[hanabi]

Maybe they didn't go there for sex. Maybe they just needed a safe place to shoot up.

This isn't just a Japanese phenomenon. In the past few years, I've seen a lot of articles and news stories about hooking up. But part of me thinks this is just the talk of old people. I mean, when I was about 12 I knew of four girls in my school who had to take time off for their pregnancies. It happens, but it doesn't mean everyone is doing it.

[cstaylor]

"Kids are having sex before they know much about it," says Tsuneo Akaeda, the Roppongi health adviser. Precautions are not uppermost in their minds. What child, excited over a new toy, pauses to read the instructions

This is the lady with the "fast food fetish" theory:

Akaeda sees a connection between instant sex and instant food. Both emphasize quantity and convenience over quality. Both implicitly pose the question of whether something so readily at hand is worth anything at all.