Japan began to have sex education 56 years ago

Japan has long paid attention to sex education for teenagers.

After World War II, influenced by the United States, Japanese society began to advocate sexual liberation, and Japanese law even allowed the existence of the pornography industry (custom industry). Japanese teenagers growing up in this environment are worrying. As a result, Japan began to conduct "purity education" for teenagers in 1947 after the war. In 1949, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology established the Purity Education Committee and issued the "Basic Essentials of Purity Education" to guide schools in conducting adolescent sex education.

After entering the 1980s, as the first AIDS patient was discovered in Japan, in order to prevent teenagers from being infected, the Japanese government further promoted sex education for teenagers. In addition to targeted distribution of brochures and condoms, We have also increased the provision of sex education courses in school teaching. Youth sex education in schools not only plays an extremely important role in improving the healthy personality and physique of teenagers, but also effectively controls the spread of diseases and curbs the increase in sexual crime rates. According to the latest statistics from the Japanese Police Agency, there were only 830 rape cases in Japan from January to May 2003, and the crime rate is less than 1/10 of that in the United States. Among them, there were only 88 juvenile rape cases, a decrease of 7.4% compared with the same period last year, showing a downward trend.

Japan’s youth sex education has been developed from the central to local governments and from the government to the private sector. It has established a relatively complete three-tier organization, namely government departments, civil society organizations and schools. Among them, schools are the main battlefield for sex education among Japanese teenagers. Japanese universities, middle schools, primary schools, kindergartens and special schools (schools for the deaf, etc.) carry out sex education in a planned manner in certain subjects and subjects in accordance with the requirements of the "Study Guidance Guidelines" formulated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In addition, sexual knowledge and sexual ethics are also partially taught during school education activities such as special "morality" time and special events.

There are two specific methods of sex education in primary and secondary schools in Japan, namely group guidance and individual guidance. Collective guidance refers to providing guidance to students on the study of sexual knowledge in specific subject teaching on the basis of an entire grade, a class, or a group. For example, schools will arrange teaching of sexual knowledge in subjects such as science, home economics, and social studies. Group guidance is carried out according to a certain teaching plan. Individual guidance in sex education refers to targeting a certain student and providing special guidance on various sexual-related problems that exist among them.

Experience Japan’s elementary school sex education class

The reporter once investigated the sex education class of Minato City Nanshan Elementary School in Tokyo and experienced first-hand the unique educational methods of Japanese elementary school teachers. For lower grade students, teacher Akiko Zhuangzi first asks students to start by observing their own bodies and understand sex perceptually. Teacher Tamaku Keiko told her students that being united by love is the most beautiful thing in the world. After entering the third grade, teachers began to target students' specific physiological problems and let students understand their sexual organs and the differences between men and women through videos, games, etc. After reaching the upper grades of elementary school, the teacher's explanations are more in-depth. For example, teacher Masayuki Tanimori explained the psychological changes during puberty (adolescence), teacher Mari Ito explained the learning practice of love, and two teachers, Terumi Sugimachi and Yoko Miyasaka, respectively talked about boys’ first nocturnal emissions and girls’ menarche. These sex education courses allow students to understand themselves from a positive perspective and ensure their healthy growth.

Adolescent sex education has a long way to go

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Sex Education Research Association's "2002 Student Sexuality Survey", among third-year high school students in Tokyo, 45.6% of females and 45.6% of males have had sexual intercourse experience. 37.3%, 9.1% are female and 12.3% are male in the third grade of junior high school. With the development of society, compared with the 1980s, the age at which teenagers have their first sexual experience is much earlier. This has brought more issues to the sex education of Japanese teenagers, and related sex education needs to be strengthened. A 2002 survey showed that only 21.9% of third-year high school girls took contraceptive measures correctly, which shows that sex education for Japanese teenagers has a long way to go.

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