戰後初期の男子·男性向け純潔敎育の意義と背景 = “Purity Education” for Men and Boys in Postwar Japan: Its Context and Significance

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Research on the so-called “purity education” (junketsu kyoiku), which has provided the basis for sex education in contemporary Japan, has most frequently framed it as a means to address the problem of prostitution. As a result, most studies have associated it with “women’s history,” with very few using broader frameworks. This study examined arguments among groups that adopted different perspectives on purity education and the raising of awareness regarding sexuality. Specifically, it focused on three organizations―the Japanese Association for Sex Education, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Purity Education Committee―to identify the common arguments from the period when the Ministry of Education’s 1947 Directive No. 1 “Concerning the Implementation of Purity Education” was introduced, until the 1960s, when the surrounding purity-education practices had taken hold regionally. Using this process, the study elucidated that purity education’s association with the problem of prostitution in research was a result of its connection with the pre-war anti-prostitution movement and the relationship between the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Civil Information and Education Division (CIE) of the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers during the post-war occupation period. Thus, the study highlighted the importance of studying purity education from a new and different perspective; namely, the education of men and boys.