{"id":22922,"date":"2019-04-18T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=22922"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:08:24","slug":"income-and-virginity-among-japanese-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/income-and-virginity-among-japanese-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Income and virginity among Japanese men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/08\/health\/japan-sexual-inexperience-intl\/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3o-Rd41pxVwpxkQwHvsOeJySi7p0jve3sGvO4Z5xij_o39Qh4LHwPGooY\">&#8220;About 1 in 4 Japanese adults in their 20s and 30s are virgins, says study&#8221; <\/a>(CNN) started a bit of discussion among some of my (married high-income guy) friends. They highlighted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8216;Money talks&#8217;<\/strong><br>The report found that a higher percentage of men on lower incomes remained sexually inexperienced compared to women.<br>&#8220;Although the discussion around cause and effect becomes very complex when considering who becomes sexually experienced and who remains a virgin, we show that heterosexual inexperience is at least partly a socioeconomic issue for men. Simply put, money talks,&#8221; said Cyrus Ghaznavi, the lead author of the study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/Summary\">references to DNA analysis<\/a> showing that fewer than half of human males have been selected by females for reproductive success (in the U.S. the relationship between male income and fatherhood is distorted by the welfare system; it is not financially irrational for an American woman to continue a pregnancy following sex with a no-income or low-income man (though it makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/ChildSupportLitigationWithoutMarriage\">better financial sense to find an already-married high-income sex partner<\/a>))<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;About 1 in 4 Japanese adults in their 20s and 30s are virgins, says study&#8221; (CNN) started a bit of discussion among some of my (married high-income guy) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-child-support-custody-family-law","category-human-nature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Income and virginity among Japanese men - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/income-and-virginity-among-japanese-men\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Income and virginity among Japanese men - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;About 1 in 4 Japanese adults in their 20s and 30s are virgins, says study&#8221; 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