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In Reply to: Re: it seems to me posted by Wondering on August 27, 2004 at 19:33:53:
By the time Berg got to Japan the Family had opened its eyes more to the dangers of the child/adult sex relationships and were beginning to put in measures to stop it. But, thinking back...
Berg came to the HCS (first living nearby, later on the grounds) in 1987 or so (dates have escaped my memory--85 was the TTC, 87 was the JLC, so maybe it was 88 or 89). Anyway, at the HCS they had grouped together a bunch of teens from the PI, India, Japan, and other countries. At first they instituted the 'Word Dates' which were basically a nice way of saying 'sharing schedules for teens' as there were no real rules as to what you could do and where to go, and some of the classes SaraD gave the teens were along the lines of giving head, how to masturbate, etc..
There were a few wild 'cum' parties held in the teen wing, with low lights, futons laid out, everyone partnered up. To my shame at the time, I was very reserved, and because of my age (18) I had been given a choice to either be a 'teen' or 'adult' (no YAs). I chose to be an 'adult' as I felt better adapted in the adult world, and there were a few others my age who had chosen the same world. But we were still invited to teen activities and meetings and classes. But I managed to avoid all the wilder activities 'cause I just wasn't comfortable with the idea of fooling around with some 12 or 13 year old
Then they realised there was going to be a problem with pregnancies, so they took a drastic change in making age limits and rules that if you got pregnant at 15 you'd have to leave the country, or get married, and they began pushing teen marriage. It seems around that time the whole teen sex thing died down and there wasn't that much of it going on. This was a super big change for some of the older teens who were used to a regular sex schedule and partners, and had been even lining up to have sex with their favorite nannies since they were 11 or 12, and the weren't so happy with it. But the eventual result was 3 or 4 teen marriages (most of which eventually broke up).
Shortly after that I believe Berg moved out of there, but that's around the time attention was turned and focused more on teen problem cases and the beginning of the victors, and focus was turned away from sex and more to training and discipline. So, they went from one problem of sex to the problem of physical abuse.
I believe that the time when Japan had more problems of adult/teen sex was during Faithy's reign in the early 80s. I wasn't in Japan then, but I've heard some pretty wild stories from both adults and teens who were there and part of the scene, and my little reserved self thanked God that we hadn't come to Japan any earlier, I don't know that I'd have survived.
So, maybe the problem was actually Faithy and she was responsible for spreading and promoting Berg's looser/freer ideas and practices in regards to sex?
