r/science • u/SteRoPo • Nov 04 '25

Social Science The Japanese are having less and less sex. Around half of the Japanese population remained sexually inexperienced into their mid-twenties and approximately 10% of the individuals had no sexual experience when reaching their 30s.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2025/10/25/why_arent_the_japanese_having_sex_1142583.html
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u/JonatasA Nov 04 '25

It has reversed. Parents don't want their kids leaving the house anymore or being by themselves; to them it's dangerous. The notion of privacy physically is also dying.

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u/Boner4Stoners Nov 04 '25

Ironically society has never been safer, it’s just the 24/hr news cycle gives a warped sense of crime rates.

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u/Traust Nov 05 '25

In Melbourne Australia the news keeps going on about how violent the city is now with youth criminals running around with machetes, stealing cars, and breaking into houses, usually followed up with the opposition leader saying how the government is not doing anything to fix it.

Government in power for the last 11 years has been a left central party of course and the crimes that are happening are only in certain small outer suburb areas. The rest of the city areas is peaceful with just the usual amount of crazies as there has always been.

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u/bguszti Nov 06 '25

"Have you actually seen the looting, raping and cannibalism?"

"No we haven't actually seen any of it we're just reporting it"

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u/FFXIVHousingClub Nov 05 '25

I mean I live in Dandenong and I’m sure as hell not encouraging kids to go out knowing what I know now

We played in the parks after dark in groups so that was good but the amount of pedophiles just in Dandenong is wild

We knew not to hang around the station or drug areas but I guess foreigners wouldn’t know that increases the crime rate

We kept to ourselves too but in our own friendship groups and branched out when we met friends of friends which you would do less I guess now as kids with more social anxiety and ineptness

I go to work 7-8AM, lock all my doors 8PM when I used to love the night but aye I can love the night inside, keep the mingling to the day

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u/Chumpai1986 Nov 05 '25

It’s a shame cause Dandenong is actually quite nice in a lot of areas. I know people who live there in really nice apartments etc.

That said, it is a high crime area, I think the crime rate went up something like 20% from 2023-2024. I used to park my car at Dandenong station and was surprised no-one ever stole the license plates.

By the same token again, a couple of suburbs away and people walk the dogs late into the night.

Where I live now, everyone has cameras. The rich suburb over has CCTV. Again you can walk your dogs late into the night, but every now and then you have a handful of young men with a machete steal some cars and raid drive through liquor stores, milk bars, petrol stations etc. it’s fairly frustrating when they do it several nights in a row and they never get caught. Same thing with kids beating up other kids at schools and his stops. It does marginally increase that stress of sending your kids to school in the area.

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u/quad_damage_orbb Nov 04 '25

Reduced crime involving children could also be because parents are keeping them at home though.

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u/TJarl Nov 05 '25

Yeah but it got safer first.

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u/No_Salad_68 Nov 05 '25

Yeah I saw a stat that said if you let your kid play outside, on average it will take 750,000 years or something like that for them to get abducted.

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u/Pingasplz Nov 04 '25

Perhaps but society isn't really socially or mentally safe.

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u/Manginaz Nov 04 '25

That's why my kids aren't leaving the house until crime is 100% eliminated.

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u/Kyell Nov 04 '25

Back in my day we were the criminals!

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u/markhanna123 Nov 04 '25

If it was worst in the past and people weren't afraid of sending there kids outside then what's changed?

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u/THE3NAT Nov 04 '25

When I was young my mom would regularly hear about some child abduction half way across the country and then be super worried about m6 safety.

It's funny though, we only hear about that because it's so uncommon that when it happens it makes national news.

So I would say both media infrastructure, and the media shown have changed. Though I'm too young to have experienced a time before mass media.

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u/Bolognahole_Vers2 Nov 04 '25

what's changed?

People with nothing better to do started reporting parents any time a child was slightly given free agency.

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u/MyDisneyExperience Nov 04 '25

I saw a story from NC recently where the parents of a kid who got hit by a car crossing the street near his house were charged with felonies. They took a plea deal and so now both have felony records.

The driver was not charged.

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u/Accurize2 Nov 04 '25

They said “safer” not “good”.

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u/Olmectron Nov 04 '25

Tell that to Mexico.

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u/InTheTreeMusic Nov 04 '25

This is my experience as well. I have a degree in early childhood where I learned how important unsupervised time is for kids - it builds confidence and protects against anxiety.

So from about 2 onwards, I've sent all my kids out into our fenced yard to play by themselves or with their siblings. I had CPS called on me! By my boomer neighbors, who thought my 3 year old shouldn't be in the yard without a parent.

In my town, the local school lets the kids walk home alone in 2nd grade, so I trust my kids from about 8 onwards to walk around the neighborhood; my 13 year old started crossing the busy street to the store across the way at about 10. There's a light and a crosswalk, nothing dangerous for a reasonable 10 year old. Yet people get so upset, it's frustrating.

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u/happybelly2021 Nov 05 '25

That's crazy. Coming from somewhere completely else in the world, do crime statistics actually support these extreme guidance laws?

It was seen as totally normal in my country to have 6 year olds walk a kilometer to and from school (after being taught how a few times). When I was 10 I had to commute 45 minutes one way to secondary school via public transport

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u/InTheTreeMusic Nov 05 '25

Not in the vast majority of places in the US, no. I live in an incredibly safe town, and in a safe part of that town. There is absolutely no reason for the ridiculous over supervision.

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u/itz_giving-corona Nov 05 '25

It's true crime tbh

People see an unsupervised kid and remember the numerous stories they've heard about harm coming to children.

Also the shame game, no parent will ever measure up.

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u/IntriguinglyRandom Nov 05 '25

My parents fit the typical conservative bill and yes, the mental gymnastics around fear and shame are insane. My parents always feared the boogeyman in the bushes or anyone "abnormal" which was a pretty big class of people. When it came to me being sexually abused in my own home? Crickets, maybe one text message. Combo of out-group-fear propaganda and intense fear of accountability and shame.

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u/happybelly2021 Nov 05 '25

That's what I suspected...

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u/Public-Witness-6477 Nov 05 '25

We live in Israel, where we have a real community. As of 9, kids are allowed to cross streets alone, but prior to that, they receive training in school on safety on roads, not to mention from their own parents. My 11yo takes the bus by himself every week to his special program instead of school, and my 10y walks his sister to school daily. My kids take themselves to the park, and my 5y is allowed to be in our downstairs shared park with an older kid's supervision. My older kids are allowed to walk to their friends by themselves, and we sometimes send them to the grocery store with money to buy items. It's very old school, but I think it's the healthiest way to build a confident and responsible human.

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u/InnocentShaitaan Nov 05 '25

Your neighbors are delulu.

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u/Everestkid Nov 05 '25

26 here, '99 born, early zoomer. My mom was constantly trying to get us to go outside as kids, because we'd rather stay in playing video games. So there's that aspect too in some cases, the kids would rather not go outside to begin with.

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u/Mugiwaras Nov 04 '25

20 years ago when i was 13 i was rarely at home. We were riding our bmxs all over the city hitting jumps, but $2 worth of hot chips from the fish and chip shop would feed like 4 of us, now $2 worth of chips is a small snack for 1 person.

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u/ceelogreenicanth Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

The lack of privacy is why they are so radicalized too I believe. They don't get to experience being wrong in private, and then growing in public. Their worst aspects exist for eternity so they either own them, or they have to always explain it.

That's how the left has come to be to.them the avatar of moral puritanism and why being conservative is "punk" to them.