The numbers show how pandemic restrictions have affected how Japan's youth express themselves sexually, experts say. Fewer Japanese youths are having sex while more are masturbati

A recent survey by the Japanese Association for Sex Education (JASE) has highlighted a drastic decline in high school boys' first kiss. The study discovered that only 22.8% of senior high school boys in Japan had their first kiss in the 2023 academic year,

Youth intimacy declines in Japan as only about one-fifth of high school boys have had their first kiss – the lowest rate recorded since 1974

Only around one fifth of boys in high school have experienced their first kiss, the lowest figure so far in a national survey on youth sexual･･･