Of the 3,000 adults, male and female, interviewed for the purposes of this study, 49.3 said they had not made love, copulated, had sexual congress, screwed, done the nasty, however you want to phrase it, in the past month. These numbers are up 5 percent from the last time a similar study was conducted in 2012.
Broken down, the study found that 50.1 percent of women respondents said they had not had sex in the past month, while 48.3 percent of the men had not had sex in the previous month. Among married persons, 44.6 percent said they’d abstained for a month.
The biggest reason for the men? Too tired after returning from work — 21.3 of them said that. Another 15.7 percent said their interest in sex had dropped off following their wives pregnancies and the birth of a child.
For women, 17.8 percent gave their reason for not having sex in over a month to being tired from work, while an alarming 23.8 percent of them simply said that sex was “bothersome.”
The Telegraph points out that in the U.K. a survey found over 60 percent of adults in that country had had sex in the prior month. The normally staid-seeming, at least by reputation, Brits are considerably more randy than people in Japan where the lack of sex has lead to a declining birth rate.
The fact almost one in four women said they didn’t have sex in the past month because it was “bothersome” may be troubling for Japan but another phenomena equally troubling concerns young Japanese men. Over 20 percent of men between 25 and 29 in Japan say they are not interested in sex. They are called “herbivores.”
It’s a group that appears to be growing as the birth rate continues to decline.
