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Ishihara opposed to outlawing child sex
September 27, 2004
Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has voiced his opposition to suggestions made in a
metropolitan government panel that children below junior high school age be
banned from having sex.
"I think it's going a bit far to say we should create an ordinance to outlaw
sex for junior high school children," Ishihara said.
The governor later added: "Of course, we don't think it's a very good thing to
have junior high school children running around having sex. Tokyo wants to make
sure it gives them every chance to have a wholesome upbringing, but in the end,
sex is a very private matter and, despite our responsibilities, it's not really
an area we should be encroaching on."
Ishihara was responding to a suggestion made by a member of the panel he set up
to discuss countermeasures to problems being caused by rampant teenage sex in
the capital.
Teenagers at junior high and high school in Tokyo have been responsible for
rapidly escalating rates of abortion and sexually transmitted diseases in
recent years.
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