Japan workers told to go home and procreate

The Guardian ^ | November 28, 2008 | Justin McCurry

[St. Louis Conservative]

Japan's workers are being urged to switch off their laptops, go home early and use what little energy they have left on procreation, in the country's latest attempt to avert demographic disaster.

The drive to persuade employers that their staff would be better off at home with their wives than staying late at the office comes amid warnings from health experts that many couples are simply too tired to have sex.

A recent survey of married couples under 50 found that more than a third had not had sex in the previous month.

Many couples said they didn't have the energy for sex, while others said they found it boring.

A quarter of the men surveyed said they were "too tired" after work, while just under a fifth of women said intercourse was "too troublesome". A study by Durex found that the average couple has sex 45 times a year, less than half the global average of 103 times.

"It's a question of work-life balance," the association's head, Kunio Kitamura, told Reuters. "This is not something that the individual can tackle alone. The people who run companies need to do something about it."

Japan's birth rate, at 1.34 - the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime - is among the lowest in the world and falls well short of the 2.07 children needed to keep the population stable.

[al baby]

They could just automate that too

[FlingWingFlyer]

In America, we have office Christmas parties for that!

This was sarcasm and humor. Please don't take what I said seriously and flame my @$$. (I've got to stop forgetting to do the "sarc/off" thing).

[MAexile]

Many couples said they didn't have the energy for sex, while others said they found it boring.

??!?!!

[TheWasteLand]

"This is not something that the individual can tackle alone.

Indeed.

[bvw]

Good luck to them, but it takes more then giving people free time.

[max americana]

> A quarter of the men surveyed said they were “too tired” after work,
—but they have the “stamina” to head to their nearest geki-jo (nudie bar) after work.

[Askwhy5times]

I wish my boss would tell me that. The Intellectual Redneck

[F16Fighter]

A recent survey of married couples under 50 found that more than a third had not had sex in the previous month.

Many couples said they didn't have the energy for sex, while others said they found it boring.

This situation hard to believe with so many willing , able, and charming sex surrogates available:

[JRandomFreeper]

Now the Japanese are making tricycle motors?

/johnny

[stevem]

Many couples said they didn't have the energy for sex, while others said they found it boring.

Well, we have had ebbs an flows so to speak. It says right here I have never found it boring.

[AmericanInTokyo]

At the risk of making a pop-social generalization, but something is indeed a bit weird and definitely out of whack (sorry for the pun) when you witness in Japan a definite "11" on the 1-to-10 beauty scale, walking so confidently feminine down the street in the most top class of fashion, hair style/make up to a T, and nary a Japanese businessman gives a double take or a look over his shoulder, but just ignores such beauties left and right.

I know in Rome, Buenos Aires, NYC, Toronto, anywhere else, red blooded men would oggle and or nod/nudge/comment amongst themselves (if with other red blooded males) and some might even stop in their tracks and go in hot pursuit. In Japan, this does not even register on the interest meter. Men seem so oblivous to the immense natural beauty around them.

[RichInOC]

Perhaps the only time ever when the boss telling you to go get BLEEPed is a good thing.

[skinkinthegrass]

A study by Durex found that the average couple has sex 45 times a year, less than half the global average of 103 times.
...I'm speechless...

[csmusaret]

Too much soy in their diet?

[Dartman]

Seeing as how Japan has some of the most strict immigration laws in the world (it would be called racist anywhere else), maybe they should move towards the four-day-week. Give them a little more time to “play”.

[llevrok]

In Japan..... Men seem so oblivous to the immense natural beauty around them.

I have been to Japan many, many times. If I can stand in for my bored, male friends there, I am always willing to help out discover these beauties.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Haha...my thoughts exactly.

[Anita1]

I have found that SOY affects the thyroid negatively.

Now - I also found that SOY is negative for males eating soy

The reason for their low birthrate MIGHT be because:

“Researchers at Harvard have discovered that when men eat foods containing soy, their sperm concentration was lower than the men who did not eat the soy-based products. In fact the men who ate the most soy had 41 million less sperm per milliliter than the control group. This interesting finding proves that soy does affect hormones and may increase infertility in men.”

http://pregnancychildbirth.suite101.com/article.cfm/should_you_stay_away_from_soy

[SevenofNine]

Kinda upper Brit stuffy lip or something like that in Japan