Thai Teens Find Porn Cartoons The Most Arousing

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Teenagers find pornographic cartoons ‘the most arousing’

BANGKOK: -- R-rated Japanese cartoons are the most sexually stimulating item for Thai secondary students, a top health official told a press conference on Aids yesterday.

Dr Thawat Suntharacharn, director-general of the Communicable Disease Control Department, revealed the findings of a survey of 3,000 Bangkok students, interviewed in August and September.

He said 72 per cent of them ranked the R-rated Japanese cartoons as the thing most setting their mood towards sex.

This was followed by pornographic video discs and Internet pornography, at 67 and 61 per cent, respectively.

Dr Thawat said 7 per cent of the teens admitted to having had sex and 6 per cent said the first time was between the ages of 13 and 15.

The students said they had sex due to the temptation of being alone with their boyfriend or girlfriend, or curiosity and fear of being dumped, he said. Some 11 per cent of sexually active girls said they wanted to keep score of their number of partners.

“This is worrying, as only 7 per cent of sexually active teens use condoms,” he said.

The low rate of condom use has convinced the Public Health Ministry to allocate Bt37 million for the purchase of 24 million good-quality condoms for 156,000 “at-risk” people. This includes sex workers, people living with sexually transmitted diseases, migrant labourers and youths.

The ministry plans to install 4,575 vending machines nationwide and sell the condoms cheaply – three for Bt10, Thawat said.

It also hopes that by the end of next year, the proportion of youths using condoms during sex will rise to 50 per cent, he said.

“We have to admit reality. We’re campaigning for youths to keep their virginity – but when we cannot stop, we have to teach them about safe sex,” Thawat said.

Speaking at a conference to publicise World Aids Day [December 1], Thawat said that more than 40 million people around the world were now believed to be HIV-positive and among the 4.9 million new cases this year, half were young people aged 15 to 24.

Thailand was estimated to have 1.1 million HIV-positive people. Some 560,000 had died in the 20 years from 1984 to 2004, he said.

This year, 77 per cent of the 18,000 new cases were young people aged 20 to 39, with 84 per cent of them contracting the disease through sex.

The ministry plans to organise a mass bike ride in Pattaya on Wednesday to draw attention to the situation.

About 1,200 people including some with HIV/Aids, actors, activists and the public will ride bicycles for eight kilometres, he said. The event would be aired live on the Modern 9 TV channel.

Meanwhile, HRH Princess Somsavali yesterday presided over the opening of an Aids exhibition at Sanam Luang in Bangkok, which includes exhibits on Aids-related topics and sex education.

--The Nation 2005-11-24

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“We have to admit reality. We’re campaigning for youths to keep their virginity – but when we cannot stop, we have to teach them about safe sex,” Thawat said.

Finally someone who realises which way the wind is blowing. All power to you Khun Tawat. I hope you can make others listen as well.