일본 피임실천에서의 콘돔 우세 경향 연구

Abstract

This paper examines the process of changing the role of condoms, which has been the most important contraceptive method in Japan for decades. This will demonstrate that the dominance of condoms among Japan's contraception practices is not a naturally formed social phenomenon, but an artificial one that reflects the nation's population view. Japan has a rare pattern of contraception in the world. For nearly 70 years condoms have a commanding lead in contraceptive measures. The reason why condoms were spread to contraceptives was family planning that was introduced in the 1950s. Japan has recognized its population as human resources since World War I. To increase the birth rate, government strictly prevented contraception knowledge and means from being distributed to the public. It was a natural result that the private sector had no knowledge of contraception except for some classes during the 1945 defeat. With the loss of colonies and the influx of returnees, the pressure of the population has increased sharply, and the baby boom that has led to the family planning is made up of the state. When access to contraception was withheld and information and means were provided by the state, individuals who were demanding reproductive control had no choice but to rely on them and eventually create a phenomenon in which certain contraceptives prevailed. The spread of contraceptive means such as condoms and pessaries, was the result of a interacts between need for family planning projects and national concerns about population decline. This paper analyzes the historical development of this process around the state's (Japan's) intervention in condoms (stance and policy) and draw out the implications of Japan's unusual ‘condom dominance trend’.