
The Ministry of Education has made some changes to sex education guidelines with the intention of reducing some of the more graphic images which appear in books aimed at children. The Ministry thinks that educators may have misunderstood their earlier intentions to improve children's sexual knowledge. A project team found that some kindergarten age children were being taught the names of male and female genitalia from pictures in textbooks (Sapporo) elementary school children were shown images of dogs having sex (Otsu) and middle school children were taught how to apply a condom to a test tube. Trivia point: the names of the dolls shown below, commonly used in sex education classes, are "Suzy" and "Fred".

Japanese story here.