A selection of readers' responses to "Foreigners victims, perpetrators of sekuhara" (Zeit Gist, Oct. 26) by Steve Silver:
I am a teacher in Kanagawa, and the situation you described at the various schools of sexual harassment victims is very similar to my own. They key difference is that I am male.
At my junior high school, boys constantly ask about my penis and body in general in both English and Japanese. They ask how big my penis is, whether they can touch it, whether I masturbate, etc. I should also add that the Japanese teachers around me seem to think this is totally normal.