A quick google search of the terms "japan sex rates" [1] will return pages and pages of results about the high number of Japanese millennials that aren't engaging in sexual or romantic relationships, with some articles citing numbers as high as 40% of all Japanese people aged 18-34 are virgins [2]. It's even got its own name: "celibacy syndrome" [3]. A search for Korean sex rates shows very similar articles as well. [4]
I'm not sure what lessons we can draw from Japan/Korean, though, as these revelations all seem to be from relatively recently and the long-term impacts haven't been seen or explored yet. The main obvious consequence is plummeting birth rates [5, 6], which will probably have drastic economic consequences, but we may not see those consequences for decades.
I'm not sure what lessons we can draw from Japan/Korean, though, as these revelations all seem to be from relatively recently and the long-term impacts haven't been seen or explored yet. The main obvious consequence is plummeting birth rates [5, 6], which will probably have drastic economic consequences, but we may not see those consequences for decades.
1: https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+sex+rates
2: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/asia/japanese-millennials-vir...
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy_syndrome
4: http://theconversation.com/why-young-people-in-south-korea-a...
5: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/japan-shrinkin...
6: https://qz.com/1556910/south-koreas-birth-rate-just-crashed-...