無菌化されゆく教育

■Title:　The sterilization of education

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■Size:　95cm×120cm

■Material:　塩化ビニール
　　　　　　Vinyl chloride

■Year:　2018年

■ステートメント
東京都の中学校で、2018年3月に行われた性教育の授業を巡って議論が起きた。
「性交渉というのは最も深いふれあい。性交渉をしないのが一番安全。」というわけのわからない指導案だけでは留まらず、避妊や人工妊娠中絶の
方法について具体的な話をしたという点に都の教育委員会が問題視したのだ。
「セックス」や「中出し」までいかなくとも、「性交」「避妊」「中絶」という言葉でさえ使用禁止なんだそう。
性交なんてものは人から教えられるものではなく、本能的に備わっている性欲によるものであるにも関わらず、人工的な「避妊」も「中絶」も
知識としてなければ悲劇につながるのは当たり前のことだ。
中高生の妊娠中絶、小遣い欲しさによる売春、経済難による乳児の置き去りや虐待死、身内による性的虐待もそうだが、「性」に閉鎖的な
あまり、草食系というジャンルが生まれたり、エリート街道を走ってきた政治家による売春というスキャンダルも生まれるのかもしれないし、
逆に少子化にもつながっているのかもしれない。
学校で教える性教育の質の低さや、そもそも性の話をするということに閉鎖的な国民性もあるのも事実だ。
俗に「おまんこ」や「オメコ」と呼ばれるものを、教育に悪いや恥ずかしいからと「めちんちん」「おちょんちょん」「おぱんぽん」「おまぽこ」
「ワレメちゃん」「おてんてん」「おだいじちゃん」などという名前を、国の教育者が一所懸命考えているというのだから滑稽だ。
名称を変えたから何になるというのか。

　1980年代前半、二重丸の中央に縦線が一本。周囲に短い線が放射線状に描かれているマークを校舎や公衆トイレの壁によく見かけた。
一見、地図記号のようにも見えるが、実は女性の陰部を図形化したものだ。昭和の人間は懐かしく思う。
もちろんこんなモノを公共の場所に落書きするのは不良少年達だが、恐らく彼らも本物は見たことなく、当時は現在と比較すると無修正画像等の
情報入手も困難なので、年上から教わったか、せいぜい裏ビデオを見たけど表現力が乏しいのでこれくらいの絵しか描けなかったのかだろう。
ただ、このマークは何故かインターネットも無い時代に、ほぼ全国的に広がった。
それだけ思春期の男子には刺激的だったと想像できる。性教育を放棄した教育者達が行う、この不自然な日本の性教育が義務教育中にされているうちは、
卑猥な言葉は覚えても、経験もないしそれが何かもわからない。
自分達が現在存在しているのも、両親を含めた先祖がセックスしたおかげだということを認識し感謝するのが自然ではないだろうか。
隠蔽体質をやめ、大人になれる教育を考えていけば、少子化も軽減できるかもしれないことを、思春期にこじらせて大人になっても「性」に対し屈折した
考えを持つ大人達へ告ぐ。

■Statement
A controversy arose in a Tokyo junior high school regarding a sex education lesson conducted March 2018.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education took issue not only with the nonsensical lesson plan stating, "Sexual intercourse is the deepest form of intimacy. Not having sex is the safest option," but also because the lesson included specific discussions on contraception and abortion.
Apparently, even the words "sexual intercourse," "contraception," and "abortion" are prohibited, even if they don't go as far as "sex" or "ejaculation inside."
Sexual intercourse is not something that can be taught; it's an instinctual desire. Yet, without knowledge of artificial methods like "contraception" and "abortion," it's obvious that tragedy can result.
Abortions among junior and senior high school students, prostitution for pocket money, abandonment and death of infants due to economic hardship, and sexual abuse by family members are all examples, but perhaps the closed-mindedness towards "sex" is what gives rise to the "herbivore" genre, and scandals such as prostitution by politicians who have followed the elite path, and conversely, it may also be contributing to the declining birthrate.
It is also true that the quality of sex education taught in schools is poor, and that there is a national character that is closed off to talking about sex in the first place.
It is ridiculous that educators in the country are working so hard to come up with names for what are commonly called "omanko" or "omeko" such as "mechinchin," "ochonchon," "opanpon," "omapoko," "wareme-chan," "otenten," and "odaiji-chan" because they think it is bad for education or embarrassing.
What difference does it make to change the name?
In the early 1980s, a single vertical line in the center of a double circle. A mark with short lines radiating around it was often seen on the walls of school buildings and public restrooms.
At first glance, it looks like a map symbol, but it is actually a graphic representation of female genitalia.People from the Showa era feel nostalgic about it.
Of course, it was delinquent boys who would graffiti such things in public places, but they probably hadn't seen the real thing, and compared to today, it was difficult to obtain uncensored images and other information, so they probably learned about it from older people, or at best watched adult videos, but their expressive abilities were limited, so they could only draw something like this.
However, for some reason, this mark spread almost nationwide even in an era without the internet.
It can be imagined that it was quite stimulating for adolescent boys. As long as this unnatural Japanese sex education, conducted by educators who have abandoned sex education, continues during compulsory education,students may learn obscene words, but they have no experience and do not understand what it is.
Isn't it natural to recognize and be grateful that our current existence is thanks to our ancestors, including our parents, having had sex? If we abandon our culture of concealment and focus on education that helps people mature, we might be able to mitigate the declining birthrate.
This is a message to adults who, due to complications during adolescence, still hold distorted views on "sex" even as adults.

■Place
元崇仁小学校跡 | 京都
ex-Suujin Elementary School | Kyoto