According to the AFP, a whopping 36.1% of teenage boys in between the ages of 16 and 19 said that they had no interest in sex, and in some cases even despised it.
Furthermore, the survey concluded that 83.7% of Japanese men who turned 20 this year were not dating anyone, while 49.3% said they had never had a girlfriend.
Girls, on the other hand, are suffering from a similar lack of heat; 59% in the same age group felt the same way.
The head of the clinic of the Japan Family Planning Association, which also took part in the survey, said that the data conforms a wider social belief that younger Japanese men are becoming "herbivorous", which is a labels attached to passive men who rate not actively seeking women and sex. Many younger people were opting to delay starting a family due to the perceived burden on their finances, lifestyles and careers. "The findings seem to reflect the increasing shallowness of human relation in today`s busy society." she said.
The study which surveys 1,301 people between the ages of 16-49, also revealed a handful of other surprises: 40.8 percent of marries people said they had not had sex in the past month. 50 percent of marries people older than 40 years old said they have not had sex in the past month. Some participants claimed work fatigue and reluctance to have sex after childbirth, while others said they just "can`t be bothered"
"Obviously the most important reason for Japan`s declining birth rate is that people are not having sex," she said, "combined with the rising number of elderly people, this population imbalance is a major problem."