Research Why aren't the Japanese having sex? (Too many hikikomori?)

[C C]

Since Japan is always ahead of the curve, and the mundane version of the "demographic crisis" is already a global concern, this just more intensity lurking ahead for Western countries as Gen-Alpha grows up...
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Sexual Inactivity in Japan: A Scoping Review
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....25.2564192

ABSTRACT: The high rates of sexual inexperience and sexual inactivity reported from Japan have been subject to international attention. In this scoping review, we included 38 publications in English and Japanese (Jan 1st, 1974 to Sep 15th, 2024) comprising 43 surveys aimed at presenting population-based data on sexual inexperience, sexual inactivity and related variables, including indicators of sexual desire, interest in sexual relationships, sexual orientation and identities, sexual dysfunction and use of commercial sex worker services.

Findings indicated that sexual inexperience had increased during the past decades such that around half of the Japanese population remained sexually inexperienced into their mid-twenties and approximately 10% of the individuals had no sexual experience when reaching their 30s, although most of the data pertained to heterosexual inexperience.

The prevalence of sexual inactivity was high and had increased during the past decades, but these findings relied on less reliable data. While measures of sexual desire varied depending on definition and survey, a large proportion of the population reported that they had no interest in sexual relationships. Based on the reviewed data, several hypotheses regarding sexual inactivity in Japan and avenues for further research are suggested. (MORE - the research paper)

[Magical Realist]

I would attribute the sexual experience itself rather than inexperience as the primary cause for lack of sex. It's never quite what it's cracked up to be and rarely what you see in movies. I personally never accepted the premise that everyone SHOULD be reproduced.

[Syne]

Well, there's no accounting for how homosexual sex is depicted in movies.
As a man, I think the experience is what you make it... for yourself and for another. But I can see how that might not be as viable for women.

[Magical Realist]

Well, there's no accounting for how homosexual sex is depicted in movies.

How many LGBT movies have you seen? Let me guess..Zilch.

Sex and romantic love is culturally overrated and idealized, regardless who it is between.

[Syne]

Well, there's no accounting for how homosexual sex is depicted in movies.

How many LGBT movies have you seen? Let me guess..Zilch.

A few. But I can only take your word for how they depict it.

Sex and romantic love is culturally overrated and idealized, regardless who it is between.

Like many things in life, it's what you make of it. If you're not making it romantic, it definitely won't stack up to the movies.
Many people have very physically and romantically fulfilling sex.

[C C]

Sex and romantic love is culturally overrated and idealized, regardless who it is between.

Even mouth kissing would have been nightmarish before 20th-century hygiene. But if born back then, one would probably be too ignorant of anything else to have a comparison. Even the elite could get off on the foulness and odors, as evidenced by Napoleon imploring in a letter for Joséphine not to bathe before he returned from a campaign.

Affection (hugs and manually caressing or babying someone around) would be easily tolerable, though. But the higher classes of some cultures were more alienated in terms of that than erotic, passionate antics. As well as the haughty extreme of abhorring physical contact altogether (for good unknown reason, as the mansion dwellers were just as much unclean carriers of crawling parasites, microscopic threats, and living abodes for tapeworms and pinworms.).

[Magical Realist]

A few. But I can only take your word for how they depict it.

The topic is sex in general and how it is depicted in movies. Why you wanna make it about gay sex is telling..

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Sex and romantic love is culturally overrated and idealized, regardless who it is between.

Even mouth kissing would have been nightmarish before 20th-century hygiene. But if born back then, one would probably be too ignorant of anything else to have a comparison. Even the elite could get off on the foulness and odors, as evidenced by Napoleon imploring in a letter for Joséphine not to bathe before he returned from a campaign.

Affection (hugs and manually caressing or babying someone around) would be easily tolerable, though. But the higher classes of some cultures were more alienated in terms of that than erotic, passionate antics. As well as the haughty extreme of abhorring physical contact altogether (for good unknown reason, as the mansion dwellers were just as much unclean carriers of crawling parasites, microscopic threats, and living abodes for tapeworms and pinworms.).

I think oral sex has had the effect of ruining normal coitus for everybody. Everybody wants it but few want to do it. It's sort of like masturbation too, where you get the exact stimulation and powerful orgasm any time without all the rigamarole of another person. Alas, for the unimaginative that is not such a viable option. Hence the bloated and massive world of porn online.

[Syne]

A few. But I can only take your word for how they depict it.

The topic is sex in general and how it is depicted in movies. Why you wanna make it about gay sex is telling..

Again, your poor reading comprehension trips you up.
I don't know anything about real life gay sex. So it simply follows that I would have to take the word of a gay on how well/poorly it is depicted in movies.

[Magical Realist]

I was talking about how sex was portrayed in movies. You turned it into gay sex. Methinks you have some unmet need there that nobody here wants to hear about.

[Syne]

No, you just can't read worth a damn. I mentioned gay sex because you are gay and that's you're opinion of sex in movies.
And then I commented on my experience, which seems to radically differ from yours.