TOKYO (Reuters) - Long associated with seedy red light districts, sleaze and sex, Japan's love hotels are growing up to be socially acceptable and even classy, says the author of a new book on the subject.
In fact, many aren't even being used for "love" anymore.
"Increasingly, people are frequenting love hotels who have no intention of having sex with each other," said Sarah Chaplin, author and professor of architecture at the U.K.'s Kingston University.
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"If you look at Japanese demographics on marriage and relationships and sales of condoms and all sorts of things, there is a kind of voluntary abstinence going on," Chaplin said.
Japan ranked last in a 26 nation survey of sexual activity released in July by condom maker Durex. The average Japanese had sex 48 times a year, well below the global average of 103 times.
That is so wrong. I wonder how they do on the self love front.
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