Minor Assignment6 (Revised Version)

Sex Education in Japan: Its Problems and Possible Solutions

Thesis statement: Although attitudes towards sex have been corrupted in today’s Japan because of the influence of informal sex information and the lack of formal sex education, this situation can be solved by teaching children the importance of morality and their active communication with the adults.


Ⅰ. Introduction
A. Background information
1. Emergence of sex education
2. “Purity Education”
3. “Student-guidance Model Education”
B. Map
C. Thesis statement

Ⅱ. Current situation
A. Change of sex experience rate
1. Increase of teenagers sex experience
2. Lowering sex experience age rate
B. Loss of sexual health
1. HIV
2. Sexually transmitted disease
C. Avoidance of contraception
1. Less condom use
2. Large number of abortion

Ⅲ. Problems
A. Overflow of sex information
1. Media
2. No limitation
B. Lack of sex education
1. School
2. Parents

Ⅳ. Possible solutions
A. Morality
1. The importance of life
2. The importance of body
B. Communication with the adults
1. Removing “taboo of sex”
2. Relationship that can talk about sex

Ⅴ. Conclusion