Japanese experts have challenged a survey’s claims that “celibacy syndrome” is a credible cause of the country’s low birth rate and that young Japanese people are alone in showing less interest in sex. The most recent poll suggests there has been a steady rise in the number of Japanese virgins. A similar study in 2005 found that only a third of young single people had never had sex. Five years later, the number of unmarried virgins had risen to 36.2% among men and 38.7% among women. I remember talking to married Japanese men about their sex lives and how they had stopped having sex after having children.

Source: The Guardian September 28, 2016 11:18 UTC