Am I getting older?
Bigger in Japan.
They say that the older you get the more out of touch with the younger generation you become. You know- classic generation gap. I dont really feel it all that much since im a wargaming, PS2-playing, arcading, plastic-model-building, comic-reading kid. Yet some things are different.
The kids aren't alright as offspring ( i think?) once said.
Found out today- that these once supposedly innocent kids are engaging in way too much sex for their tiny minds to handle. Now- im nowhere near the frump or the prude. On the contrary im te most sexually liberal person i know....the thing is...I believe there are guidelines when venturing into that realm. One guideline being that you be of above average maturity !!
This is the wierd thing for me- these kids seem SO immature. And not like western kids immature. Im sure you're saying, yeah but all kids are immature- you were too. Yes i was. But- at that age- i was not at that level i can assure you of that. Another wierd thing is the concept of Honnemae and Tatemae- the two faces of Japan....the communicaton level (or total lack thereof) between girls and boys at school is incredible. They just DO NOT talk to each other. They barely even look at each other. It so wierd. Found out yesterday that most of the guys in the "cool group" have well...been around the block so to speak. Take a look at the pic below. There are four guys in the pic. Three of them (they are either 14 or 15 y/o ) have had sex. One of them had sex with a girl right after his friend did. fucking scary stuff. How do i know this you might cry- they tell me. They have absoluely no reservations about just blurting that shit out. Now...im trying to think back to my time at jnr high equivalent...and it jsut was not the same. This largely due to the fact that i went to an all boys school though. If you manage to read this- please stick up a comment on what it was like at your Junior high. anywho....
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Kids lose their innocence (off of Japan Times)
By MICHAEL HOFFMAN
Shukan Gendai (Oct. 2)
Once upon a time sex was for adults, puberty happened to teenagers, and children were innocent. Not so today, Shukan Gendai finds. The Internet and accelerated bodily development, among other factors, conspire to squeeze childhood into fewer and fewer years. Many 11-year-old girls already look like women, and social pressures constrain them into acting the part.
The magazine cites Education Ministry statistics to make the purely physical point. In 1954, the average 11-year-old girl weighed 30.1 kg and was 134.5 cm tall. Today, she weighs 40 kg and is 147.1 cm tall. Thirty years ago, says a school nurse, a girl's first menstrual flow would occur during sixth grade at the earliest, but more generally in junior high school. Today, she says, half to one-third of sixth-graders have crossed that milestone. Some girls cross it in grade three.
Twenty years ago, notes lingerie maker Wacoal, 30 percent of second-year junior high school girls wore bras. In 2001, the same figure figure applied to fifth-graders.
Here was a challenge the fashion industry lost no time rising to. New lines of "junior" lingerie were designed to seduce an expanding young market.
"I learned about [Wacoal's] Nu-Bra from my older sister," Shukan Gendai hears from a sixth-grader. "It makes my bust look big. I feel so grown up in it."
If that's a blessing, it's a mixed one. How grown-up should a girl that age feel? Premature sexual awakening generates premature sexual preoccupation, some of the results of which are on display in the letters column of the teen fashion magazine Nicola.
"Masturbation feels so good," writes a fifth-grader. " 'Enough!' I tell myself -- but I can't stop. Still, I really do want to lose this habit."
"I do it too -- what's wrong with it?" replied a sixth-grader by way of encouragement. "It'll help with sex later on."
The Internet was long ago identified as a factor in the decline of juvenile innocence.
"I'm in grade four and looking for a chat boyfriend," reads one note posted on a chat site bulletin board.
"I have four chat boyfriends," says a sixth-grader. "We chat about light sex, the stuff you can't usually talk about at home or in school. But," she adds, "I've never met them. Oh no. I'd be scared, and . . . embarrassed. It's just practice for when I have a real boyfriend."
It sounds harmless, and maybe it is, but it alarms Shukan Gendai that the girls' parents probably know nothing about that "practice." Children's computer skills are apt to be far more advanced than their parents', and their online life -- sexual, presexual, or nonsexual -- unfolds for the most part without adult supervision.
Children looking like women exploring sexually inviting venues like the Internet -- does that necessarily mean trouble? No. Can it mean trouble? Can it, for example, suck 11-year-olds into enjo kosai, the sex-for-cash activity that has become so casual it's scarcely even thought of as prostitution?
Of course it can. Shukan Gendai offers this advice to parents: Talk to your kids about sex, because -- says one study -- "Children whose parents don't talk to them tend to have sex earliest."
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