no longer get away with thinking their own kids are the only ones who are safe. I’ve got elementary school kids coming to my clinic to be treated for venereal disease. One sixth grader told me she needed money so she could be a groupie for her favorite performer and the only way to get cash was to sell her body to five old men.

Most would imagine the girl to be a pretty wild type, but she looked just like any other elementary schoolgirl, dressing in a T-shirt adorned with a picture of a manga character and wearing a typical skirt,” Akaeda tells Shukan Asahi

“Most of the old guys sleeping with her couldn’t imagine her having a venereal disease, so the idea of wearing a condom is unthinkable for them. The truth is that she’s sought treatment at my clinic several times for diseases like chlamydia and gonorrhea.

In fact, she’s had chlamydia so often, pus oozes out of her continuously. I get the feeling the number of junior high schoolgirls seeking treatment from me is increasing. High school girls have no qualms about turning up to my clinic in their school uniforms.

They’re just ordinary, everyday kids doing their best at school. But they have no sense of shame. They think it’s totally normal to have an active sex life at their age.”

Girls’ attitudes toward the consequences of sex also affect the doctor.

“Just recently a woman with a pregnant junior high school pupil daughter visited my clinic. The mother said the girl was determined to have the baby no matter what. Even after everybody had told the girl how much of a struggle she faced by becoming a mother at such a young age, she remained determined.

When I told her she wouldn’t be able to go to school and would have to study at home, she told me she hated studying and wouldn’t do it. When I said that, in that case, she’d have to go out and work, the girl again spat out that she hated work and wouldn’t do that, either. The only reason she wanted to have the baby was because she thought it offered her an escape route from school and work,” Akaeda says.

“In over 80 countries around the world, the age of consent is 16, but in Japan sex is only banned among those under 13. If 13-year-olds aren’t capable of judging whether it’s right or wrong to have sex, there’s not much to say that kids who are 14 or 15 will be able to decide any better.

Japan must raise the age to consent to 16,” Akaeda tells Shukan Asahi. “Also, we need to have sex education in all junior high schools. When you drive a car, you need a license, right? Why should sex be any different? If kids don’t get good grades in sex education, they should be given remedial education until they thoroughly understand what’s going on.” (By Masuo Kamiyama)

Read more at Mainichi Daily

{ 4 } Comments

  1. Jack White | November 28, 2006 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    Japan has it right! They re relaxed about sex, but totally against war.

    America will give a person a life sentence for sexing a 13 year old, but you can receive a hero’s medal if you drop bunker busters, and 1000 bombs on them blowing babies, children and adloescents to mincemeat!

    Which way makes the most sense to you?

  2. surendra bilap patilNo Gravatar | April 26, 2009 at 11:23 am | Permalink

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  3. surendra bilap patilNo Gravatar | April 26, 2009 at 11:25 am | Permalink

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  4. not Jack WhiteNo Gravatar | September 11, 2009 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

    @Jack White (and similar-minded):
    it doesn’t have to be one or the other. just because you point out two seemingly poignant differences between Japan and the USA doesn’t mean they have any correlation whatsoever.

    being sexually active at 13 is definitely not anything to be proud of, (this level of) intimacy requires a level of ability to judge character and situation unlikely to be found in anyone at such young age.

    as for the anti-war mentality of the Japanese govt – I wouldn’t describe it as “totally against war”. if you look a little beyond the surface Japan is definitely not planning to suspend building their army in the long term.

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