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[Dominique]

If you are doing some research on this topic. I just recently watched an episode of SexTV. It's a show aired in Canada on CityTV, if you want to look that up.
The whole episode discussed this topic as well as the obsession with the sailor outfits! It was interesting.

[6810]

what's your access to the minors involved in enjo kosai? Other than that of the courageous noble intervening, all knowing native speaking english teacher?

Are you a friend? A relative? A professional counsellor? How did you meet the student/enjo-kosai participant? etc?

Part of this is to do with boundaries. All too often when discussing, well anything to do with Japan, we rely too much on our very limited experience as foreigners encased in very specific, exclusive bubbles of isolation. Our outside view is always outside and severely limited etc.

I'm not saying don't discuss it. I'm saying, discuss with intelligence, rigour, robustness and sensitivity.

What is old, FYI are arguments in which some-one comes out and says "It's wrong, all those men should be castrated, why don't the parents teach morals to children, oh my god, look at the state of society, oh no, see this is the price Japan pays for being such a consumer society, oh, actually it's all the erotic (pedophilic, fetish etc) manga..."

That's tired. What's also tired is that the voices of the enjo-kosai girls (and boys for that matter) and the people that employ/have relationaships with/molest etc are absent from these English discussions by virtue of the fact that they are Japanese. That they are not english teachers looking at english teaching boards and probably never will be. They are spoken about but never get to do the speaking.

[Rice Paddy Daddy]

Chi-Chi

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