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One dissenting website even suggests that the origin of the word "sekkusu" is not English, but Portuguese from "sexo", although this is perhaps unlikely.
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On the subject of "sekkusu," it could have entered the language through the "intelligentsia" via foreign literature or academia.
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In contrast, sekkusu tashi is likely to have been borrowed by laymen to express something that would sound too bold in Japanese.
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I doubt and I may be wrong too that sekkusu tashi was borrowed from a sexology book or journal written in English.
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In contrast, sekkusu tashi is likely to have been borrowed by laymen to express something that would sound too bold in Japanese.
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It seems to me that there is a huge difference between 'coitus interruptus' and a loanword like 'sekkusu tashi'.
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You wrote that It seems to me that there is a huge difference between 'coitus interruptus' and a loanword like 'sekkusu tashi'.
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Similarly, I am guessing (but may be wrong) that "sekkusu tashi" may have a similar "cleaner" sound because it may sound foreign and more educated (especially as English and other Western languages are often perceived in Japan as a languages of knowledge) than the local Japanese equivalent.
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A New York Times article entitled "Japan's Favorite Import From America: English" states that "English words are particularly useful as euphemisms, serving the Japanese preference for approaching delicate topics indirectly...the Japanese use sekkusu when discussing sex, and if they have trouble achieving sekkusu tashi (sex ecstasy, they can consult a sekkusu pato (sex expert.
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Thank you very much for your comments and for the information on the word ‘sekkusu'.
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