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Word: ayumi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1993-1993
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...Japanese seem embarrassed to discuss sex. Parents avoid the subject, though their offspring, like adolescents everywhere, are obsessed with it. "My parents aren't stiffs," allows Ayumi Suzuki, 17, from Togane, near Tokyo, "but it's just not something to talk about with them. I just talk about it with friends." Admits Yumiko Kaga, the mother of two adolescent daughters: "We never discuss sex at home. I feel we should, but . . . I do remember giving my children a book on where babies come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Has Many Accents | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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