We've looked at surveys before -- from men who never date to the best breasts, habits and the most-viewed Wikipedia pages. Now Sagami, one of Japan's leading condom makers, has released the results of a big nationwide survey, Nippon no Sex, it did in January this year. It surveyed 14,100 men and women online (plus 29,315 in a pre-survey), aged from their twenties to their sixties, and from all of Japan's forty-seven prefectures. The results are a little alarming in places, such as that 40.6% of Japanese males are still virgins (as opposed to just 25.5% of women), and that the average ...

That's what the results of a survey would have us believe. It surveyed 3,616 men and women aged 20 to 49 around Japan on the theme of marriage and children online in early February. 30% of men in both their twenties and thirties answered that they had never had sex or been in a relationship. The numbers of people dated increases for men in their thirties compared with respondents in their twenties, but the proportion of people who with no experience of romance among the unmarried remains the same. On the other hand, girls in their twenties with no experience of a relationship is ...

Sometimes I don't get Japan at all. And it's my own country. So-called "sexless" relationships are a big problem here. There are marriages up and down the land where no fucking is happening between man and wife. And it's not just the middle-aged. Even the youngsters aren't up to as much as they should be. This is bad news for condom makers. One contraception manufacturer has said that its sales of condoms is just 60% of what it was 30 years ago. Personally, though, knowing a lot of chums, I reckon it's the local penchant for not using a condom and ending it all with a glorious bukkake ...