Japan has a serious sex problem on its hands.
A survey by the Japan Family Planning Association shows that close to half the country's population aren't having sex. The Japanese have even coined the phenomenon, sekkusu shinai shokogun, or in English, "celibacy syndrome."
I have to say, it makes me feel slightly better about myself that it's a syndrome.
According to the survey, 49.3 percent of people between 16 and 49 said they hadn't gotten it on in the last month. Christ in Heaven.
But weirdly, the Japanese don't seem to give much of a shite.
A 2011 study reported on in the Washington Post said that roughly half of Japan's 130 million or so citizens are single, but almost a quarter of them haven't even a notion of embarking on a romantic relationship.
Somewhat incredibly, more than 37 % of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 have never actually had sex.
Is Takeshi's Castle really that good?
Though akin to my own, Japan's rather disturbing lack of sex could have profoundly negative effects on the world economy - a claim similar to the one which saw my being forcibly removed from the dancefloor of Havana Browns last Saturday night.
According to Nippon, Japan's lack of sex could result in 20 million less people in the country by 2040. Japan, the third largest economy in the world behind the U.S. and China, is already in economic trouble with a massive national debt, and this whole sex thing is only making things worse. Really.
The Washington Post reports,
The Japanese economy is in serious enough trouble that it could set the rest of us back. And the biggest source of that trouble is demographic: Japanese people aren't having enough kids to sustain a healthy economy.
Reports of a widespread Tamagotchi comeback are thus far unconfirmed.
H/T: Complex
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