Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

[Svartalf]

Dammit, and I hear it's the english who are industrious to our being indolent and lazy ...

[Clinton Huxley]

Population due to drop by a third. That's a lot. By 2060 Blighty could have a larger population than Japan, as we are projected to go beyond 80 million.

[JimC]

They took the "chocolate is better than sex" meme seriously...

[Trinity]

High stress is a cause of low/no libido, maybe they need to all chill, man.

[Animavore]

Computer games.

That's my theory.

[Tero]

It's all the cat meoowing the women have to do during sex. They think it's silly and avoid the whole thing.

[JimC]

It's all the cat meoowing the women have to do during sex. They think it's silly and avoid the whole thing.

Pussy Riot!

[klr]

BBC2, tonight at 21:00 BST "No Sex Please, We're Japanese":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fh0bg

The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex

Unless something happens to boost Japan's birth rate, its population will shrink by a third between now and 2060. One reason for the lack of babies is the emergence of a new breed of Japanese men, the otaku, who love manga, anime and computers - and sometimes show little interest in sex.

Tokyo is the world's largest metropolis and home to more than 35 million people, so on the face of it, it is hard to believe there is any kind of population problem at all.

But Akihabara, an area of the city dedicated to the manga and anime subculture provides one clue to the country's problems.

Akihabara is heaven for otaku.

They are a generation of geeks who have grown up through 20 years of economic stagnation and have chosen to tune out and immerse themselves in their own fantasy worlds.

Kunio Kitamara, of the Japan Family Planning Association, describes many young Japanese men as "herbivores" - passive and lacking carnal desire.

It seems they no longer have the ambition of the post-war alpha males who made Japan such an economic powerhouse and no interest in joining a company and becoming a salary man.

They have taken on a mole-like existence and, worryingly, withdrawn from relationships with the opposite sex.

A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2010 found 36% of Japanese males aged 16 to 19 had no interest in sex - a figure that had doubled in the space of two years.

I met two otaku, who believe themselves to be in relationships with virtual girlfriends.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830

[Cunt]