Much ado has been made about America’s worsening sex drought. But America’s dry spell is nowhere near as severe as Japan’s. There, the sexual landscape has been parched for some time. In a paper published earlier this month to the Journal of Sex Research, a team of scientists extensively surveyed the country’s burgeoning sex desert and attempted to explain it.
In Japan, the culture of sex is fascinating. “Sexual behaviors are often described as a puzzling and contradictory mix of permissiveness and expectations of discretion,” the researchers wrote. The upper levels of Tokyo’s signature multi-level department stores are often stocked with all sorts of “naughty” paraphernalia – video games, toys, dolls, art, and tools that would make anyone blush. Sex work is also legal in pretty much all forms apart from penetrative intercourse. Premarital sex is generally accepted. At the same time, hormonal contraception is rarely used and young people often forgo romantic pursuits until they attain socioeconomic success.
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