Rainen no kono hi mo issho ni waratteiyoh - 'this time next year, we'll be laughing together', or, more literally, 'let's smile together a year after today'. When this is a genuine Japanese pick-up line, you know that there's a serious drought going on.
If you're ever upset about the lack of action you're getting then please spare a thought for the people of Japan, because a new study has shown that they are just not doing it. At all.
A study of 18-34 year olds found that around 42 percent of males and 44.2 percent of females were virgins, according to the Japan Times. The survey also found that 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women were single - which is fucking unbelievable, haven't they got Tinder?
Yes, they have Tinder! Perhaps the people in the survey just have great banter?
This all gets even weirder when you compare it to the results of a previous survey, which featured in the Washington Post, that found that 45 percent of Japanese women and 25 percent of Japanese men, aged 16 to 24, are 'not interested in or despised sexual contact'. Despised? Fucking hell. You're doing it wrong, Japan.
Perhaps the nation that invented Hentai is all shagged out or too busy wanking in a darkened room to actually go out and meet new people?
Japan's declining birth-rates have got the government worried, especially with an ageing population, but despite its best efforts to get more people shagging and having babies, the birth rate is still dropping. Who'd have thought? It's almost like the government telling you to have sex is a turn off or something...
No more hageshikushite for this lot.
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