June 23, 2006
Japan: Sex, It's Just What the Doctor Ordered.
(REUTERS)
"Japanese people simply aren't having sex," Dr. Kunio Kitamura, a gynecologist and the director of the Japan Family Planning Association, told The Japan Times, adding that more sex is needed to reverse Japan's plummeting birthrate. He spoke after an association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed that 31 percent had not had sex for more than a month "for no particular reason." Last year, Japan's fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to an all-time low of 1.25. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining.
Japan: Sex, It's Just What the Doctor Ordered.
(REUTERS)
"Japanese people simply aren't having sex," Dr. Kunio Kitamura, a gynecologist and the director of the Japan Family Planning Association, told The Japan Times, adding that more sex is needed to reverse Japan's plummeting birthrate. He spoke after an association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed that 31 percent had not had sex for more than a month "for no particular reason." Last year, Japan's fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to an all-time low of 1.25. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining.
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