Having gone through education in South Korea, where attitudes towards sex ed seems to be somewhat similar to Japan, whatever limited sex ed that I got during my childhood pretty much boiled down to ‘use a condom ya horny bastards and go to hospital if your peepee burns’.
Japan seems to have had some sort of STD-prevention education since the early 50s and such, but IDK how exactly it is taught these days.
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I had a private student in high school who i taught ks3 biology and i was the first to teach them about reproductive system and contraception. It was really really awkward.
My students said it’s garbage. We had a discussion about sex Ed class in Japan and everyone said it was trash.
When I taught at a junior high in rural Japan one of the JTEs I worked with went to the sex ed class. It was a kind of workshop done by an outside person. My JTE said it was mostly about relationships and stopping domestic violence rather than any actual sex education.
Being from Italy, Today I Learned other countries actually have Sexual Education at school ☠️
If I recall correctly, Japanese sex education used to be under the larger topic of “Moral Education”, and of course was focused on abstinence.
Not specifically about sex ed, but a junior high school I was at had a session about privacy, and personal information.
A short part of that session was about the risks of sexting, exchanging of compromising photos, and live/Webcam chats. It shared how easy it was for the other party to record sessions without your knowledge, and touched on the possibility of leaks/blackmail, and how it could even happen years after.
The only thing I can remember is a chapter in a science textbook on reproduction. And also one time this one man who was IIRC a substitute teacher taught (I mean, attempted to teach) us guys about fertilisation.
There was the religious side of things as well, I’m really not going to delve into that part, sorry.
I teach at a kindergarten and we had an issue with a kid touching another kid inappropriately. Of course, there was an investigation to look into potential abuse, but discovered it was curiosity.
Then they read the book “Who Made Me?” to each class to explain how babies are made and then talked about saying “no!” and telling an adult if someone touches them badly.
I live in a fairly inaka place so this really shocked me to see, so I think we are starting to see a shift in sex ed in japan
The JHS I worked at bundled it into the ‘moral studies’ class. Basically no covering of anything biological (STDs, pregnancy, etc), just relationships. They might have something more in high school, but I know the college I attended hosted a free sex ed class for the students to make up for the information they lacked.
Now the insane high rate of STDs makes sense after reading all these comments.