Sexuality

The topic of sexuality is a sensitive among teenagers and their parents. Teenagers are not fully mature to decide on their own. The most of times, it will help them if they talked with their parents and follow the decision that they came up with parents. This can be easy for some other topics, but the topic of sexuality will be very difficult for the teenagers to discuss with their parents, especially for Japanese teenagers. It is socially known that sex life should be private and should not be a part of their daily life. Therefore, to talk about sex, Japanese teenagers will have difficult time. However, in U.S. sex life is also see a part of their daily life not something that should be private. In U.S., they try to open this topic of sexuality in public so that teenagers can reach for help when they need it. The school also holds sexuality classes where teenagers can learn what to do and what not to do. That does not necessary mean that teenagers of U.S. talk about their sex life with their friends, but it is most likely that they will have correct information about it. On the other hand, teenagers of U.S. gets ‘double aspects’ of sexuality. Since U.S. is Christian society, teenagers hear that sex before marriage is bad, but what they see from the media is sex. Currently, the pregnancy of teenagers is seen as social problem for both Japan and U.S. It will be impossible to stop teenagers from having sex, but education of sexuality will certainly help teenagers from making mistakes without information. Some people say that this education will encourage the teenagers to have sex, but it will be better for the teenagers to know what they are doing than doing it without knowing.