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REVIEW: Sex Ed 120% GN 2

It’s really frustrating to hear about the shrink wrap. Maybe if I’m being extremely generous, there’s later content to warrant that, but the last series I can remember being shrink wrapped was Lady Snowblood and Red River, and those were both back in the early 00’s.

Actually, there's a very high number of shrink-wrapped manga these days.

Sixty years have passed, entering the 21st century, large gaps in access remain, driven by politics, poverty, or cultural concerns. For instance, Japan, one of the largest and most developed economies in the world. It surprised me that the first birth control pill was introduced to Japanese 40 years after it became a daily routine for most western women. In fact, Japan was the only U.N. member to not approve oral contraceptives to be an over-the-counter medicine while other countries did, and this delay has had a knock-on effect on the pill’s popularity to this day. And since the pill in Japan remain to be a prescription medicine, it can’t be advertised openly, which is why isn’t hard to imagine Japanese people’s understanding of pill remains low.

Only recently, the national diet had heated debates over whether the pill should remain restricted in Japan by prescription. For now, access to oral contraceptives in Japan requires a doctor’s prescription and the average cost is around 2-3000 yen per pill, which is an unacceptable price for many. However, we could expect to see some changes taken place pretty soon, perhaps as fast as next year. According to the Asahi Shimbun, many Japanese are urging their government to ease rule on the sale of birth control pills, give people the right to buy the pill without any doctor’s prescription. The Suga cabinet is leaning towards making this possible and had actually put the contraceptive bill forward. If this act does pass the legislative process, would be considered a great leap forward and bring Japan in line with other 100 plus developed countries.

It’s really frustrating to hear about the shrink wrap. Maybe if I’m being extremely generous, there’s later content to warrant that, but the last series I can remember being shrink wrapped was Lady Snowblood and Red River, and those were both back in the early 00’s.

Japan didn't even approve the birth control pill until 1999 - 4 decades after it was developed. So they don't talk about it much:

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Sixty years have passed, entering the 21st century, large gaps in access remain, driven by politics, poverty, or cultural concerns. For instance, Japan, one of the largest and most developed economies in the world. It surprised me that the first birth control pill was introduced to Japanese 40 years after it became a daily routine for most western women. In fact, Japan was the only U.N. member to not approve oral contraceptives to be an over-the-counter medicine while other countries did, and this delay has had a knock-on effect on the pill’s popularity to this day. And since the pill in Japan remain to be a prescription medicine, it can’t be advertised openly, which is why isn’t hard to imagine Japanese people’s understanding of pill remains low. Only recently, the national diet had heated debates over whether the pill should remain restricted in Japan by prescription. For now, access to oral contraceptives in Japan requires a doctor’s prescription and the average cost is around 2-3000 yen per pill, which is an unacceptable price for many. However, we could expect to see some changes taken place pretty soon, perhaps as fast as next year. According to the Asahi Shimbun, many Japanese are urging their government to ease rule on the sale of birth control pills, give people the right to buy the pill without any doctor’s prescription. The Suga cabinet is leaning towards making this possible and had actually put the contraceptive bill forward. If this act does pass the legislative process, would be considered a great leap forward and bring Japan in line with other 100 plus developed countries.

WOW! I never knew that!

It's also the same with the morning-after pill, which requires a visit to the doctor for prescription first - which kinda defeats the purpose

It's like they don't trust the women to have the relevant knowledge by themselves, without a visit to the doctor

TsukasaElkKite wrote:

WOW! I never knew that!

It's like they don't trust the women to have the relevant knowledge by themselves, without a visit to the doctor