Rates of sexually inexperienced heterosexual people in Japan are the highest ever observed in a high-income country, an author of the study told Newsweek.
Approximately one in 10 heterosexual Japanese adults in their thirties are virgins, according to scientists investigating why a portion of the country’s population appears to been turned off by sex.
Researchers studied seven rounds of data from the National Fertility Survey of Japan carried out every half decade by the Japanese National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. The surveys were filled out between 1988 and 2015, and each involved between 11,553 and 17,859 18 to 39-year-old participants.
Some 4 percent of women aged between 35 to 39 had not had sex in 1992, rising to 8.9 percent in 2015. In the same period, the percentage rose from 5.5 percent of men to 9.5 percent.The study did not answer why people aren’t having sex. But Ueda explained the data suggested the reasons are socioeconomic.
“Among men aged 25-39 years, those in the lowest income category were ten to twenty times more likely to be virgins than those in the highest income category,” said Ueda. And those who were unemployed or worked part time were eight and four times more likely respectively to not have had sex than those with regular employment. Meanwhile, women with lower personal incomes were more likely to have sex.
However, Ueda cautioned the study was limited because the researchers relied on participants to tell the truth about their sexual experience. And as the National Fertility Survey does not collect data on the same-sex experiences, the scientists did not broaden their research outside of heterosexual encounters.
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