Accord­ing to a recent study com­mis­sioned by the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment, the country’s desire for sex is drop­ping quickly.

The bien­nial sur­vey, orig­i­nally designed to gauge the suc­cess of the country’s birth-control edu­ca­tion, revealed that 36.1 per­cent of Japan­ese males between 16 and 19 had no inter­est in or even loathed sex. In 2008, that num­ber was 17.5 percent.

Of girls in that 16–19 age group, 59 per­cent had no inter­est in sex, up 12 points from 2008.

Forty per­cent of mar­ried peo­ple admit­ted to not hav­ing sex within the last month.

Over­all, the fer­til­ity rate in Japan has dropped to 1.37 births per woman. It’s 2.06 in the U.S. Such a low rate, if it con­tin­ues, could have major con­se­quences for the Japan­ese economy.

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asia, economics, relationships, sex-oriented | February 9th, 2011