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Ce n'est pas le premier article que je vois sur le sujet, je me souviens avoir aussi lu des articles s'inquiétant de manga pour très jeunes filles qui n'hésitaient pas à représenter sans complexes des relations sexuelles entre mineurs assez jeunes. J'ai eu l'occasion d'en voir, et j'avoue que j'ai été assez interloquée.

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Kids more inclined to 'bed' with others

By GEOFF BOTTING
Shukan Bunshun (Dec. 23)

Ask a group of girls in their early teens about their views on sex, and you'll get some alarming responses.

"The younger you are when you have sex, the more status you get," pronounces a second-year junior high school student in Hyogo Prefecture.

A fifth-year elementary school girl says, "Girls who have sex when they're young get larger breasts."

"It's more fun that any game or video game," a second-year junior high school student confides.

No doubt about it, more and more early-teen females have few reservations about having sex, according to Shukan Bunshun.

A 2002 survey of girls in the third grade of junior high school found that 9.1 percent were sexually experienced. The rate had nearly tripled from the findings of a similar poll conducted in 1991. What's more, the rate has accelerated at breakneck speed in just the last couple of years.

"At the moment, we're dealing with a 12 percent rate," says Tsuneo Akaeda, a prominent gynecologist. "The decrease in the ages of youngsters having sex for the first time is a nationwide trend, to the extent where we can no longer say 'at least it's not my kid.' "

Why are more and more girls having sex at younger and younger ages?

The simple answer is that sex has become trendy among junior high kids, and even those in the last couple of grades of elementary school.

"It feels like nothing but a game or a fashion for them," says Fusako Araki, who is in charge of puberty issues at the GS Clinic in Chiba Prefecture.

Young girls have told her that the number of times they have sex is an index of their worth in the eyes of their peers.

"They do it in such unsanitary places as karaoke cubicles," Araki says. "Too many of these kids don't have a lot of respect for their bodies."

The problem starts with the pressure to be cool. For low teens and even younger kids this pressure has never been more intense. A big part of being cool is wearing the right clothes and looking the right way. So fashion- and cosmetic- makers, recognizing this, have responded by marketing products exclusively to pre-adult age groups.

The result is that kids barely out of puberty are forced to look, and even act, not as kids but as "small adults," in the words of Shukan Bunshun.

"That interim period when girls actually look pubescent has become extremely short nowadays," says a 42-year-old teacher at a junior high school in Kanagawa Prefecture. "Yet at the same time, these kids are psychologically weaker than their counterparts have been in previous years." It's a dangerous imbalance, the teacher says, that creates a host of insecurities for the youngsters, including those concerning sex.

What these kids need, of course, is better advice and guidance. Unfortunately, they can't rely on their parents for that.

"Even though in Japan we know that children must be properly taught about sex, most parents just don't bother," says Yukio Takekawa, a member of the Children Sex Education Research Network. "If they're silent on the topic, believing that their kids will somehow just pick up the knowledge or hoping that the teachers do all the teaching, then the young girls will just take in all the information that is available out there, including all the misinformation. No wonder they're out of control."


The Japan Times: Dec. 26, 2004
(C) All rights reserved

Source : http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20041226tc.htm

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Ah ben justement j'ai retrouvé l'autre article, le voici. L'article se veut tout de même rassurant, et écarte l'idée de l'influence que pourrait avoir la lecture de manga sur les comportements sexuels des jeunes. Finalement, les manga ne feraient que refléter une certaine réalité...


Smells like little girl spirit in raunchy manga

By Ryann Connell - Staff Writer - December 11, 2004

Tokyo housewife Yoshimi says she got the fright of her life when she had a look at the type of manga her 12-year-old daughter was reading.

"I started shaking in terror from the moment I turned the page. I never dreamed my daughter was reading such a shocking manga," the 40-year-old mom tells Sunday Mainichi (12/19).

What Yoshimi saw on those pages of that manga was a young schoolgirl, her uniform ripped open to bare her breasts and cords binding her to all limbs were extended. Behind the girl stood a boy of about the same age who was rubbing between her legs and inducing a look of sheer ecstasy on her face. The boy turned to the girl and said, "You still haven't come yet, right?" and sent his probing fingers driving even deeper into the girl's welcoming recesses.

Steamy stuff even for adult magazines for grown men or women, but totally startling considering they were actually found in a shojo manga, one that deliberately targets girls in their early teen years.

"They're selling in ordinary bookstores and my daughter buys them with her pocket money," Yoshimi says. "I liked manga, too, when I was a kid and I wasn't worried at all when my daughter first started reading them."

Yoshimi's worried now...and so are others.

"Manga for teenage girls are becoming increasingly raunchy. There're about 30 shojo manga on the market. Those following a particular storyline for several issues are still in the majority, the number of manga dealing with sex themes started to grow rapidly about three years ago," shojo manga expert Yayoi Kobayashi tells Sunday Mainichi, adding that topics once even taboo among adults, think of incest and pack rape, pop up in little' girl's comics. "You've got to think that theses comics are being read by girls who perhaps a year earlier hadn't even begun budding breasts and they're now reading stuff like, in one manga for instance, finding a young boy to 'train' and turn into a sex toy. It even made me feel sick."

A popular shojo manga editor explains why he thinks little girls like the raunchy materials.

"Manga editors and artists do nothing more than reflect the world around them and provide fiction that the times are calling for," the editor says.

Kids don't seem too perturbed by their reading matter.

"Of course I'm interested in sexy stuff and it's a bit exciting to read it," a sixth grader from Tokyo tells Sunday Mainichi. "But I know there's a difference between manga and reality and I don't pay much attention to what I read."

A third-year junior high school pupil is dismissive of the attacks on shojo manga.

"Before adults get stuck in to attacking comics, they should thing about all the dirty sites on the Internet and all the sex-related spam we get. They're much bigger problems," she says. "You can see people getting down to the real thing in those places. At least with manga it's clearly a fantasy world."

Some schoolgirls say raunchy shojo manga are no threat at all.

"Cool girls are already out with their boyfriends having sex and couldn't give a damn about manga," a third-year junior high schoolgirl from Kanagawa Prefecture says. "Just sitting there reading a manga is proof that the girl is not cool, which naturally means she hasn't got a boyfriend and isn't having sex. Rather than being worried (by shojo manga), parents should feel at ease."

Some girls, like another in her final year at a Tokyo middle school, find sexy shojo manga educational.

"I'm less worried about when I lose my virginity, but how it's going to happen. I want it to feel good and I suppose I've got to satisfy my boyfriend, too. I don't want to have uncool sex, but, to be honest, I haven't got a clue about how to do it," she tells Sunday Mainichi. "When I look at the girls in the shojo manga who are doing 'love play,' I'm amazed at how much they know, I feel really jealous."

Psychiatrist Tamaki Saito says shojo manga pose no threats.

"Manga, or any other media for that matter, are hardly likely to influence girls' sexual behavior," he tells Sunday Mainichi. "Girls have already learned about sex from their friends or amongst themselves. Information they learn that way is going to have a far greater influence over what they do."


Source : http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0412/1211manga.html

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