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60 percent of Japanese men ages 20 to 30 don't want relationships or sex with women
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I cut out the not so important portions of the article because I know that a lot of you hate the long texts. The rest can be found here NPR Choice page
The wealthier a country becomes the more this shyt happens. It's actually happening in places such as Germany to a lesser extent. America is next, maybe in the next 20 years
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The sensitive New Age man has finally arrived in the land of the salaryman. But there is a catch — a particularly important one in Japan, where the declining birthrate has caused alarm: The new Japanese man doesn't appear to be interested in women or sex.
......These young men are becoming known as Japan's "herbivores" — from the Japanese phrase for "grass-eating boys" — guys who are heterosexual but who say they aren't really interested in matters of the flesh.....
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. ......
Japan's top expert on herbivores, Maki Fukasawa, believes they were born from the lost decade of economic stagnation. She christened the tribe in 2006 and recently wrote a book called The Herbivore Generation, which breaks herbivores down into 23 distinct subcategories. She argues that the herbivores are rebelling against the salaryman generation of their fathers, consciously turning away from the macho mores and conspicuous consumption of that era.
"They have some feelings of revulsion towards the older generation," says Fukasawa. "They don't want to have the same lives. And the impact of the herbivores on the economy is very big. They're such big news now because sales are down, especially of status products like cars and alcohol."
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"Nowadays, women have more education and enjoy working. Women are scary now," he says.
And, of course, there is a name, too, for the economically empowered working Japanese women who know what they want: the carnivore women. With herbivore boys and carnivore girls, it seems the land of samurai, sumo wrestlers and geisha girls is remaking its gender landscape anew.
I cut out the not so important portions of the article because I know that a lot of you hate the long texts. The rest can be found here NPR Choice page
The wealthier a country becomes the more this shyt happens. It's actually happening in places such as Germany to a lesser extent. America is next, maybe in the next 20 years
