One-third of Japanese men uninterested in sex

http://www.japantoday.com/category/...-indifference-to-sex-among-male-teens-couples

All I can say is Bwaaaaaaaaht?????

 

Numerous Hentai magazines and movies, schoolgirl knickers dispensing machines and love hotels would suggest that the Japanese are interested in sex, but are too societally repressed to develop adult sexual behaviour and opportunities to express it. Instead they kind of stay arrested in pre-pubertal (sex as having a gross fascination, mixed with violent fantasies) and pubertal (pre-occupation with school girls and unrealistic stylised sexualised female icons) sexual fantasy. There's no real women there, no real relationships. Young women meanwhile start emulating the afirementioned empowered stylised female icons. Japan is turning into a nation of Buffy's and Xanders. You knew right from the start who was the alpha teen there, and you knew that Xander never stood a chance at getting her laid.

Add to that a lot of pressures and expectations about traditional male/female roles in marriage, emotional repression and long working hours keeping the couple apart. No wonder they don't stand a chance.

 

that would suck....

 

Though apparently not in a literal sense for the men of Japan...!

I'll get my coat...

 

for an already over-populated country....wouldnt this be a good thing?

perhaps the japanese government has put something in the water...

 

but but but

japanese girls are so uber cute !

 

So i go over there and they are all gagging for it
The above article was a good read though .

 

With a 100mb/s connection to the internet, who needs a women?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bdrates_of_Japan_since_1950.svg

According to the above graph they need our help. It really would bring a whole new meaning to the term missionary

 

What happened in 1965?

As much as they don't like it, I think immigration is going to become a necessary evil for the survival of Japan as a society. I've already heard stories of the government subsidizing the import of South Korean women as wives to Japanese farmers to keep some form of agricultural tradition going.

 

==delete==

 

I'm packing my bags, handing in my resignation and maxing my credit cards, then bugering off to Japan to live the life as a gigolo xD

 

I was going to say The Beatles, but they toured Japan in 1966...

 

Isn't the difference in culture fun?

 

apparently, you will need to pay $34 to read the full abstract, but at the very end of this teaser it mentions an ancient superstition based on the lunar calendar.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/dt3135842h00m153/

more info:J Biosoc Sci. 1979 Oct;11(4):457-64.

Fertility of the Korean population in Japan influenced by a folk superstition in 1966.
Kim YS.

Abstract
PIP: The influence of the Japanese superstition that females born in the year of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire Horse) possess undesirable characters and should not marry on the fertility of the Korean immigrant population in Japan was examined and compared with the influence of this superstition on the Japanese in Japan and the Korean population in Korea. The year of Hinoe-Uma occurs once in every 60 years according to the ancient Sino-Japanese almanac. For both the Koreans in Japan and the Japanese a remarkable drop in crude birthrates and a sharp increase in stillbirth rates was found for 1966. In contrast, Koreans in Korea showed only a steady decline in the crude birthrate. Clearly, the Japanese folk superstition played an important part in discouraging Koreans in Japan from having a child in 1966. The fact that no such effect was apparent among Koreans living in Korea suggests that this phenomenon is due to either the adoption or the mimicry of cultural practices on the part of the immigrant population.

PMID: 511872 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Maybe its because I am accessing it through my Unis network but I can just click on download PDF and access it. Will read in the morning.

EDIT: It almost certainly is, just letting you know I can summarise when I get round to it.

EDIT2: Maybe I should have noticed that the abstract you have was actually complete. Nvm, here is another summary

Its to do with the old calendar system the Japanese used (of Chinese origin). It had two identifies for a year, a decimal system and a duodecimal. The decimal one had elements or natural objects. Duodecimal animals. When they both came round to "fire horse" a new cycle begins. The superstition is that any girl born in this year (called Hinoeuma) would have a harsh temperament and be unlucky. 1966 was this year so the Japanese ensured they had no children that year.

 

Poor Japan.

Poor poor Japan.

 

Thanks for looking that up. Have some +rep!

I think these sorts of reports are things that should be pirated :rolleyes;

 

how come you always hear stories about the koreans ending up as wives to foreigners

 

you're welcome and thanks.

agreed, re: the abstracts. that's some serious price gouging!