Letters to the Editor
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in all fairness...
In Japan, rates of teen sex have roughly DOUBLED in the past fifteen years...though they are still about half of what American rates are (and teenage birth rates are roughly one-seventh--possibly in part due to no moral stigma being attached to abortion). Doctors and social workers over there are attributing this sudden spike to a combination of factors:
1. a traditional culture in which talking about sex is taboo.
2. children who do not accept the traditional mores of their parents' culture, and parents who turn a blind eye to this.
3. a huge influx of Western TV and movies in which casual sex is treated as the norm, coupled with the idea among teenagers that anything "American" is cooler than anything "Japanese."
4. a recent, well-known "schoolgirl" fetish, in which it is considered desirable for/by young women to act like stereotypical porn stars while wearing their traditional sailor-suit school uniforms. (Japanese parents and teachers are not happy about this trend crossing over from anime to real life).
Sound familiar?