No sex please we're ....

[Gob]

Japanese....

TOKYO
Japan is well known for many things, and its obsession with sex is one of them.

It has one of the most robust pornographic and adult-toy industries in the world and airs TV commercials for items as banal as candy that feature sexually suggestive themes. It even has an annual fertility festival that parades two five-foot-tall penis sculptures down a busy street on a Sunday afternoon.

And yet nearly half of singles in Japan have no interest in dating – a situation that many experts predict will help lead to a population decline of one-third in the next 45 years.

According to a survey of never-married people by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, 27.6 percent of single men and 22.6 percent of single women have no interest in engaging in a relationship with the opposite sex. Researchers cite those statistics to argue that a significant portion of Japanese simply has no interest in sex. They might even have an aversion to it.

Says Auumu Ochiai, a researcher based in Tokyo: “41.6 percent of males in their 20s have never dated anyone.”

The number of men with no sexual experience drops with age, but it’s still large at 34: 26.1 percent. For women age 34, it’s somewhat less, but not by much – 23.8 percent.

That’s not to say that all of them wish to remain single. Ochiai says his research indicates that nearly 90 percent of single people would like eventually to marry. The Japanese government gives similar estimates.

Still, it’s easy enough to find Japanese who have little interest in developing a relationship. Yuki Kobari, who’s in his 30s, says he used to date several years ago, but that becoming involved with someone now would be a burden. Now his spare time is pretty much his own.

“I can devote myself to my hobbies and do what I want,” he explained.

He acknowledges that might not always be his preference, though he feels he has time yet before he must worry about making a commitment. His estimate: four or five years. Then, he says, “it’s going to be the time when you have to make a decision.”

10.1 percentage of males who told government surveyors sex was too much work.
Helping to drive the lack of interest in marriage is a change in Japan’s conservative social mores. Thirty-one percent of single Japanese admit that relief from family pressure is one motivation for picking a partner.

But that pressure is decidedly less now than it used to be. Plus, it’s easier to be single now.

“The world is pretty established as single-person-based, so there is not much inconvenience,” said another 30-something Japanese. “I cannot really imagine having people in my life.”

That, he says hesitantly, includes potential sex partners. “To be honest, basically, how can I say? Well, I do not want people in my life, so sex is included here.” Perhaps not surprisingly, he asked that his name not be published.

Large Japanese cities offer every imaginable convenience tailored specifically to singles’ needs – including physical. Even life-like sex dolls are easily found for those who want the human touch without touching a human. For many Japanese singles, apparently, there’s no need for a live partner.

Japan’s long economic malaise might be another factor that weighs against establishing a long-term relationship – especially for women. One 30-something woman, who asked not to be identified because of the personal nature of the topic, said she last had a boyfriend eight years ago and that she currently feels no need for a physical relationship. As for a commitment of other sorts, the economy is the turnoff. “The main reason is after all a financial problem,” she said.

The lack of interest in sex is not limited to singles. According to a survey by the Japan Family Planning Association conducted last year, 44.6 percent of married couples say they are in a sexless marriage. Some of the main reasons include work fatigue and childbirth.

What is surprising, though, is that 10.1 percent of male and 23.8 percent of female respondents say they find sex to be too much work, another 10.1 percent of males and 5.4 percent of females have come to think of their spouse as a blood relative, and 4.5 percent of males and 5.9 percent of females say that they have other activities they find more interesting than sex. A further 16.9 percent of males and 13.0 percent of females listed “other” as their answer.

That augurs poorly for Japan’s birthrate, computed as the number of children the average Japanese woman is expected to have in her lifetime. At 1.4, it’s one of the lowest in the world. In 1985, it was 1.8, the same as the United States’ rate then; now the U.S. rate has inched up to 1.9.

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[TPFKA@W]

I find this pretty sad.

[Guinevere]

I agree its very sad.

But on the other hand, fewer members of a culture that hunts dolphins and whales may not be a bad thing:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/19/asia/ ... index.html

The animal-rights activist and star of the "The Cove," which highlighted Japan's controversial annual dolphin slaughter in the town of Taiji, has been detained at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, his lawyer says.

Takashi Takano told CNN that Ric O'Barry has been detained in a deportees' facility at the airport on Monday and that he had met with the activist in the company of immigration officials. Takano was told by officials that O'Barry had tried to enter Japan on a tourist visa but his tourist status was not fully proven. Officials refused to refused to provide him with further information.

His son, Lincoln O'Barry, told CNN that his father had entered Japan to monitor the hunt, to test the dolphin meat for mercury poisoning and to work with local activists.

Go ahead and yell at me, I expect it . . .


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[TPFKA@W]

I am on the side of whales and dolphins thus no reason to yell at you.

[Lord Jim]

Even a nature-hating Republican like myself isn't going to defend slaughtering whales and dolphins...

These highly intelligent gentle creatures deserve better...

[wesw]

I agree, mostly.

whales and dolphins are much like us, and like wolves.

they can be gentle and they can be fierce.

they can be kind and they can be belligerent.

some more than others.

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Lord Jim]

whales and dolphins are much like us

I don't know wes...

I doubt that there are many dolphin serial or spree killers, or dolphin gang-bangers, or dolphins that kill their own mothers for being "apostates"...

[Long Run]

Sure, but like humans, when they aren't spouting off about something, their flipping you off for some minor offense.

[rubato]

I agree its very sad.

But on the other hand, fewer members of a culture that hunts dolphins and whales may not be a bad thing:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/19/asia/ ... index.html

The animal-rights activist and star of the "The Cove," which highlighted Japan's controversial annual dolphin slaughter in the town of Taiji, has been detained at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, his lawyer says.

Takashi Takano told CNN that Ric O'Barry has been detained in a deportees' facility at the airport on Monday and that he had met with the activist in the company of immigration officials. Takano was told by officials that O'Barry had tried to enter Japan on a tourist visa but his tourist status was not fully proven. Officials refused to refused to provide him with further information.

His son, Lincoln O'Barry, told CNN that his father had entered Japan to monitor the hunt, to test the dolphin meat for mercury poisoning and to work with local activists.

Go ahead and yell at me, I expect it . . .


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Whale meat is very good. I had Minke whale for lunch in Reykjavik. I'd do so again too. As long as they are not endangered it is just another mammalian food source like beef.


Dolphins are violent and aggressive even against their own species. Like humans, and as Jane Goodall discovered to her horror and enlightenment, chimpanzees:

The Dark Secrets That Dolphins Don't Want You to Know
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By Miriam Goldstein
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It never fails. Every single cocktail party, as soon as someone finds out that I'm a graduate student studying marine biology, they ask, "So, do you get to play with dolphins?" Since my heart is as black and cold as the oceanic abyss, I usually take this opportunity to disillusion yet another poor soul of their childhood fantasy of Mystical Dolphin Love .

Dolphins are not gentle or psychic. If they could talk they would not impart eco-wisdom or deep spiritual truth. Dolphins are violent predators with a predilection for baby killing and rape. I feel it's my duty to warn you, despite the risk of insulting creatures made of hundreds of pounds of muscle and rows of sharp teeth. Throw out your rainbow dolphin painting , and check out dolphins' low-down dirty secrets:

--Dolphin sex can be violent and coercive. Gangs of two or three male bottlenose dolphins isolate a single female from the pod and forcibly mate with her, sometimes for weeks at a time. To keep her in line, they make aggressive noises, threatening movements, and even smack her around with their tails. And if she tries to swim away, they chase her down. Horny dolphins have also been known to target human swimmers -Demi Moore is rumored to have had a close encounter of the finny kind.

--Dolphins kill harbor porpoise babies. In Scotland, scientists found baby harbor porpoises washed up with horrific internal injuries. They thought the porpoises might have been killed by weapons tests until they found the toothmarks. Later, dolphins were caught on film pulping the baby porpoises-the dolphins even used their ecolocation to aim their blow at the porpoises' vital organs.

--Dolphins kill their own babies. Baby dolphins have washed up alongside the dead porpoises, and some scientists think that all the porpoise-slaughter was just practice for some old-fashioned infanticide . For other mammals like lions, killing the babies makes the females immediately ready for the next pregnancy, and maybe that's the case with dolphins, too.

The scariest part is dolphins can wreak havoc day and night without sleeping. A recent study found that dolphins could stay awake for five days straight with no loss of mental acuity. The dolphins didn't even need to make up sleep at the end of the study, though the scientists sure did.

If the dolphins ever evolve thumbs , we're in trouble. It will be like a slasher-film remake of Douglas Adams' So Long And Thanks for All The Fish . If I wash up with pulped innards and dolphin tooth marks, you'll know why. After all, you never hear about the people the dolphins push out to sea.
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rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

They do it on porpoise then?

[Long Run]

They've been rocking the running shorts for 40 years; how mean can they be?

[Lord Jim]

Dolphins are violent and aggressive

They finished 6-10...

They could have done with being a bit more violent and aggressive...

[rubato]

Japan having a population decline is a good thing.


yrs,
rubato

[oldr_n_wsr]

It has one of the most robust pornographic and adult-toy industries

They are just having a great sexual relationship with someone they love very much....









themselves.

[wesw]

actually dolphins do gang bang and force sex sometimes. they also bully and kill other dolphins on occasion ..

I ll find sources if you want, or you can just take my word for it

eta- oh I missed rubes post the first time I read it....

[dales]

Japan having a population decline is a good thing.


yrs,
rubato

[TPFKA@W]

I work with a woman who used to train dolphins at our local zoo. She said their personalities and levels of intelligence vary as greatly as human's do.

They do engage in recreational sex and can be a bit aggressive.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Human's do

[TPFKA@W]

Human's do

Gotta throw you bone's now and then.