Mr. M

Survey: 40 percent of Japanese not having sex

By HIROKO TABUCHI
Associated Press Writer

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

A record 39.7 percent of Japanese citizens ages 16-49 have not had sex for over 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 birthrate, which fell in 2005 to a record low of 1.26 births in an average woman's lifetime. The decline has stoked fears of impeding 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.

© 2007 The Associated Press.

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monster

i am not surprised at all. I read about this survey back in 2005, they say married jap couples only have sex for about 45 times per year.

I am not sure if i should say this......but here it goes. It is true that some people do insist size doesn't matter. but well the statistics proved it... "mere 25.7 percent of lovers expressing satisfaction in bed."

Maybe jap people don't want to have sex... who knows, after watching some of their audlt TV shows... and various other material... i am not sure they are actually interested in having sex in the traditional sense.

Centurion

Then where do they get their thrill from, playstation and wii?

Zonda

LMAO^^

So this means Jap women must be really hungry for sex? Be back in a few weeks...

Michael

That is interesting to say the least. Italy, last I heard, was also in the negatives or zeros when it came to brithrate per year and the reason behind it was primarily woman and men that did not want to get married because they are purusing their goals.

cawimmer430

What a boring life that must be. No sex!? Not even one-night-stands!?

Mr. M

There's actually a lot of Japanese porn circulating the net, some forums are full of them but I find those stuff pretty distasteful. But they do one of the most hardcore stuff, I think. Something you wouldn't expect from the Japanese...

BTW, Singaporeans also feature lowly in the annual Durex surveys.

NarutoRamen

That's what happens when you have play WoW, Playstation and Wii all day.

Tycoon

LMFAO!

The Artist

im willing to go to japan and get me some..i mean if the women are starved that way