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kublikhan
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Why Have Young People In Japan Stopped Having Sex?
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Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren't even dating, and increasing numbers can't be bothered with sex. For their government, "celibacy syndrome" is part of a looming national catastrophe. Japan already has one of the world's lowest birth rates. Its population of 126 million, which has been shrinking for the past decade, is projected to plunge a further one-third by 2060. 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are "not interested in or despise sexual contact". More than a quarter of men feel the same way.
Fewer babies were born here in 2012 than any year on record. This was also the year that adult diapers outsold baby diapers in Japan for the first time.
Aoyama says the sexes, especially in Japan's giant cities, are "spiralling away from each other". Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" - easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons. Or else they're opting out altogether and replacing love and sex with other urban pastimes. Aoyama cites one man in his early 30s, a virgin, who can't get sexually aroused unless he watches female robots on a game similar to Power Rangers.
Mendokusai translates loosely as "Too troublesome" or "I can't be bothered". It's the word I hear both sexes use most often when they talk about their relationship phobia. Romantic commitment seems to represent burden and drudgery, from the exorbitant costs of buying property in Japan to the uncertain expectations of a spouse and in-laws. Japan's Institute of Population and Social Security reports an astonishing 90% of young women believe that staying single is "preferable to what they imagine marriage to be like".
The sense of crushing obligation affects men just as much. Satoru Kishino, 31, belongs to a large tribe of men under 40 who are engaging in a kind of passive rebellion against traditional Japanese masculinity. Amid the recession and unsteady wages, men like Kishino feel that the pressure on them to be breadwinning economic warriors for a wife and family is unrealistic. They are rejecting the pursuit of both career and romantic success. "It's too troublesome," says Kishino, when I ask why he's not interested in having a girlfriend. "I don't earn a huge salary to go on dates and I don't want the responsibility of a woman hoping it might lead to marriage." Japan's media, which has a name for every social kink, refers to men like Kishino as "herbivores" or soshoku danshi (literally, "grass-eating men"). Kishino says he doesn't mind the label because it's become so commonplace. He defines it as "a heterosexual man for whom relationships and sex are unimportant".
Why Have Young People In Japan Stopped Having Sex?
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young people in Japan just don't want or have any interest, in commitment to the other sex, nor do they seem to have any interest in procreating in a narrow sense, or sex in a broad one. Whether it is the women's fault, described as "so infatuated with their careers that work trumps a boyfriend or husband", or men "a generation obsessed with virtual reality and so intimidated by real women that they prefer cyber girlfriends over real relationships" is unknown, and irrelevant. Japan has a "seemingly infinite menu of relationship replacement services."
Video: The Japanese Love Industry
"Sex Sells And The Japanese Are Buying": A Look At Japan's Love Industry
So we have a teen pregnancy problem over here. But in Japan they don't even want to have sex? Anyone watch the video? One of the "sex services" provided was to have a girl clean out your ears with a Q-Tip. Then there's the guys who can only get aroused by robots. These guys really need to unplug and get out more.
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Japan owns and I'm an asexual virgin hikikomori, OP
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Fast Luck
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Because all sex is rape
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hassan-i-asher: majorin in takin pictures
dreamin bout wayne from catalina wine mixers
listen little friend stay outta the deep end
cuz you're less street than vampire weekend
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stoned@chayliss
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its not just in japan but also i hear over in europe.
some kind of cultural hangover from WWII as one thoery i dunno
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-667-
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Why would you want a nagging woman and some snotface kid to suck the life and money out of you, when you live in a society where you won't get into a sex offender registry for a good pastime: paying someone $100 to wear an anime costume and shit in a bathtub while you masturbate watching?
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Fast Luck
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Well yeah
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
hassan-i-asher: majorin in takin pictures
dreamin bout wayne from catalina wine mixers
listen little friend stay outta the deep end
cuz you're less street than vampire weekend
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hassan-i-sabbah
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quote:
Originally posted by -667-
Why would you want a nagging woman and some snotface kid to suck the life and money out of you when you can have sex with a man?
Fixed, for me.
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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-667-
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quote:
Originally posted by hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by -667-
Why would you want a nagging woman and some snotface kid to suck the life and money out of you when you can have sex with a man?
Fixed, for me.
Can't argue with that one.
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Fast Luck
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You guys are gay
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i zero bagged your mother
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
hassan-i-asher: majorin in takin pictures
dreamin bout wayne from catalina wine mixers
listen little friend stay outta the deep end
cuz you're less street than vampire weekend
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Tupac
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quote:
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You guys are gay
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foonat
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quote:
Originally posted by Tupac
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
You guys are gay
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i rather be a pedophile than a homo
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Durrr, yeah all asexual people are just gay people hurrrr. Way for this forum to show its ignorance.
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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Fast Luck
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Originally posted by hassan-i-sabbah
Durrr, yeah all asexual people are just gay people hurrrr.
Well yeah.
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i zero bagged your mother
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
hassan-i-asher: majorin in takin pictures
dreamin bout wayne from catalina wine mixers
listen little friend stay outta the deep end
cuz you're less street than vampire weekend
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foonat
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quote:
Originally posted by foonat
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Originally posted by Tupac
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
You guys are gay
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i rather be a pedophile than a homo
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Can't believe the bigotry and asexual erasure that is going on in what I thought was a fairly progressive web forum.
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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-667-
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I'm gay
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by turtleman
A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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stoned@chayliss
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they walk around with dust masks on....
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I respect players like Chayliss
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
Top quality trolling Chayliss. Hat tip to you
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Originally posted by Sparkz102
also in this post - special shout out to my boy chay
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Scrub
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ASexual
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