Both female and male prostitutes walked the streets, offering a full range of services. Reliable data are difficult to come by, but softer services seem to be gaining popularity at the expense of harder ones such as vaginal sex which is illegal but widely available or oral sex which is legal. The sex trade in Japan has long been about not only intercourse, but also the yearning for intimacy and romance, says Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, and these are the services that are growing. Onakura shops allow men to masturbate, while female employees watch. The pornography industry is in rude health, too. The shift to less carnal services started after the second world war, when the prudish American occupiers urged the Japanese authorities, against their better judgment, to outlaw payment for vaginal sex in More recently, however, demographic and economic factors have accelerated the change.

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The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. Quite funny. But the statistic seems ridiculously high. Would someone so shy really be answering a survey about their private life? Okay, so Germany has much lower "sexlessness" compare to Japan, yet Germany has about the same birthrate as Japan. Isn't it common knowledge that "sex" has anything to do with the desire of people to have children? Or are people still thinking about a time when contraceptive devices weren't invented yet? The survey also found that seven-in men were not in a relationship, while nearly six in 10 women were going to bed alone. Intended or not, this is a sexist remark.
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Last weekend, the BBC published a fascinating article on the popularity of surgery designed to "restore" virginity among Arab women. For many women, lying and saying they're virgins is not enough to please the patriarchal requirement that women come to marriage without any previous sexual experience. No, a woman has to physically demonstrate that she is a virgin by experiencing tearing and bleeding on her wedding night. This sadistic requirement leads some Arab women to pay thousands of dollars to modify their genitals so they experience more pain during sex. It's brutal. The big reason for it? Arab writer and social commentator, Sana Al Khayat believes the whole issue has much to with the notion of "control". If she's been with other men, then she has experience.
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