Half of Japanese married couples sleep separately, according to a survey by VenusTrap.
The online magazine asked 400 married men if they slept in the same room as their wives.
50.2% of men said they haven’t slept in the same room as their wives since getting married.
The top reason for this was that the couple were now “sexless“. 40.8% of the men who said “no” to the first question gave this as the cause for sleeping separately. “It is tough to sleep next to a woman you can’t have sex with,” some men said. Others were told by their wives, “If we’re not going to do it, then we don’t have to sleep in the same room.”
At second and 15.1%, the reason was getting up at different times.
At third and 11.2%, it was because their wives snored.
At fourth and 9.2%, it was because they had a child that still needed to be breast-fed.
At joint fifth and 8.4%, it was because the men said they snored and had been chucked out, or because the spouses had different preferences for how hot or cold the room should be.
Needless to say, this is a limited survey and we don’t know anything about the ages of the respondents. But it seems to be an unpleasant window into the lives of many married couples in Japan.
We don’t like to paint a negative picture on this blog but this narrative of sexless married life in Japan is supported by survey after survey. And it is also said to be one reason for the high rates of adultery in Japan.
