Promiscuous casual sex among young Japanese
A culture of promiscuous casual sex among young Japanese has boomed over the last decade.
Surveys suggest that many young Japanese maintain multiple sekusutomo —literally “sex friends.” According to a joint study by the University of California San Francisco and Hiroshima University, of 602 teens (age 15 to 19) surveyed in the Shibuya section of Tokyo recently, 43 percent said they keep five or more sex friends at a time. In a similar survey of 16-year-olds in two rural prefectures, 20 percent of boys and 18 percent of girls said they have at least five sex partners. “To many young Japanese people, everything about sex is casual,” says Masako Ono-Kihara, a public-health expert at Hiroshima University School of Medicine. “Girls now share their boyfriends like they’d share chips. Everyone’s hand is in the bag.”
And they rarely practice safe sex, relying on Japan's virtually HIV-free status for safety, which worries local health authorities. This story is from Newsweek, not Wai Wai.
