Japan losing interest in sex, relationships, and having kids

[Final-Fan]

Ganoncrotch said:

Final-Fan said:

Ganoncrotch, you can do better than this hysteria.  100% ... if not more!  lol

"a whopping 43% of the traditionally horny 18-34 age bracket, have never had sex."
- The OP, approximating from 42% of men and 44% of women in that age group. 

How do you square this with what you said?  It not only contradicts your hyperbole but also deeply undercuts your overall accusation, doesn't it?

[edit:  Actually, now that I am taking a closer look at these articles, I'm beginning to suspect that the aforementioned 18-34 age group is the entire basis of their stories.  It's not hard for me to believe that they oversimplified "43% of 18-34" to "almost half of under 40".  If anyone has evidence contradicting this view, please let me know.] 

Look having read the majority of the terribly written article that a lot of those figures are drawn from https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/young-single-people-in-japan-aren-t-having-sex-and-the-reason-is-proving-fatal which is where a lot of the OP's links cite as being the ones who looked deeper into the numbers, the analysis and interviews done by that outlet are done pretty much to get hits for the site, which they've done with fairly decent success, keep in mind that one of the links in the OP is also a 2 year old article based on something different but it's a good clickbaity title none the less.

I'm not going to waste more of my own time on this trash survey/article though but I will say this, you think that they asked any amount of 18 year old males if they had sex or not... and got an honest answer? from that point on you should know that the numbers in the survey are going to be no real indication of the real world, I would almost point out that the % of 18 year olds who might be doing a survey legitimately.... are going to be those who aren't having sex... because normal 18 year olds have better things to be doing than fill out surveys.

I couldn't find the actual data from the survey btw after checking through 2 of the articles but all I could find was %'ages and certain age groups along with qualifiers such as "of that age group who weren't married, X% was single and X% of those hadn't had sex" so if you have 100 people, 50 of which are married, 25 of which are in relationships then the % of the people who you are talking about being virgins is only 25% of the initial 100, even if 100% of that group are virgins... it's 25 out of 100 people, this is why % isn't the best way of tracking the real figures.

notice OP has left out some portions of quotes which state this, but in the original articles (which are really not worth the time of reading)

"Many aren’t having sex either. In fact, around 44 per cent of unmarried women and 42 per cent of unmarried men admit they are virgins, according to The 2015 National Fertility Survey, which is a kind of sex and relationship census conducted by the government every five years."

So yeah it's based on 44% of unmarried men which does not mean that nearly half are virgins... even if the survey was 100% correct it would mean that 44% of a certain % are virgins and again.... a large % of the unmarried will be minors.

This is a much better objection than the previous one.