TOKYO - The secret behind Japan's plunging birth rate? A record 39.7 percent of Japanese citizens ages 16-49 have not had sex for over a month — up 5 percentage points from two years ago — according to a survey published this week by the Japan Family Planning Association.

Among married couples, the rate was only slightly lower, at 34.6 percent.

"This is very bad news for the country's birth rate, and something the government needs to look into urgently," said Dr. Kunio Kitamura, the family planning association's director.

The survey comes amid concerns over Japan's faltering birthrate, which fell in 2005 to a record low of 1.26 births in an average woman's lifetime. The decline has stoked fears of impeding tax revenue shortfalls and labor shortages.

"The situation is dismal," Kitamura said. "My research shows that if you don't have sex for a month, you probably won't for a year."

Kitamura partly blamed stress from busy working lives.

A decline in physical communication skills in an increasingly Web-based society was also a factor, he said.

The association said it handed out survey forms to 2,713 randomly selected people, and received responses from 636 men and 773 women in November 2006. It gave no margin of error. In a similar poll taken two years ago, 35 percent reported having no sex for a month.

Japan came last in a 29-country study of sexual satisfaction published by the University of Chicago last year, with a mere 25.7 percent of lovers expressing satisfaction in bed.

The country was also in last place among 41 nations in a 2005 poll by condom manufacturer Durex, with people having sex just 45 times a year compared to a global average of 103.

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_.../japan_no_sex_4

thats sucks big time

I guess bukake, rope binding your mate and all those tentacle hentai dont cut it anymore...the japanese need something new

I guess its tough to meet girls when you're working so much. Just want to go home and relax.

robot anal secks?

japan is going to import white people to fcuk its women

STFU with your trolling comments

At this rate, the Japanese are going to die out then and be taken over by some other people?

Japan is going to sink anyway

i thought i banned you? WTF

maybe it's karma for killing beautiful whales

that sucks. i wonder why Japan got so many perverted porno flicks. now i understand. after all there are so many lonely souls on the islands of the rising sun.

Godzilla and Megaman DP!

I also love how my post was deleted.

white men have more success in penetrating Japanese women than Japanese men

go and die...

I thought the Japanese had sex like rabbits? They have a huge porn industry and don't forget about hentai. Plus they're asian, so they're into the natural way to cure things, sex is great medicine. I'm shocked. Is this really true?

They do work around the clock like someone already mentioned, but I read somewhere that after work, they go out drinking and come home really late at night. If that's true, maybe they should instead go home, have a nice dinner with the wife/husband and then make nookie.

lol it's an urgent matter that people havn't had s3x for over a month








your a dumbass

no thats Chinese ppl. I thought that they were the most sexual ones too.

yea each time person blinks chinese have 44 babies

No no, we USED to be. It's the Indians now.

Aren't most Japanese just know for being perverted? Hey, I don't make stereotypes, I just see em.

^^ yes esp. in j-porn