More than 40% of Japan's population is loveshy, survey suggests - Japan is also the home of Anime. Coincidence?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...t-of-japans-adult-singles-are-virgins-says-s/
https://archive.is/sbuQk

More than forty per cent of young singletons in Japan are virgins, according to a new study that highlights concerns about the country's demographic challenges. Japan already suffers from the world's oldest population and a shrinking birthrate, with the government struggling to incentivise marriage and parenthood.
Now a survey of unmarried people aged 18 to 34 found that around 42 per cent of men and 44.2 per cent of single women had never had sex.
The study is carried out by Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security every five years.



The country's government has worked hard to booth the birthrate in recent years, providing incentives such as support for child care and tax breaks.
The new data however indicates, that, if anything Japanese men and women are growing apart.
The last time the study was conducted in 2010, only 36.2 per cent of men and 38.7 percent of women said they were virgins.
Nearly 90 per cent of the respondents said they want to get married “sometime in the future.”
But 30 per cent of the 2,706 men sampled and 26 per cent of the 2,570 female respondents said they were not currently looking for a relationship.

“They want to tie the knot eventually. But they tend to put it off as they have gaps between their ideals and the reality,” Futoshi Ishii, head researcher for the study, told Japan Times. “That’s why people marry later or stay single for life, contributing to the nation’s low birthrate.”
An organisation called Virgin Academia, set up by the non-profit organisation White Hands, now offers lectures focusing on how to establish healthy relationships, as well as activities such as nude life drawing classes.
The lack of sexual activity can seem at odds with a society saturated with sexual images, from television and manga comics to city billboards.
But recent years have seen a shift in traditional family structures, and a protracted economic slowdown as a global powerhouse, which has reportedly resulted in many men struggling to hold down secure, full-time jobs.

ahahaha what a bunch of fucking lolcows lmao

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

Culturally, Japan has become very social awkward compared to how it used to be.

so then they are loveshies

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

Anyone else find it funny that a country that was a shut-in for most of its history now has a problem with shut-ins?

 

[Trombonista]

How...?

Depends on whether the virgin hates women.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

It doesn't help that the country is still pretty gender-segregated for a first-world country and many of the young men and women end up getting fucked up views of the opposite gender (and sometimes the same gender) as a result.

 

[DatBepisTho]

MOST DISHONORBUUUUU.

These people are hard workers, literally working themselves to death, which leaves little time for romantic encounters or socialization.
They remain income slaves to their families until a very unhealthy age, so that decreases their sex appeal to potential mates. Culturally, Japan has become very social awkward compared to how it used to be.

MOST DISHONORBUUUUU.

And the studying. Don't forget they expect them to be A++ Rocket scientists.

It's hella hard to get a date (and keep them) when you can't take off to see them and/or have your own place to bring them home to without your family interrupting or voicing disapproval if they are present.
-I feel for them but at the same time I really don't because you can't expect the other party to do all the emotional work for you like the average loveshy does. You have to offer some sort of compensation at least and 99.9% the time their looks or personality don't make up for it.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

so then they are loveshies

Loveshies by Nurture not by Nature, at least not the autistic ones.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Given the absurdity and depravity of anything sexual coming from Japan, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that working too hard isn't covering all the bases for their sexual dysfunction.

Hearing, "Get away from me with that speculum you fucking faggot," probably discourages them something awful.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

Anime's inventor was right all this time...

 

[Michel]

Is now the time to strike?
I'm gonna get me a greencard waifu just you watch.

 

[melty]

I think japanese guys are hot. I don't see what the problem is.

 

[DuskEngine]

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/virginity-society.22575/

Japan is literally more virginal than this website

 

[lolwut]

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/virginity-society.22575/

Japan is literally more virginal than this website

I rated this optimistic because Kiwis are liars.

 

[Joan Nyan]

This is sort of like the tragedy of the commons, in that everyone acting in their own self interest hurts society as a whole. On an individual basis, being a virgin with a waifu is better than getting married, but if everyone does so, everyone gets hurt.

 

[polonium]

everyone acting in their own self interest hurts society as a whole.

That is not what the tragedy of the commons is about. It's a warning about the perils of socialism when nobody owns a shared resource and therefore nobody maintains it.

Secondly, we should nuke 'em a couple more times and see if they snap out of it.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

But how can Japan's population be declining when the West keeps sending over it's finest gaijins to help?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It doesn't help that the country is still pretty gender-segregated for a first-world country and many of the young men and women end up getting fucked up views of the opposite gender (and sometimes the same gender) as a result.

You know the moronic stereotype of a japanese nerd that gets a nosebleed when he sees a girl in underwear?
I shit you not, I knew a japanese guy that would get a nosebleed from looking at mannequins in bikinis.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

You know the moronic stereotype of a japanese nerd that gets a nosebleed when he sees a girl in underwear?
I shit you not, I knew a japanese guy that would get a nosebleed from looking at mannequins in bikinis.

I should be laughing but goddamn, that's depressing.

 

[millais]

You know the moronic stereotype of a japanese nerd that gets a nosebleed when he sees a girl in underwear?
I shit you not, I knew a japanese guy that would get a nosebleed from looking at mannequins in bikinis.

I didn't even know that was physiologically possible.

 

[Cubanodun]

This is what happen when you censor porn

 

[Saney]

You know the moronic stereotype of a japanese nerd that gets a nosebleed when he sees a girl in underwear?
I shit you not, I knew a japanese guy that would get a nosebleed from looking at mannequins in bikinis.

Welp, now they're evolving into anime stereotypes.