Japan sex culture: AIDS boom

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Japan Struggles With Surge in AIDS Cases

By NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON
The Associated Press
Saturday, June 4, 2005; 9:47 PM

TOKYO -- A rapid spread of AIDS over the past decade has reached a level that has confounded and alarmed the health establishment in Japan, a country that has long felt protected by a first-rate health system and widespread condom use.

Infections which had stayed at infinitesimal levels are surging at rates similar to developing countries, and some experts say the real number of Japanese with HIV or AIDS is two to four times the official toll.

Many also fear a silent AIDS epidemic is brewing among the nation's sexually active middle- and high-schoolers. Other sexually transmitted diseases _ chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea and the human papillomavirus, or HPV _ are also on the rise.

"Japan is on the brink of going under," says Dr. Tsuneo Akaeda, a gynecologist who raises AIDS awareness by offering free 15-minute blood tests in Tokyo's nightclubs and streets. "They're ignoring that they have diseases, they're ignoring that they are sick."

The official toll of 10,070 HIV/AIDS sufferers in a nation of 127 million people pales next to some countries. Even if the actual figure is closer to 40,000, that would mean roughly 1 in 3,000 are infected, compared to about 1 in 100 in Thailand or 1 in 1,500 in China, according to estimates by UNAIDS, the U.N. body waging the global war on AIDS.

But many in Japan are alarmed at the dangerous mixture of chronic underreporting of cases, a sexually freewheeling youth culture that's less inclined to use condoms or other protection, and the powerful social stigma of a sexually transmitted disease.

Satoshi Kimura, head of the AIDS Clinical Center at the Tokyo-based International Medical Center, estimates that between 20,000 and 30,000 people in Japan don't know they have the virus.

In 2004, a record 1,165 people were reported newly infected, up 14 percent from the previous year _ the same percentage growth rate as in AIDS-hit areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNAIDS figures.

The total number of cases is thought to be doubling at a rate of every four years and could reach at least 50,000 by 2010, the Japan Center for International Exchange said in a 2004 report.

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Time to slip it on...before you slip it in...

[ichigo partygirl]

considering what i have heard about japanese girls and condom use in the beyond fucked forum i am not surprised

[AssKissinger]

Even if the actual figure is closer to 40,000, that would mean roughly 1 in 3,000 are infected

I'm more worried about people not using car seats and seatbelts than condoms. Those stats are extremely unscary. I don't know why it's ripping up Africa but still they've been talking for ages about how AIDS is going to explode in the hetero pop around the first world but year after year it just doesn't happen.

[Andocrates]

Crap now I'm worried, I've had my right hand tested but sometime the left hand sneaks over there.

[Maths Dude]

We are all dead in the end anyway.

[cliffy]

We are all dead in the end anyway.

Yes fuckwit but there are horrible ways to die, worse is the awareness that a simple action would evade such. I prefer to not take such a part in my own demise. I will prefer a different ending and much more palatable. If I have a choice.

[james]

not a single mention in the report of how the rate is surging because of all of us dirty foreigners.

[Buraku]

We are all dead in the end anyway.

Yes fuckwit but there are horrible ways to die, worse is the awareness that a simple action would evade such. I prefer to not take such a part in my own demise. I will prefer a different ending and much more palatable. If I have a choice.

this one was all over the web recently


They also have problems with other diseases
Japan riddled with high suicide rates and Leprosy
see Japanese leper experiments
"Indeed, Japanese leading medical schools had assigned doctors to Unit 731. They returned as pillars of the postwar medical establishment, as deans of medical schools and head of pharmaceutical companies. Lt. Gen. Masaji Kitano, who served as commander of Unit 731 near the end of the war, went on to the director of Green Cross Corp., a leading maker of blood products founded by another Unit 731 veteran.
A senior doctor on the health and welfare ministry's Aids research panel was accused of delaying heat-treated blood products to help a Japanese pharmaceutical company that was behind in developing new sterilised blood products.
More recently, food companies repackaged imported beef as Japanese beef to claim government compensation in the wake of a mad cow disease scare, and last summer Japan Dental Association (JDA) members were charged with bribing senior politicians while the government was reviewing medical fees. Japan's leprosy policy followed a long string of health-related scandals over the years.
One of the most notorious dated back to the 1980s, when more than 1,400 Japanese haemophiliacs were exposed to HIV as a result of the Japanese Health Ministry's failure to ban unheated blood products, despite knowing they risked being tainted.
Japan had leprosy patients that they were kept institutionalized and enslaved long after medical science had developed treatments that would allow them to live in the community.
Many people in the developed world might associate leprosy and leper colonies with a by-gone era.




are you thinking WTF ???

[Kuang_Grade]

not a single mention in the report of how the rate is surging because of all of us dirty foreigners.

It is an AP piece (ie, it's written for us dirty foreigners outside of Japan). Had J media done this, I would expect some red herring factoid, such as visas violations/tourist visits by Gaijin to be mixed in to the copy to try to explain at least a part of the increase.

[AssKissinger]

are you thinking WTF ???

I've mentioned this before but I think the most shocking thing about health care in Japan is how medical professionals are seemingly unaware of how to take universal precautions. Once I was with my wife at the clinic and they had her hooked up to an IV. They left it on too long or did something wrong and her blood spilled out all over the probably unsterile sheets they had her wrapped up in. I watched in amazement as the nurses ran over and fixed the IV and cleaned up the blood without wearing latex gloves.

[Maths Dude]

We are essentially walking corpses, the moment we are born we begin to die.

[Buraku]

We are essentially walking corpses, the moment we are born we begin to die.

Speak for yourself,


I plan to live long, Pro-create and perhaps immortalise myself with minitaure clones






& I'll be avoiding the Jpn AIDS hospitals and Leprosy colonies

[maraboutslim]

Yes, it's a country with no concept of proper medical care, terrible sanitation and a total lack of understanding about environmental hazzards and the hazzards of other people's bodily fluids. All and all an absolutely horribly unhealthy country - the people in it just happen to live longer than any other people on earth!

[Andocrates]

We are essentially walking corpses, the moment we are born we begin to die.

Dude you are killing my buzz.

Yes, it's a country with no concept of proper medical care, terrible sanitation and a total lack of understanding about environmental hazzards and the hazzards of other people's bodily fluids. All and all an absolutely horribly unhealthy country - the people in it just happen to live longer than any other people on earth!

It's ok this board is overrun with Jet teachers, which is the equivalent of being the Mexican bus-boy at a Texas Chile's restaurant, sans the appreciation of having a job.

[oyajikun]

We are essentially walking corpses, the moment we are born we begin to die.

Dude you are killing my buzz.

Yes, it's a country with no concept of proper medical care, terrible sanitation and a total lack of understanding about environmental hazzards and the hazzards of other people's bodily fluids. All and all an absolutely horribly unhealthy country - the people in it just happen to live longer than any other people on earth!

It's ok this board is overrun with Jet teachers, which is the equivalent of being the Mexican bus-boy at a Texas Chile's restaurant, sans the appreciation of having a job.

LMAO

[Samurai_Jerk]

We are essentially walking corpses, the moment we are born we begin to die.

Dude you are killing my buzz.

Yes, it's a country with no concept of proper medical care, terrible sanitation and a total lack of understanding about environmental hazzards and the hazzards of other people's bodily fluids. All and all an absolutely horribly unhealthy country - the people in it just happen to live longer than any other people on earth!

It's ok this board is overrun with Jet teachers, which is the equivalent of being the Mexican bus-boy at a Texas Chile's restaurant, sans the appreciation of having a job.

Haha. I've been a JET and a busboy in a Mexican restaurant. The busboy job was more satisfying but JET paid better and gave me a hell of a lot more vacation.

I think that Korea is going to be hit next with an AIDS epidemic. Talking to Japanese and Korean guys over the years it seems like none of them use condoms. Even when they have sex with prostitutes. They really just don't seem to get it.

AK is right about the whole AIDS scare though. It's been greatly exaggerated over the years and will probably never explode in the hetero-non-IV-drug-using first world. The reason that was done was that as long as it was seen as a homo/junkie disease people wouldn't be sympathetic and would be less likely to fund efforts to fight it. I personally think that the focus on AIDS over other STDs and the exaggeration of the danger is one of the reasons that it is rising among heterosexuals in the first world. People just don't believe in the danger and don't even think about other diseases.

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

[GomiGirl]

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Also the gruesome practice of Dry Sex is common as well. It just sounds foul from a chicks point of view and I can't imagine it being pleasant from the other end either.

[AssKissinger]

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

I don't doubt you, there, but I've heard AIDS activists swear up and down that anal is rare in most parts of Africa and that African HIV proliferation is all about cunt-fucking. My unprofessional opinion is that African AIDS is due to 1)Chronic promiscuous ass-fucking 2) Malnutrition (It's just my theory I cannot back it up but my gut just tells me that HIV is more likely to take hold in malnourished people.) 3) Unsanitary medical practices. Dirty needles.

[AssKissinger]

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Also the gruesome practice of Dry Sex is common as well. It just sounds foul from a chicks point of view and I can't imagine it being pleasant from the other end either.

A man who doesn't like wet cunt has a totally different take on what feels good than I do! They should just fuck their grandmothers! Especially after rigor mortis sets in! Then they can get the dryest cunt in the world and if they pass on the HIV who cares? She's already dead!

[AssKissinger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2993016.stm

A study published in The Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Aids claims awareness of the risks posed by anal sex is ignored in many of the continent's health campaigns.

However, HIV experts reject the findings, maintaining that vaginal sex is the main route of transmission for the Aids virus.

The study by researchers at the University of Tuebingen in Germany proposes that anal sex, both heterosexual and homosexual, is the second biggest cause of HIV transmission in Africa, following transmission in medical settings, such as through dirty needles.


The researchers believe vaginal transmission of HIV is a distant third.



http://iafrica.com/news/specialreport/aids_focus/228955.htm


"Malnutrition and food insecurity heighten susceptibility to HIV exposure and infection, while Aids in turn exacerbates hunger and malnutrition," said Stuart Gillespie of the International Food Policy and Research Institute.

[sirwanksalot]

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Also the gruesome practice of Dry Sex is common as well. It just sounds foul from a chicks point of view and I can't imagine it being pleasant from the other end either.

That doesn't sound fun at all. They should just fuck sandpaper, it'd cause more friction.

[Papa-Lazarou]

I sadly fall into the utterly stupid way of thinking that if a girl looks clean, she is probably disease free.

Ive never cought anything, despite violating massive amounts of women in and around Shibuya.

its only a matter of time though

[Maths Dude]

Have you had a hep B,C and HIV test yet?

[Papa-Lazarou]

Have you had a hep B,C and HIV test yet?

Yeah, clean

Its actually quite hard to transfer from female to male from 1 "enounter" of vaginal sex.

Up trap 2, we're talking a different ball game

[Andocrates]

I tried anal but it's just too much work, the other way is much more relaxing.

You can get more then just STD from sex. I picked up a cell marker (yes cell like biology) from a female Air Force soldier, and it's still causing problems today. I would be very reluctant to tag a J-Girl whose standards allowed shagging me. (I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member - Grocho)

[Samurai_Jerk]

BTW, AK, one of the reasons AIDS spreads among heterosexuals in Africa is that anal sex is commonly used as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Also the gruesome practice of Dry Sex is common as well. It just sounds foul from a chicks point of view and I can't imagine it being pleasant from the other end either.

A man who doesn't like wet cunt has a totally different take on what feels good than I do! They should just fuck their grandmothers! Especially after rigor mortis sets in! Then they can get the dryest cunt in the world and if they pass on the HIV who cares? She's already dead!

I'm with AK. I understand the hot and tight part, but dry!!?? The friction from dry pussy hurts me too. I like it sopping wet.

[Taro Toporific]

...my wife at the clinic and they had her hooked up to an IV. They left it on too long or did something wrong and her blood spilled out all over the probably unsterile sheets they had her wrapped up in. I watched in amazement as the nurses ran over and fixed the IV and cleaned up the blood without wearing latex gloves.

Most (or at least the better ones) Japanese hospitals automatically test for AIDS for any person who is having surgery or significant surgical type procedures.
Specifically for that reason, my nurses will fix and clean up IV mistakes swiftly. The same IV thing happened once to me in the past 3 months of getting IVs here at CLUB DEAD(tm) and it was comforting that the nurses FIRST stopped my bleeding before they fooled around with gloves.

[Taro Toporific]

[AssKissinger]

...my wife at the clinic and they had her hooked up to an IV. They left it on too long or did something wrong and her blood spilled out all over the probably unsterile sheets they had her wrapped up in. I watched in amazement as the nurses ran over and fixed the IV and cleaned up the blood without wearing latex gloves.

Most (or at least the better ones) Japanese hospitals automatically test for AIDS for any person who is having surgery or significant surgical type procedures.
Specifically for that reason, my nurses will fix and clean up IV mistakes swiftly. The same IV thing happened once to me in the past 3 months of getting IVs here at CLUB DEAD(tm) and it was comforting that the nurses FIRST stopped my bleeding before they fooled around with gloves.

Bro, HIV is just one blood born pathogen. Taking universal precautions protects the patients and the health care providers. But they should take the gloves off before giving therapeutic handjobs. I don't even like them to wear gloves during blowjobs but that's just a psychological hang up on my part.

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japan's AIDS stigma hampers treatment, activists say
A strong stigma against AIDS in Japan is hampering access to treatment in the world's second-largest economy, activists said on Wednesday, even as experts warn an explosion of the deadly disease may be looming...Affluent, well-educated Japan may be one of the world's most advanced nations, yet it is also the only such nation where AIDS cases have not dropped dramatically, a situation that AIDS activist Hiroshi Hasegawa blames at least partly on prejudice against both the disease and its sufferers. "In Asia, many people cannot gain access to AIDS treatment due to poverty, but in Japan many people cannot access treatment because of the strong stigma," Hasegawa told a news conference...more...