A survey by Asahi Shimbun shows that 88% of Japanese parents support expanding sex education in schools. Additionally, 71% consider the current restrictive clause in the curriculum unnecessary. Researcher Shuhei Horikawa explains that these parents, raised without such education, do not feel capable of teaching it at home and prefer that schools handle it.
The restrictive clause hinders updated content 🚫
The clause in question limits the teaching of topics such as contraceptive methods or sexual diversity, leaving the content at a basic biological level. To update the curriculum, it would be necessary to modify guidelines from the Ministry of Education. Horikawa suggests that parents, recognizing their lack of tools, support a structural change that allows teachers to use more accurate materials adapted to youth reality.
The lost manual of the generation without sex education 📘
It turns out that Japanese parents, experts in folding origami and operating bullet trains, declare themselves incompetent to talk about human reproduction. They prefer to delegate the task to teachers who, hopefully, won't use cucumber drawings as a metaphor. At least now they know that silence is not an effective contraceptive method, even if their parents thought otherwise.