Japanese Youth: IQ and Lust in Decline?
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 12, 2008 02:23 JST
- Tags: Business, Demographics, Education, Japan, Mass Media, Sex
Two rather similar stories come to my attention via Itainews, one alleging that Japanese youth are suffering from a decline in literacy and historical knowledge, and another asserting the Japan’s sex trade is facing dire straits because young men no longer have the sex drive they once had (presumably they are pursuing alternatives rather than abstinence, although the article doesn’t address this for reasons which will become obvious).
The claim of a decline in literacy and historical knowledge comes from film subtitlers complaining that their job is becoming harder due to young people not being able to read more obscure kanji, or read quickly, and that they can no longer assume their audience is aware of what terms like “Nazi” and “USSR” refer to; a familiar sort of claim in the world over.
The claim of reduced sex drive in young men is based on statistics showing an increase in “sexless” men (and of course the reduction in birth rate), and is provided by the JFPA (an organisation of clinics, in other words). Additionally, some interviews with writers in the sex industry also provide anecdotal evidence of young patrons not using brothels.
These stories are entertaining and attention grabbing (certainly their intent given the sources), but if I were to offer my own opinion, I would have to say they are nothing more than column inch shifting mass media fluff – you are probably familiar with the genre of “our youth is in decline” newspaper articles from your own local media, which usually assert some catastrophe is impending due to the decline in whatever, and I put it to you that millenarianism has always had its converts. As to the decline in lust, I think you need look no further than the people interviewed – it is hardly surprising that those who depend on clinics and brothels would be interested in asserting there is a problem – they have their sales to think of.
Lolz… not to mention children have been declining with most new families reduce their instinct and desire for generativity.
Again… is matter of time before all those schools, and training centre for children close doors.
Like brothels are a great thing. Much better that people be jacking off to porn than fucking prostitutes.
I really wish the sex industry would die. Because sex really isn’t something you should pay for. That fact that anyone would call less prostitution a decline in society is frustratingly silly.
i shouldn’t have to pay someone to pump petrol into my car. it should just be part of the service. i shouldn’t be expected to pay for food from a grocer cause if i don’t eat i will die and thus not be contributing to society.
however, what i do need to pay for is time. other peoples time and the jobs they do for me that i otherwise can’t do or are just too damn lazy to do myself.
that is why people do/should pay for sex. it’s the time you waste of the prostitute while you get your rocks off, he/she could be doing an art course, saving lives or doing whatever they feel like filling their time with.
more over, it is a job. how would you like to go to work everyday and not get paid for what you are doing. these people are letting you in on a rather personal side of their life.
considering the health risk that a prostitute takes everytime they take on a new client, they really don’t charge that much for a service i would be too scared to offer myself. unfortunately they are a commodity and a service that the world needs, so who cares if they make a little cash along the way.
i triple DARE you to say that brothels are great, after you have watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7En-A1k1Ac&NR=1
Well considert hat more and more younger people are becomming more and more intwined in the internet, really how many people from 10 to 20 dont know how to find what ever they want to find on the internet. that said if you can get off looking at porn on the net then there is less of a need to pay money no one seems to have for that quick fix. just another angle for the decline in sex amongst young people… options.
I’ve actually heard that people who have very high IQ’s also generally have very high sex drives, so there may be some truth to this. Perhaps low IQ=low sex drive after all.
Natural selection at work…..btw do you have a source for that fact? Am interested…
I don’t see how it’s a decline in IQ so much more as a decline in historical awareness as this article indicates. I mean…IQ isn’t based solely on historical knowledge, if it did, all elementary children would have the IQ of the mentally handicapped.
raep and such still happens everyday, saying people are losing their sex drives is total bullshit, and everyone knows it.
What do they expect when they deny the men lolis and shotas, where does the sex drive go but the tomb?