World in View

Emerging Trends - Sex and Marriage Around the World

A Depopulation crisis looms where people fear commitment to the opposite sex to the point that they are not entering into relationships or getting married. ‘Friends with benefits’ is the new normal or intimacy is avoided altogether. Pets and gadgets replace human relationships. Millennials spend most of their income on personal comforts and see marriage as too expensive and burdensome children are even more so.

The Current Trends By the age of 50, 1 in 4, Japanese men have never married. Their salaries today are so low they try to make it up with overtime work. Meanwhile, the demands of females can’t be met by the men as the Millennial women, many of whom choose good paying careers above marriage, are refusing to lower their financial expectations. A Japanese Cabinet Office survey in 2019 said, society isn’t having enough sex and therefore the population has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1899. Almost half of single people in Japan who want to get married are unable to find a suitable partner. In an online survey of around 4,000 men and women aged between 20 to 40 years old, 46.8 percent of respondents said they could not find a suitable partner to marry due to lack of opportunities to meet or an inability to get along. A separate survey showed the country’s number of births fell to 918,397 in 2018, compared to a birth rate of 2.7 million in the late 1940s.

The country’s fertility rate, which measures the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her life, has also declined to 1.42, well below the 2.07 rate required to maintain the population. p

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-birthrate-marriage-partner-cabinet-survey-a8966291.html www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/ japan-mystery-low-birth-rate/534291/ Consequently the rise of sex toys and the replacing of human wives for dolls and robots are rising. Bodybuilder Yuri TolChoko of Khzistan proposed to and married his doll after dating it for 8 months.

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Acceptance of the LGBTQ community and growing interest among women towards experimenting with sexual ‘wellness’ products [sex toys] without hesitation is promoting the adoption of such products and hence, driving the market growth.

One of the growing trends in the sex toys industry is the adoption of cuttingedge technology for the development of innovative products. Virtual gadgets, remotely connected devices, robots, immersive entertainment, and augmented reality are factors expected to change the landscape of the market in the coming years. p

Published Jan, 2021 www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/sextoys-market

According to the 2019 Plastic Surgery

Statistics by the American Society

of Plastic Surgeons, around 11,000 gender confirmation or sex reassignment surgeries were performed in the U.S., which was around 10% to 15% higher than the previous year. The increasing number of sex reassignment surgeries in the U.S. will propel the growth of the [sex reassignment surgery] market during the forecast period. p

Published Dec, 2020 www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sexreassignment-surgery-market

Sex “reassignment” doesn’t work.

It’s impossible to “reassign” someone’s sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially… the medical evidence suggests that sex reassignment does not adequately address the psychosocial difficulties faced by people who identify as transgender. Even when the procedures are successful technically and cosmetically, and even in cultures that are relatively “trans-friendly,” transitioners still face poor outcomes. Dr. Paul McHugh, the university distinguished service professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains: Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’ In that lies their problematic future. When ‘the tumult and shouting dies,’ it proves not easy nor wise to live in a counterfeit sexual garb. The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered - documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sexreassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers. p

March 9th, 2018 www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sexreassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence