Probably everyone has read or heard about the specific Japanese situation where a generation has grown up with a significant part of it completely sexless. People don’t form couples and don’t even cultivate short-term relationships anymore. They don’t have sexual experience and they don’t want it. And where there is no sex, there are no children.
And where there is no sex, there are no children.
There are growing indications that this is not just a Japanese thing. It’s more like the Japanese were just a few years ahead of everyone else. The same trend is spreading across civilizations. It’s not just a matter of the rising generation, but it’s showing up in other age groups as well. Within 10 years, the number of those who are completely sexless has increased by half. That’s an incredibly rapid change in lifestyle, considering that no war has broken out or other major breakthroughs have taken place during that time.
A recently published study shows another part of the picture. There is a rapid increase in the number of sexless people, but at the same time there is an increase in the number of those who engage in practices such as strangulation, which were recently considered to be quite extreme. Sex toys are also increasing rapidly. One would tend to put this in the context of the decline of the West or the crisis of masculinity there, but the same problem is everywhere. Spicy hot sex with lots of kinky affairs or nothing.
One would tend to put this in the context of the decline of the West or the crisis of masculinity there, but the same problem is everywhere.
According to my Czech readers, it’s that people have little morality, that they want to enjoy the nice sex itself, and that they don’t know that sex only has meaning as part of a committed marriage. So be it. But that doesn’t explain the huge change between 2008 and 2018. Nor can nurture be the explanation – sex lives have changed even for those who were already adults. The more likely explanation is the economic crisis, though all those other things may play a role.
