<story><title>Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>westicle</author><text>This certainly isn&amp;#x27;t a phenomenon exclusive to Japan either.&lt;p&gt;I know plenty of western young people who have no interest in marriage, procreation or families. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in their work. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in rock-climbing. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in Pokemon.&lt;p&gt;More power to them, I say.</text></item><item><author>veidr</author><text>This is a stupid article, and young people in Japan have not stopped having sex.&lt;p&gt;What westerners might call &amp;#x27;casual sex&amp;#x27; -- sex without the framework of a relationships that implies various other promieses&amp;#x2F;committments -- is normal, and also not likely to be spoken about frankly, especially to a reporter, and much less a British one.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I&amp;#x27;ll witness a young woman asked about it at a social gathering (as people have a few drinks and speak more freely). &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have anybody... I can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I slept with somebody,&amp;quot; she might say. What she means is that she doesn&amp;#x27;t have a steady boyfriend, and thus it is certainly none of your business who she&amp;#x27;s fucking.&lt;p&gt;Or I will see a guy asked about it. &amp;quot;Well, romance is too complicated with all I&amp;#x27;ve got going on... I&amp;#x27;ve learned to live without it,&amp;quot; he might say, with just the right amount of sheepishness. What he means is that he is seeking only sex that doesn&amp;#x27;t come with implied commitments and hassle.&lt;p&gt;These two people might very well end up leaving together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>001sky</author><text>Anecdotally, this is directly correlated to the price of real-estate, and other parts of the world are only now catching up to Japan in this regards.</text></comment>
<story><title>Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>westicle</author><text>This certainly isn&amp;#x27;t a phenomenon exclusive to Japan either.&lt;p&gt;I know plenty of western young people who have no interest in marriage, procreation or families. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in their work. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in rock-climbing. Maybe they&amp;#x27;re more interested in Pokemon.&lt;p&gt;More power to them, I say.</text></item><item><author>veidr</author><text>This is a stupid article, and young people in Japan have not stopped having sex.&lt;p&gt;What westerners might call &amp;#x27;casual sex&amp;#x27; -- sex without the framework of a relationships that implies various other promieses&amp;#x2F;committments -- is normal, and also not likely to be spoken about frankly, especially to a reporter, and much less a British one.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I&amp;#x27;ll witness a young woman asked about it at a social gathering (as people have a few drinks and speak more freely). &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have anybody... I can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I slept with somebody,&amp;quot; she might say. What she means is that she doesn&amp;#x27;t have a steady boyfriend, and thus it is certainly none of your business who she&amp;#x27;s fucking.&lt;p&gt;Or I will see a guy asked about it. &amp;quot;Well, romance is too complicated with all I&amp;#x27;ve got going on... I&amp;#x27;ve learned to live without it,&amp;quot; he might say, with just the right amount of sheepishness. What he means is that he is seeking only sex that doesn&amp;#x27;t come with implied commitments and hassle.&lt;p&gt;These two people might very well end up leaving together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrs99</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s a bigger more existential problem that young people these days have.</text></comment>