Philosphorous Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex "Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren't even dating, and increasing numbers can't be bothered with sex. For their government, "celibacy syndrome" is part of a looming national catastrophe. Japan already has one of the world's lowest birth rates. Its population of 126 million, which has been shrinking for the past decade, is projected to plunge a further one-third by 2060. Aoyama believes the country is experiencing "a flight from human intimacy" – and it's partly the government's fault." Government: passively and actively killing productive people for 12,000+ years!
Snafui Posted May 1, 2014 Posted May 1, 2014 Where is the balance? The sex life of an individual needs balance between casual and intimate sex, or people wind up unsatisfied. Using role-play, pornography, multiple partners, will cover casual aspects; but intimacy is really handled one way--marriage. The error is to assume that the intimacy is created by a marital relationship rather than continously earned. What are you doing to increase your partner's desire to remain monogamous or are you using sex as a weapon? If the latter, you kill the intimacy you both need. It is the use of force applied to a monogamous relationship. Also, why marry if you lose individuality to a collective goal? Are the needs of both parties met in marraige? The individual may need others to achieve their goals but when the individual is more often sacrificed to a collective over what they gain, they quit. The balance between individual goals and voluntary collective action is lost to collective goals by force. These people are going Galt--their sex lives is one way to do so. Women are in far more control of the direction of a culture than most would like to admit. Another observation is the fantasy of the young virginal schoolgirl, who is sometimes willing, but also has the skills of a 30 year old divorcee after a several years dry spell is not something you should be looking for in real life. It seems they took this to an extreme and this article might be showing the backlash.
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