Sex: What The Japanese Aren't Doing

(AP)  The secret behind Japan's plunging birth rate?

A record 39.7 percent of Japanese citizens ages 16-to-49 have not had sex for more than a month — up 5 percentage points from two years ago — according to a survey published this week by the Japan Family Planning Association.

Among married couples, the rate was only slightly lower, at 34.6 percent.

"This is very bad news for the country's birth rate, and something the government needs to look into urgently," said Dr. Kunio Kitamura, the family planning association's director.

The survey comes amid concerns over Japan's faltering birth rate, which fell in 2005 to a record low of 1.26 births in an average woman's lifetime. The decline has stoked fears of impending tax revenue shortfalls and labor shortages.

"The situation is dismal," Kitamura said. "My research shows that if you don't have sex for a month, you probably won't for a year."

Kitamura partly blamed stress from busy working lives. A decline in physical communication skills in an increasingly Web-based society was also a factor, he said.

The association said it handed out survey forms to 2,713 randomly selected people and received responses from 636 men and 773 women in November 2006. It gave no margin of error. In a similar poll taken two years ago, 35 percent reported having no sex for a month.

Japan came last in a 29-country study of sexual satisfaction published by the University of Chicago last year, with a mere 25.7 percent of lovers expressing satisfaction in bed.

The country was also in last place among 41 nations in a 2005 poll by condom manufacturer Durex, with people having sex just 45 times a year compared to a global average of 103.

[iceman_1960]

"My research shows that if you don't have *** for a month, you probably won't for a year."

And you wonder why Lindsay Lohan wound up in rehab ?

[iceman_1960]

"A record 39.7 percent of Japanese citizens ages 16-to-49 have not had *** for more than a month"

Too much time is being spent on the Internet. Obviously.

Perhaps the president should send Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani over there to explain to the Japanese why s*e*x is so much more fun than surfing the Web.

[ajaxrose1]

It's so crowded they're probably glad to have any time alone they can get. They want to crowd even MORE people in? Sounds to me like they have a pretty good handle on the overpopulation problem.

[middleman8]

right on erasmus6:

it must be a carry over from north vs. south.
and the glorious civil war.

[bildooreilly]

You've obviously never been to Japan, it's probably the most sexually liberal country on the planet. Though very conservative in everyday life, the japanese are superfreaks and they don't hide it... I've never seen a pornography magazine vending machine out on the street before I went to Japan, public bathrooms, bars where you can go in and have *** with women on stage, it's a totally wacky place.


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Good for the Japanese people in managing their mating and securing more dignity for their women.

At least one nation is not spreading ***-addiction and the warped behaviors that come with it.

Over here our women are becoming lost, and loose hoes; thus making them more disrespected by males.
Posted by Agnim at 08:48 PM : Mar 15, 2007

[golfkt]

Same Japanese women are beautiful...
I am headed to Japan to save them...if I die in my quest to save the Japanese women, at least I will have a smile on my face....

[formrusmcsgt]

What would be interesting to see is WHY the Japanese have to a large degree are not engaging in ***.

Work demands, the choice of more Japanese women to remain single, social issues, a combination ....?

[beehive21-2009]

Japanese babes are cool ,I would'nt what one of the guys either.I'm going for the babes ,happy hunting .

[agnim]

Good for the Japanese people in managing their mating and securing more dignity for their women.

At least one nation is not spreading ***-addiction and the warped behaviors that come with it.

Over here our women are becoming lost, and loose hoes; thus making them more disrespected by males.

[cmp271]

Maybe we need to send over some of our porn industry actors and actresses.

This is a country that sells condoms in machines on the street. And other stuff to go with it.