Sexual inexperience described as a national public health concern in Japan

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CNN: 1 in 4 Japanese Adults in their 20s and 30s is a virgin.

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Hong Kong (CNN) Japanese adults have their first heterosexual sexual experiences later than their counterparts in the United States and the UK, according to a new study. Public health experts at the University of Tokyo found that sexual inexperience was on the rise in the country, with the percentage of women aged 18 to 39 who'd never had sex rising to 24.6% in 2015 from 21.7% in 1992. The change was greater for men of the same age, with 25.8% virgins in 2015, up from 20% in 1992. "Sexual inexperience has become a national concern in Japan, but previous reports did not examine the trend across different age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds," said Peter Ueda, a public health researcher at the University of Tokyo and an author of the study, published Monday.

Full Article: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/healt...ntl/index.html

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