What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates
Arm’s length: 45% of
Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or despise sexual
contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way. Photograph: Eric
Rechsteiner
Ai Aoyama is a
sex
and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey
home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means "love" in Japanese,
and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix.
Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she
did "all the usual things" like tying people up and dripping hot wax on
their nipples. Her work today, she says, is far more challenging.
Aoyama, 52, is trying to cure what
Japan's media calls
sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome".
Japan's
under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships.
Millions aren't even dating, and increasing numbers can't be bothered
with sex.
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