Monday, January 25, 2016

Japan has porn, but not real sex

McClatchy reports:
In a Japan seemingly obsessed with sex, few seem to indulge

Birthrate has dropped as surveys show Japanese singles have little interest in relationships

Even married couples say their relationships are sexless

26 percent of men have no sexual experience by age 34

Japan is well known for many things, and its obsession with sex is one of them. It has one of the most robust pornographic and adult-toy industries in the world and airs TV commercials for items as banal as candy that feature sexually suggestive themes. It even has an annual fertility festival that parades two five-foot-tall penis sculptures down a busy street on a Sunday afternoon.

And yet nearly half of singles in Japan have no interest in dating – a situation that many experts predict will help lead to a population decline of one-third in the next 45 years.
Japan is over-populated, so the decline is an improvement. It is also retaining its culture, even if the rest of the world does things differently.

Pretty we will high-quality consumer virtual reality goggles, and probably some ultra-realistic pornography soon thereafter. The Japanese will probably also have robots for sexual relations. These advances may diminish demand for the real thing.

It does appear to me that the Japanese idea of marriage is a lousy deal for both men and women. They are probably obsessed with sex because they have not figured out how to combine it with their marriage customs. Maybe they will figure it out in a century or so, when the country will have been de-populated.

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