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1 in 3 Japanese married couples are sexless
April 26, 2005
Almost one-third of Japan's married couples are sexless, with about 20 percent
of unions bereft of physical intimacy for one year or more, an alarming poll
conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Japan Family
Planning Association showed.
Some 28 percent of married men and 34 percent of married women said they had
not had sex with their spouse for at least one month, the period determined to
be the defining point of sexlessness.
At 44 percent, nearly half the sexless respondents said they felt dealing with
the opposite sex was a bother, well above the 31 percent of sexually active
people who believed the same.
Sexless people were also less likely to discuss birth control with partners,
which came up in discussions among 31 percent of the sexless in comparison with
the 46 percent of sexually active people who talked about contraception.
"It seems those who do not actively pursue communication with the opposite sex,
including discussion about contraception, have a greater inclination to become
sexless," Kunio Kitamura, managing director of the Japan Family Planning
Association, said.
The association and the ministry carried out the survey among 3,000 men and
women aged from 16 to 49 and living at various parts of the country. The valid
response rate to the survey was 52.7 percent.
Mainichi Shimbun
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