{"id":67668,"date":"2024-11-05T12:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/05\/kiss-chaste-number-of-high-school-boys-in-japan-who-have-had-first-kiss-falls-to-1970s-levels"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T03:22:45","slug":"kiss-chaste-number-of-high-school-boys-in-japan-who-have-had-first-kiss-falls-to-record-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67668","title":{"rendered":"Kiss chaste: number of high school boys in Japan who have had first kiss falls to record lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls showing downward trend in kissing indicates a move away from \u2018real physical sexual activity\u2019 that could affect country\u2019s birthrate, experts say<\/p>\n<p>Just one in five of boys at senior high school in Japan have had their first kiss, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jase.faje.or.jp\/\">Japanese Association for Sex Education<\/a> \u2013 the lowest figure since the organisation conducted its first survey of sexual behaviour among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/youngpeople\">young people<\/a> in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest poll, which covers the 2023 academic year, the association found that girls in the same age group were similarly cautious, with 27.5% saying they had experienced their first kiss, compared with 22.8% among boys \u2013 down 13.6 percentage points and 11.1 points since 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/05\/kiss-chaste-number-of-high-school-boys-in-japan-who-have-had-first-kiss-falls-to-1970s-levels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls showing downward trend in kissing indicates a move away from \u2018real physical sexual activity\u2019 that could affect country\u2019s birthrate, experts sayJust one in five of boys at senior high school in Japan have had their first kiss, according to the Jap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sex"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67669,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668\/revisions\/67669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}