How about you corelate this with cost of living, financial independece, and decreasing socialisation? We are seeing similar trends in european countries.
When my generation was growing up, and reaching adulthood, in the late 90s early 2000s while our own teens didn't have places where to get intimate, outdoor sex was way more common than it is today!
Who in their right mind would do so today when you can't even pick your nose without being caught by some random outside camera or mobile phone.
Maybe think radically and enforce the opposit of curfews whereas old parents living with their young adults are forced to hang outside at bars/clubs from 10pm to 9am to give their youth some breathing room :))
First that you can't attest who filmed something without a lot of effort that law enforcement for sure won't bother with.
In many countries caught doing such activities in public spaces falls under public indecent exposure, if not something more draconian that puts you on a sex offender list. Morally people will feel obliged to report it there.
For example if you post it to Instagram or YouTube they'd know it was you, and you could go to jail.
All these trends are happening everywhere to varying degrees with less developed places like much of Africa simply earlier on the curve but following the same trajectory.
So where does it end? I’m skeptical of population doomerism but shrinking population, like too rapid population growth, creates economic and social problems.
On the other hand if we are about to automate tons of stuff it means we need less humans to run things, and if medicine keeps getting better longer life and health spans somewhat offset lower birth rates.
I just dont think teen outdoor sex is the thing that should come back.
"""Among their findings were the rise of sexlessness within marriage, and the popularity of pornography and the services of sex workers, especially among men.
For instance, in some surveys from 2008 to 2024, up to 60 per cent of Japanese men said they had previously paid for sex."""
Impressive!
That doesn't make a lot of sense. 50hr/w was the norm in many countries till the 1960's or so, and yet people were having lots of babies indicating having marriages with sex.
For some reason when we started sending women out to work, the work they had been doing at home stopped being counted as work. But of course it is work, it still needs to be done. As a result, the modern 50h weeks can be anything between 60-80h weeks depending on your comfort with living in squalor, and the presence of children, it's just we for some reason only count the part you get paid for.
yup.
the rural town i'm originally from is down from ~9500 residents to a bit more than 6000 (and trending down).
> A 2017 survey of Japanese students aged 16–22 found that 14–17 per cent of them admitted to having romantic feelings towards a character in a video game or anime.
TIL about the name of this phenomenon. I see this always in the context of "terminal online anime fan" but it made me think and look into other occurrences of similar parasocial behavior like the early Sherlock Holmes fandom.
With this current social and tech trends I think we are going to see more Pygmalionic SexBots startups in next cohorts.
This isn't good if you don't want men becoming increasingly conservative, which is already well underway.
As usual, games of telephone change things pretty radically:
Porn showing choking or incest
And a hilarious titbit: cousin incest porn is banned, but in real life, it's not :)
No, some online porn is unavailable if you don't use a VPN or send personal details to some dodgy "age verification" site, but lesser known porn websites are still accessible.
That's not what a "ban" is.
If it was, I could say "driving cars is banned in the UK if you don't show the insurance company your licence".
> And a hilarious titbit: cousin incest porn is banned, but in real life, it's not :)
At the turn of the century, as a 16 year old myself back then, I noted the same about the UK age of consent being 2 years lower than the age at which you were allowed to watch recordings or be in recordings oneself.
I'm making a point about current general trends and their potential consequences, not listing facts.
This male/female divide is becoming huge in Korea, if I've heard correctly.
(Not that Mormon voting was ever directed by Japanese mating habits. But you get my point.)
Btw, is it good or bad for individuals and for society?
I would speculate that people can fulfill their need of intimacy online which results in lowered incentive to persuade it in real life.
But in the digital world You just swap apps, nobody judges, and You alway get dopamine.
Hmm. Did the subjects say worse?
Legalize it, organize free rock and roll parties with no phone policy every weekend, see sex and pregnancy rates go sky high in the matter of months.
This and maybe prosecute a parent when he/she kidnaps the children, denying visits or any interaction with the other parent.
Do both please.
Japanese people really hate physical contact, or any contact by the way.
In my experience of having lived in Japan, I find this simply not true. Of course this is my own anecdata. Physical contact, from my experience, is seen as a more intimate gesture. It depends on the nature of the relationship. In places like America, lots of people would give a hug (at the very least a one arm hug) to their friends when they're parting ways. Japanese don't do that ever from what I've seen, they'll just wave goodbye to each other. But I have seen plenty of hugging, hand holding, and other public displays of affection among those who are intimate.
Downvoted. but in time it will be clear whats likely the cause of this