Glob-a-log

Okay, so I’m not trying to be judgemental here but could it be that the men in Japan are a bit too busy playing with robots and trying to invent ever smaller cell phones and ever more complicated DVD-recorders?

I mean, it does seem that they are neglecting some other, fairly elementary and rather important duties…

Housewife Miyuki Yanagisawa cannot recall the last time she had sex with her husband. She is certain, though, that their physical estrangement can be measured in years, not months. Yanagisawa is not alone. According to a new report by the World Health Organisation, a quarter of married couples in Japan have not had sex in the past year. The problem worsens with age. While the study found that the 42 per cent of couples in their twenties who had lived together for fewer than five years had sex at least once a week, almost 38 per cent of married couples in their fifties have none.

The Japan Society of Sexual Science deems a marriage ’sexless’ when a couple go for a month or more without having sex and does not expect the situation to improve. People trapped in sexless marriages blame long working hours, a claim backed up by global surveys of sexual activity conducted by Durex. According to the condom maker, Japanese couples have sex 45 times a year, well below the global average of 103 times.

According to one study a fifth of Japanese husbands say they are bored with intercourse, while about 15 per cent say they are simply too tired. A similar proportion of women agree that the spark has gone out of their love lives, although fewer than one in 10 blames their lover’s poor performance in bed.

Well, since those lovers don’t even bother to show up for a performance, I’d say it’s not that simple to assess their potential - so to speak.

Again, maybe it’s time for all Japanese men to stop developing ever more sophisticated electronic and digital toys, put away those stupid Manga porn magazines and try to spend more happy time with their wives. So that these wives can greet their hubbies at the door with a demure, “Is that the new Nokia in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

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