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Roppongi pox doctor gives the scoop on schoolgirls and STDs 2006,11,25
Shukan Asahi 12/1 By Masuo Kamiyama
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.
"Just recently a woman with a pregnant junior high school pupil daughter visited my clinic.
"What's more, with the country's declining birthrate, older people are seeing these young girls getting pregnant and praising them for doing their bit for the country at such a young age.
I can't believe the irresponsibility."
Akaeda notes that the fight against teenage pregnancies is not being helped by the current hit TV drama, "14-Year-Old Mother," which glorifies teen motherhood without painting a picture of what it's really like to have a child while so young.
He argues that it's important for families to talk, especially fathers of young girls.
"If a girl regularly talks to her father, she's going to find the idea of having sex with a man from the same generation repelling," the doctor says, offering a solution to the teenage prostitution problem.
"Statistics show that children who communicate with their parents are also more likely to delay having sex."
Akaeda also advocates "pride education," which involves parents praising their children whenever possible, boosting their self-esteem and fostering a sense of self importance and cleanliness, all factors the schoolgirl sex expert says are going to make youngsters more careful when it comes to sleeping around.
"If girls think guys are dirty, they're not going to let them touch their most intimate parts too easily," he says.
Akaeda says that Japanese schoolgirls think too lightly about sexually transmitted diseases, mistakenly believing they are simple ailments to be laughed at instead of the lifelong afflictions that many can be.
He also advocates sex education, which is a matter of pot luck at Japanese junior high and elementary schools, which can choose to provide instruction on the birds and the bees.
With so many children missing out on sex education, Akaeda says it's vital to raise the age of consent.
"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)
November 25, 2006