I saw a very interesting question on a Q&A website, asking the question: Do Japanese women bathe with their fathers before they get married?
I was a little stunned by this question! I don't know where the questioner heard or saw such news, but it was a sense of blindness to Tarzan. In response to this question, the author conducted investigations and interviews, and gave an answer: Japan does have a mixed bath between fathers and daughters, but women do not bathe with their fathers before they get married. If there is also a "bad habit", it is a specific habit at a specific point, and it is not universal!
▲ How old will the daughter and her father bathe together?
So the question arises again, how old will the Japanese daughter and father be mixed? I will introduce and answer this article.
Last year, she starred in a Japanese TV show, revealing that she is 25 years old, but she will also take a bath with her father, and instantly ignited the discussion of heterosexual father-daughter mixed bathing in Japan, some people agree, some people criticize. For example, in Japanese public bathhouses, there are obvious age restrictions for mixed baths for men and women, but mixed baths between families have their own arguments. However, by the age of 25, most people still mixed with their fathers of the opposite sex, and I think most people are still surprised.
▲Japanese artist Ji Li Cai Bud
Other Japanese entertainers, such as Akiko Matsumoto, also said that she sometimes bathed with her father after she was 20 years old. There have long been discussions in Japan about whether children will grow up to bathe with parents of the opposite sex, but the conclusions can be described as ambiguous. Most readers probably don't understand why there is an ambiguous answer, but in fact it has a lot to do with Japan's "style" culture. (Wind: Willing means bath, in Japan it means bathing)
<h1>Japanese "wind bath" culture</h1>
▲Japan's unique "wind" culture
In Japan, for example, it is very common for children to bathe in a bathhouse with their parents when they are young, but in most countries, even in infancy, they bathe separately with their parents of the opposite sex. In the United States, a daughter over the age of 6 bathes with her father is considered a violation of child protection laws and the father needs to be held accountable. (Bathhouses are known as "money soup" in Japan.)
Fundamentally, Japan is mainly influenced by the following two cultures:
(1) The culture of bathing every day;
(2) The culture of bathing naked with others.
As a result, mixed bathing scenes can still be seen in public bathhouses and hot springs in some parts of Japan.
<h1>History of Japan's "Sento"</h1>
▲Traditional Japanese "Sento" structure
At the end of the Heian period in Japan, "Yuya" appeared in Kyoto, Japan. During the Edo period, it spread to the general commoner, and this era was called "Irie り込み湯", which lasted until the end of Edo. However, at this time, it is still a form of mixed bathing between men and women, and there is no special distinction. By the Meiji era, regulations were introduced to gradually and strictly regulate mixed bathing, and by the middle of the Meiji period, mixed bathing was only available in a few places.
In japan's "Money Soup", there are strict age rules for mixed bathing between men and women, but the rules are not exactly the same in each prefecture. For example, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government stipulates that "mixed bathing is prohibited for men and women over the age of 10." In other words, even if the family exceeds the age limit, it is not possible to mix baths with the opposite sex in public baths in Tokyo.
In fact, in Japan's public women's baths, many mothers bring boys from elementary school into the baths, and it is not uncommon for other guests to have opinions about this. So in the context of traditional culture like Japan, how old will the average family end the "parent-child mixed bath"?
<h1>There is no age definition of "parent-child mixed bath"</h1>
Some people do not bathe with their parents of the opposite sex from elementary school, some people from junior high school, and some people also bathe with their parents of the opposite sex after the age of 20. Japanese institutions have also investigated this, and most people have concentrated on the following 3 age groups to end the "parent-child mixed bath".
After entering primary school
Some parents believe that the transition from kindergarten to primary school is an opportunity to make their children understand the differences between men and women and make them self-reliant.
Elementary school grades 3 to 4
Nowadays, the development of Japanese girls is very fast, and some girls have "menarche" in elementary school, and their bodies are also changing. Some parents believe that from this period onwards, the "parent-child mixed bath" can be ended.
After graduating from elementary school
Some parents also believe that the primary school period is still the childhood period, and the graduation of primary school is the deadline for ending the "parent-child mixed bath".
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What are the specific examples?
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▲Japanese mixed bath
A 46-year-old man (46 years old) who lives in the Tokyo metropolitan area of Japan, a father with two daughters, the first year of junior high school and the third year of elementary school, finished the "mixed bath" when the eldest daughter was 5 years old. According to the man, it was because his daughter's body had changed, so he ended the mixed bath.
His eldest daughter learned from friends that almost all of her friends would not bathe with her father, so she gradually stopped bathing with her father. Now he still sometimes mixes with his younger daughter, and he thinks that like the eldest daughter, he will naturally end the bathing.
Therefore, a Japanese institution has concluded that no special regulations, perhaps the natural end is the final answer to the "parent-child mixed bath".