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Aug 30 2006 8 Comments

Fornication fasting

Japan’s unenviable position at the bottom of the ‘most at it like rabbits’ league table looks set to continue, with the seemingly less than passionate population quite possibly set to reduce the tryst tally even further this year.

japan sex survey

At least this would certainly be the case were the poll restricted to married couples, as a recent survey by Bayer — which has been tirelessly translated by the far from wilting What Japan Thinks — found that the average number of sexual sojourns for a Japanese pair was a measly 17 a year, further strengthening the notion of the sexless marriage. A number so pitiful in fact that it makes the nation’s average figure of 45 forays seem almost feverish in its frequency.

Whilst a little over 10 percent of those questioned managed to make the effort at least once a week, the rest of the results make for less than encouraging reading. A sizeable 16 percent of those asked only indulge in a bit of intercourse once a month; however even this figure isn’t that bad when compared to those who haven’t had a bit of how’s your father for over a year — a whopping 34 percent.

Notably a thrifty 3 percent managed to just about keep up appearances by getting one ‘go’ in a year. Something of a holiday treat perhaps.

Categorized: Sex

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  1. JOhan says

    8/30/2006 at 5:01 pm

    they only interviewed 100 persons in every agegroup, shouldnt it been more?

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  2. Chris says

    8/30/2006 at 6:53 pm

    Perhaps the problem was the wording of the question, next time they might want to leave out the “with your spouse” part…

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  3. jim says

    8/31/2006 at 12:11 am

    Yes they would need to interview more people.

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  4. Danny Howard says

    8/31/2006 at 3:17 am

    Might this be a demographic thing? I’d imagine that with the young people not marrying, and the old people who are married living long lives, that the married population in Japan has a lot of grey hair, and they’re just not as frisky as they used to be, which apparently wasn’t all that frisky in the first place …

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  5. Bunny says

    9/4/2006 at 8:50 pm

    PHEWY!!! I thought the Chinese were starting to slow up. That’s a relief.

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  6. Andrew says

    10/15/2006 at 10:50 am

    The world champions of “hide the sausage” seem to be doing something right because there’s plenty of them.

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