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To: CaBum who wrote (52764)	6/23/2006 11:17:26 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

How about a picture of Nicole Kidman blows up some Japs in pearl harbor? Give some power to women! Hehe - everytime you give power to women - they use it to stop having babies and the country goes into population decline - give those women in india some more freedom and I don't think those population numbers will go up like you think: news.yahoo.com Falling Japan birth rate due to lack of sex Wed Jun 21, 11:45 PM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - More sex. That's what one expert says is needed to solve Japan's baby shortage. "Japanese people simply aren't having sex," Dr. Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan Family Planning Association, was quoted as saying by the Japan Times, an English language daily. An association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed 31 percent had not had sex for more than a month "for no particular reason" -- a condition known as "sexless." "As much as subsidies and welfare programmes are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem." Japan's fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime -- fell to an all-time low of 1.25 last year. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining. Japan came last among 41 nations in a poll last year by condom manufacturer Durex, with lovers there having sex just 45 times a year compared to a global average of 103 times a year. Kitamura said that while many men in workaholic Japan are simply too "stressed out" from their jobs to have enough energy for sex, many other couples simply do not have sex regularly. In the association's survey, 44 percent of the people who said they weren't having much sex felt that having a relationship with the opposite sex was "very tiresome" or "tiresome." Kitamura's advice? Couples should talk to each other. "Ultimately, it's these interactions with the opposite sex that bring out the inevitable animal instinct in us -- to reproduce," he said.