No sex please - we're Japanese

Thu Jun 3, 6:30 AM ET

By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY

Junko Sakai was nervously looking forward to a romantic getaway with the man she'd been seeing. But when they arrived at a seaside hotel last fall, her beau requested separate rooms.

Stunned, Sakai nonetheless anticipated a late-night knock on the door. It never came. "Nothing happened," the Tokyo writer says.

Nothing is happening with depressing regularity between Japanese men and women these days. Marriages, births and hanky-panky are all spiraling downward with troubling implications for the nation's future: A sagging birthrate means that fewer working-age people will be around to support a growing population of elderly; a social crisis looms.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."


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And here I thought Turk5555 was the dumbest man alive. It looks like he has some competition.

What the article fails to address is the socio-cultural assumption (shared with the United States) that sexuality best takes place within married couples. That pervasive assumption, throughout the article, prevents intelligent analysis. This whole "Omigawd they don't want relationships!" attitude would probably be much more accurately rendered with "Omigawd they don't want to marry bitch-dyke-cunts or domineering-tyrant-career-men." I hear the gals are still good for a roll in the hay -- even better so, now that many of their men are actively avoiding that, at least according to the article.

And nowhere in this whole sexpose is there a mention of the fact that the "designer goodies" which the "parasite single" men might buy, could be sexual gratification without all the negatives of a relationship! A story about sexual mores in Japan, without a nod to the sex industry!

Japanese men are not having sex with their women because they are all in the friggin Rainbow Bars in NEP and the King Group Bars in Patpong.

Get these overpaying ,chain smoking, leering perverts out of MY bars !!!!