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Japan History Sex

The History of Sex Education in Japan


More options became available from the Edo Period Onwards

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“My body sticks out in one place. I would like to thrust the part of my body that sticks out into the part of your body that is empty and fill it up.” So spoke the god Izanagi to his wife Izanami in the Kojiki, a sacred collection of Japanese myths, legends and genealogies composed in 712. And also, for the longest time, the closest thing to a sex education manual available in Japan.
It took until the Edo Period (1603–1868) for more sex education options to become available in the country, though access to them often depended on your social status.
Once Tokugawa Ieyasu finalized the unification of Japan and established the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 17 th century, Japan entered an era of more than 250 years of peace. After that, the role of the shogun changed from military commander to CEO of Japan Inc., with his primary duties being the supervision of Japan’s bureaucratic machine and, most importantly, leaving a male heir behind to guarantee a peaceful transition of power after his death. Or better yet, a handful of heirs since, back then, child mortality was high and life expectancy low.
That’s why the sex education of the shogun was treated with the utmost importance. Once it was decided that the time was right, a sex tutor was called in. She’d start by getting naked in front of the future ruler of Japan, explaining how everything worked down there and letting him explore her body. As time went on, she’d also help the young man get familiar with how his equipment worked, ultimately culminating in sex once he came of age. The “student” usually had more than one sex teacher and chose one for each lesson depending on his mood.
These tutors weren’t the shogun’s only source of information about sex but definitely a favored one. It was a highly respectable position and any children that resulted from it (which happened often) were considered the shogun’s legitimate offspring and given lands and titles. The biggest beneficiary of these sex tutors was probably the 11 th shogun Tokugawa Ienari, who used everything he learned to father a grand total of 26 sons and 27 daughters with his wives and mistresses. 
“Shunga” (lit. “spring pictures”) is an erotic subgenre of ukiyo-e woodprints and paintings that exploded in popularity during the Edo Period. This was primarily due to the rise of the merchant class and massive urban growth, resulting in the creation of a feudal middle class with plenty of disposable income and lots of free time, at least when compared to the farmers . Hungry for entertainment, their options were to either sit around and wait for the internet to be invented or start commissioning erotic art and literature. They went with the second option.
Shunga woodprints and paintings were primarily meant to be pornography, but they were also used for comedy or political commentary. More interestingly, though, some were created as sex education material. A feature of shunga that (thankfully figuratively) hits you in the face right off the bat is everyone’s massively enlarged genitalia. Huge phalluses have appeared in Japanese art for centuries before Edo-period shunga, but enlarged vulvas were mostly new, and it’s suspected that, in some cases, it was to provide an educational visual representation of the act of lovemaking. In other cases, experts say, it was simply because people found these super-sized genitalia hilarious.
The educational shunga were usually accompanied by text, hopefully explaining that many of the positions depicted in the old-timey smut were impossible and were just a way to give “readers” a better understanding and view of what goes where. These manuals would apparently be given or lent to newlyweds and thanks to traveling libraries that visited rural areas, they also reached townspeople and peasants alike.
Another popular use of shunga was as illustrations in guides to red-light districts like Yoshiwara, originally established by the government in the 17 th century to contain and control the city’s sex work. You may know it as the setting of the Entertainment District Arc of the Demon Slayer anime, but during the Edo Period, the only way for people to learn about Yoshiwara was through the aforementioned guides or by visiting it yourself. Still, it was usually a good idea to do some research first.
Guides to Yoshiwara explained not just which brothels were the cleanest etc., but also the unique culture of the district. Within the walls of Yoshiwara, there were no social classes and the clients there included everyone from peasants to monks, samurai and aristocrats, all of them looking to experience, learn about, or in some cases teach their sons about sex. Everyone was welcome as long as they had money. But they were expected to carry themselves in accordance with the ideas of iki , an aesthetical concept of effortless elegance and a kind of aloofness explained in great detail in many Edo Period brothel guides. Those who failed to adhere to iki were thought of as rubes and were targeted by disreputable joints looking to bilk them for everything they had. Either way, everyone visiting Yoshiwara in search of sex got screwed in the end.
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i often hear that the sex work is the oldest profession in the world , even if the faction of mothers would have to disagree. Prostitution can be found in any corner of the world and in any historical era, up to the present day, and will most likely exist until the end of our times. The Japan it is certainly not an exception, indeed: perhaps it is one of the most striking examples of how the prostitution was deeply integrated into the culture of an entire society for centuries and centuries.
Sex work has always existed in Japan too, but with the passing of the centuries and the evolution of culture this practice has found different ways to be assimilated by the native culture of the peninsula. Overlooking the prostitution in rural areas, poorly organized and often undertaken by a few individuals per inhabited center, in the most populous areas prostitution could be reached for various reasons. Someone priestesses Buddhists and Shintoists prostituted themselves to perform some ceremonies (ritual prostitution), others to survive when their temples went bankrupt. They were called aruki miko (wandering priestesses) and, although they mainly provided religious services, they were soon associated with prostitution.
Some girls were instead choices from a young age to become sex workers of the highest rank – oiran, maybe you have already heard them? Maybe in one piece ? – and they received a strict education to become the ideal woman. They were sought after in every corner of the country and selected for their beauty and intelligence and educated to deepen their culture and skills. Very few were able to reach this rank, so much prestigious to make them richer, more influential and respected than many of the samurai of their day, versed in the arts of entertainment, poetry, music and calligraphy. Unfortunately, most women encountered prostitution in unfortunate circumstances. Very often out of poverty , own or of a relative who had sold them, perhaps to repay a debt; or, if guilty of crimes or offenses . This type of sex worker, as you can imagine, was the most common and the cheapest to “hire”.
Like anything self-respecting Japanese, there are different names for different categories, for the different stages of training and their job. The most famous, especially here in the West, are the geishas . The common Western conception, poisoned by famous entertainment products, sees them as mere prostitutes dressed in sumptuous fashion. Actually the geishas were the escorts real sex workers: their task was to entertain guests, for example with songs and dances, and they had the explicit ban on lying with customers . For this reason they went to appointments as a couple, in order to control each other, under penalty of severe punishment. They were simple artists even lower in rank than the lowest sex work, that is yūjyo . The geisha apprentices, on the other hand, were called maiko .
Unfortunately, there was a time when geishas had to turn to prostitution as a last resort to survive . When the government implemented a law that prohibited geisha from performing shows, under the guise of “women = promulgators of indecent morality”, in fact snatched their livelihood , since it prevented them from making a living from their skills and art. As you will see numerous times throughout this article, the attempt to tighten the noose around the neck of women and their independence to protect a phantom ideal of morality had always and only the opposite effect, that of push women more and more to the margins of society, towards prostitution, illegality and poverty .
The establishments that served as a base of operations and home for sex work were the famous houses from you ( chaya ): in fact, they had an interest in keeping the competition between their employees alive and they promoted an iron hierarchy. Then there were the kamuro the young choices to undertake the training to become oiran , which would become furisode shinzō first, then yūjyo and finally oiran. Oiran was the highest rank a sex worker could hope to achieve. She was not seen as a mere prostitute, but as the ideal woman : only the wealthiest and most educated men could hope to ask for his services, mainly to “flex” their wealth. The oirans had the right to veto their suitors and, in order to approach them, a rigid courtship process which in total could cost the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars today. Despite their wealth and influence, the oiran were not free and had to provide for all the expenses that kept her subordinates and her expensive lifestyle.
Organized male prostitution in Japan appeared much more recently than female prostitution – around the Edo period – and was caused precisely by a veto on the presence of women on the stages of the kabuki shows . The birth of the kagema or the male sex work . The removal of women from the stage left a void in female roles that was filled by their peers, who often devoted their entire careers to those kinds of roles. We therefore speak of onnagata , while of kagema for apprentices. During their initiatory journey, part of the training involved lying with a man.
Perhaps because of their gender, male sex workers had a much easier life than their co-workers. Generally, they weren’t treated like slaves nor did they have hierarchies . Female sex workers had clients of all kinds background – the important thing was that they paid – and could be bought “exclusively”, or even “redeemed” from prostitution and be taken as a wife by one of their clients . In this case, we are talking about mi-uke . Since there was no institutionalized gay marriage, the kagema did not have access to this possibility, but they could enjoy a smaller and generally more pleasant clientele. In fact, we speak of Buddhist monks and women ōoku (who were part of the shogun’s harem), who came to vent their sexual needs in pleasure quarters. The kagema chayas, their version of tea houses, provided the services of their workers both at home and theirs, upstairs in their factory. With the arrival of the West on Japanese soil, this reality was suddenly abolished in 1842 .
We have talked about – and surely you have heard of them too – about gods districts of pleasure , or Japanese red light district. Well, their empire lasted for centuries to the present day, even surviving the Second World War. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, shogun in 1617 promulgated an ordinance whose effect was of restrict prostitution activities to a single point of the city to facilitate tax collection, traffic control and, of course, city morality. Thus were born the yūkaku , which prospered and expanded to become almost small towns in their own right, as well as home to kabuki theaters. The most famous were those of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.
As you can imagine, the living conditions inside these red light districts were very bad. There was no form of contraception and hygiene was not the best, therefore venereal diseases swarmed . The lowest ranks of sex workers often suffered from starvation or beatings. Not to mention the cosmetics of the time, which men and women used heavily, and which turned out to be toxic. The maximum life expectancy was around twenty / thirty years. The yukaku came for good abolished in 1956 , when the law for the prevention of prostitution was promulgated. The latter was pushed by the western occupiers, who saw it as an unacceptable and shameful reality. But did they really succeed in their intent? Did they really manage to eradicate sex work from Japan?
The answer, of course, is no. In no place, lake or period will sex work ever be eradicated. You can only change the regulations concerning it. Japan, therefore, has chosen to sweep a predominant part of its culture under the rug, removing any state regulation from it . But it continues to exist, of course; just a little more hidden. Today fuzokuten (the Japanese sex industry) embraces any kind of material and activity forbidden to minors: from real prostitution to pornography, from gacha machines with used panties to soaplands. And don’t think the hentai industry is the extreme fanservice present in souls is completely alien to it. The soaplands, however, are perhaps the reality that comes closest to the teahouses of the past. The soapland on the façade, they are public baths in which attractive masseuses are hired… and I hope it is clear what the real purpose of the visit and the service offered is.
To escape the grip of the law, if they were to be discovered, the excuse would be used that it was not prostitution, but spontaneous passion: free sex without transactions. Of course, needless to say, in the absence of state regulation this kind of business ended up in the hands of the yakuza . Here too, Japan operates on the basis of tatemae And hon’ne : as long as the public decorum is (apparently) maintained, everything is fine. The government therefore closes its eyes, mainly in order not to step on the toes of the organized mafia and for its own personal interests. Furthermore, if these realities were also dissolved, sex workers would end up in an even less regulated environment, in even more inhumane conditions.
It is clear that the government currently does not intend to move in this regard: in general, for those found guilty of prostitution the penalties are extremely light, even for those who are guilty of coercion . A video recently went viral in which a proposal to abolish the loophole that allowed the porn industry to exploit underage girls was met with general laughter. The Japanese porn industry is extremely profitable and there seems to be no interest in applying stricter rules, especially in a country like this misogynist . However, with the transition to the new era, there was a group of sex workers who saw their own original restored role: the geishas . Nowadays, geishas are real entertainers as well ambassadors of Japanese culture and they teach posterity their art and promoting it the traditional culture of the Rising Sun.
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i often hear that the sex work is the oldest profession in the world , even if the faction of mothers would have to disagree. Prostitution can be found in any corner of the world and in any historical era, up to the present day, and will most likely exist until the end of our times. The Japan it is certainly not an exception, indeed: perhaps it is one of the most striking examples of how the prostitution was deeply integrated into the culture of an entire society for centuries and centuries.
Sex work has always existed in Japan too, but with the passing of the centuries and the evolution of culture this practice has found different ways to be assimilated by the native culture of the peninsula. Overlooking the prostitution in rural areas, poorly organized and often undertaken by a few individuals per inhabited center, in the most populous areas prostitution could be reached for various reasons. Someone priestesses Buddhists and Shintoists prostituted themselves to perform some ceremonies (ritual prostitution), others to survive when their temples went bankrupt. They were called aruki miko (wandering priestesses) and, although they mainly provided religious services, they were soon associated with prostitution.
Some girls were instead choices from a young age to become sex workers of the highest rank – oiran, maybe you have already heard them? Maybe in one piece ? – and they received a strict education to become the ideal woman. They were sought after in every corner of the country and selected for their beauty and intelligence and educated to deepen their culture and skills. Very few were able to reach this rank, so much prestigious to make them richer, more influential and respected than many of the samurai of their day, versed in the arts of entertainment, poetry, music and calligraphy. Unfortunately, most women encountered prostitution in unfortunate circumstances. Very often out of poverty , own or of a relative who had sold them, perhaps to repay a debt; or, if guilty of crimes or offenses . This type of sex worker, as you can imagine, was the most common and the cheapest to “hire”.
Like anything self-respecting Japanese, there
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