Japanese Teens Are Having Sex
Dec. 2nd, 2004 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgAnd they're getting VD, too. At a much higher rate than I would have assumed - one in 10, overall.
So where are the teen pregnancies? They're blaming the high incidence of chlamydia on inadequate sex education. Japan has an almost non-existent teen pregnancy problem compared to the US - but abortion on demand. But you never hear about it, either. As was once told to me, the Japanese deal with teen pregnancy in one of two ways - abortion or marriage. I'm still researching the adoption angle, but haven't had much luck. Fancy that.
Wonder where we fall on this scale - with education issues like this one. It's really hard to get good numbers here, BTW. We don't require reporting of many procedures to a central reporting agency (the closest thing we have are services insurance companies use to determine risk, based on claims made to them) - so you can say we do BAMF procedures per capita, but it's hard to corroborate. You know the drill. Just listen to how many abortions are done in this country in a year. From both sides. The disparity is enough to toss both of them out as either biased, inadequate or just plain wrong.
However, in Japan, medicine is socialized, and you can get pretty good empirical data - if the assumption that you report all procedures is true. You can get pretty good empirical data in Denmark for that reason - you pay enough for medical care, nobody really thinks it's worth the trouble to side-step the system. (That's subjective as hell, but it's what I've been told over the years.)
Food for thought -
So where are the teen pregnancies? They're blaming the high incidence of chlamydia on inadequate sex education. Japan has an almost non-existent teen pregnancy problem compared to the US - but abortion on demand. But you never hear about it, either. As was once told to me, the Japanese deal with teen pregnancy in one of two ways - abortion or marriage. I'm still researching the adoption angle, but haven't had much luck. Fancy that.
Wonder where we fall on this scale - with education issues like this one. It's really hard to get good numbers here, BTW. We don't require reporting of many procedures to a central reporting agency (the closest thing we have are services insurance companies use to determine risk, based on claims made to them) - so you can say we do BAMF procedures per capita, but it's hard to corroborate. You know the drill. Just listen to how many abortions are done in this country in a year. From both sides. The disparity is enough to toss both of them out as either biased, inadequate or just plain wrong.
However, in Japan, medicine is socialized, and you can get pretty good empirical data - if the assumption that you report all procedures is true. You can get pretty good empirical data in Denmark for that reason - you pay enough for medical care, nobody really thinks it's worth the trouble to side-step the system. (That's subjective as hell, but it's what I've been told over the years.)
Food for thought -
