CNN Indonesia
Monday, 19 Feb 2024 08:33 IWST
Illustration. Japan is experiencing a sexual recession due to declining marriage and birth rates. Photo: REUTERS/ISSEI KATO
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Survey in Japan shows that around 60 percent of husband and wife in this country do not have sexual relations. This phenomenon describessexual recession‘ in Japan is increasingly real.
A poll from the web design and internet advertising agency Raison d’Etre showed that 43.9 percent of married respondents rarely had sexual relations.
As many as 24.3 percent of married couples almost never have sexual relations.
“Thus, a total of 68.2 respondents had little or no sexual relations at all,” the agency’s survey was quoted as saying Nipponlate last January.
The survey was conducted on 4,000 married people. Their ages are around 20s to 40s, with 500 respondents in each age group.
Based on age and gender, 51 percent of women who married in their 20s were not interested in having sex or almost did not want to have sex.
Then, 67.8 percent of women who married in their 30s experienced a similar phenomenon.
The survey also showed that 39.2 percent of married women in their 30s had not had sexual intercourse at all.
Among married men in their 20s, 53.4 percent rarely have sexual intercourse, and in their 30s 71.4 percent are disabled.
The survey also found that 41.8 percent of men in their 30s were married and had not had sexual relations.
Meanwhile, research conducted by the Japan Family Planning Association (JPFA) revealed the reasons why married couples in this country rarely have sexual relations.
JPFA conducted a similar survey in 2004. As a result, 22.3 percent of women in Japan do not have sexual relations because they consider it “disturbing.”
They also found that more than 20 percent of women did not want to have sexual relations after giving birth.
Apart from that, the survey revealed that 17.4 percent of respondents admitted that they were too tired from work, 8.2 percent no longer considered their husbands as sexual partners but as family.
Recently, Japan has been experiencing a ‘sexual recession’ due to declining marriage and birth rates.
In 2022, Japan recorded a birth rate of less than 800,000. This number is the lowest since birth registration began.
The Japanese government even disbursed US$ 25 billion or Rp. 370 trillion to overcome the decline in birth rates.
The money will be in the form of subsidies covering education costs, prenatal care and paternity leave. Japan on the other hand has the second largest elderly population in the world.
(father/dna)
2024-02-19 01:33:42
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