Source: BBC These statistics don't lie!
According to official Japanese government statistics, 42-per cent of single men aged 18–34 have never had sex, and 44-per cent of women in the same age group haven’t either.
That's an amazingly high percentage!
And even when people have lost their virginity, had a relationship and got married, the sex then seems to stop: sexless marriages are also on the rise.
One of the women from the Japanese National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, which conducted this research, said that “people aren’t getting married, they’re not having sex, they’re not having babies”.
So... what are they doing instead?!
Apparently, if they’re men, generally they’re working too hard; Getting lost in VR visor fanatsy's, or simply too scared to talk to women. And the more men do this, the less they are able to communicate with real, adult women, even if they wanted to.
For women, the reasons are slightly different. They also tend to be working too hard, but are also too tired for sex, too disappointed in men to want to have sex with them, and too busy looking after elderly relatives, which is Plus, educated women with a job don’t want to give that up, they don’t want to get married.
Ruth Evans, a presenter of radio show ''No Sex Please,'' on BBC Radio 4 went to Tokyo to investigate what’s happening, says it’s like “an upside down pyramid.”
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Evans explains the phenomenon: ''the reasons there’s so little sex happening is complex and layered – it’s not just because of the reasons stated above. It is more of an issue in industrialised nations. But, also, men don’t seem to know what their role is any more; they fear rejection so they stay with what they know: the cute, the accepting, the virtual. Women no longer need men for financial stability. In Japan women are talked of as “carnivores” and men as [emasculated] “herbivores.”
