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News.com.au reports:

Lack of sex blamed for low birth rate

Posted by Tim B. on 06/22/2006 at 10:30 AM
  1. Having recently retiring my secret identity as Onan the hairypalm (got a missus) I can honestly say its not my fault.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 22 at 10:36 AM • permalink

  2. Um… yeah, that’ll do it.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 22 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  3. Duh!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 22 at 10:52 AM • permalink

  4. I keep having sex but I’ve only been born once.  Am I doing something wrong?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 22 at 10:53 AM • permalink

  5. "As much as subsidies and welfare programs are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem.”

    So let me get this straight, the Japanese are using (or considering) subsidies and welfare programs to “solve” the “problem” of a low national birth rate; a low birth rate that is apparently “caused” by a lower than global average rate of sexual relations among its population.

    Perhaps the populace has decided that the Japanese homeland is too crowded.

    Or they saw Al Gore’s movie, and agree that global population is too high, and are willing to do their share to reduce mankind’s footprint on our globe.

    Posted by Forbes on 2006 06 22 at 10:57 AM • permalink

  6. Or maybe they just don’t like each other.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 22 at 11:00 AM • permalink

  7. It’s because they have sex standing up, you can’t get preggers like that. Duh!.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 22 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  8. You mean you have to have COPULATION? EEWWWWWWWWW

    Posted by SoberHT on 2006 06 22 at 11:04 AM • permalink

  9. (preemptive strike, a la George Bush)

    Paco!  Please don’t comment that you happen to have a business, perhaps named Paco’s Penetration and Impregnation Service, that can quickly and thoroughly ream remedy Japan’s problem.  And no, I don’t care how many men here you’ve already signed up for the cause.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 22 at 11:15 AM • permalink

  10. It comes from eating bamboo.  Pandas have it too.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 06 22 at 11:34 AM • permalink

  11. Shouldn’t the piece be headlined “Experts Say...”, or does James Taranto have a copyright on it along with “What would we do without experts”?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 22 at 11:43 AM • permalink

  12. Lack of sex blamed for low birth rate

    What about NZ, surely- like all the Western world- their birthrate is in decline? The men are getting plenty of good sheep-sex. How do we explain this?

    (Apologies, couldnt resist)

    Posted by anthony27 on 2006 06 22 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  13. Dr Kitamura’s advice? Couples should talk to each other.

    Mmmmm, no, that’s not how it works.

    #9: Ok, but I was going to ask you to serve as lead, er, consultant.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 22 at 11:49 AM • permalink

  14. One for Taranto’s “Bottom Story of the Day” file…

    Posted by PW on 2006 06 22 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  15. Birds do it
    Bees do it
    But don’t suppose the Japanese do it
    Let’s do it
    Let’s fall in love....

    Posted by SoberHT on 2006 06 22 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  16. Hmmmm.

    Well I’m ready to fly on over and help out.

    Posted by memomachine on 2006 06 22 at 01:33 PM • permalink

  17. Hmmmm.

    Paco!  Please don’t comment that you happen to have a business, perhaps named Paco’s Penetration and Impregnation Service, that can quickly and thoroughly ream remedy Japan’s problem.

    Ok now that’s funny!

    No what would the tv commerical be like?

    rofl.

    Posted by memomachine on 2006 06 22 at 01:38 PM • permalink

  18. Rich, a lot of people are born again but I don’t think they need to have sex to do so.
    I am confused now.

    Posted by Latino on 2006 06 22 at 01:47 PM • permalink

  19. I keep having sex but I’ve only been born once.  Am I doing something wrong?

    That depends, richard.  Are you alone when you have sex?  ;-P

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 22 at 02:00 PM • permalink

  20. All right, how about this: edible kimonos.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 22 at 02:17 PM • permalink

  21. 12 anthony27

    The men are getting plenty of good sheep-sex. How do we explain this?

    Ummm, an increase in the play and singing of the Whiffenpoof Song.

    We’re poor little lambs who have lost our way:

    Baa!  Baa!  Baa!

    Lord have mercy on such as we:

    Baa!  Baa!  Baa!

    20 paco

    edible kimonos

    It a robe...like a banana you peel it off...lol.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 06 22 at 03:01 PM • permalink

  22. #21: Well, yeah, that would work, too, I guess.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 22 at 03:16 PM • permalink

  23. "Japanese people simply aren’t having sex,”

    In the association’s survey, 44 per cent of the people who said they were not having much sex felt that having a relationship with the opposite sex was “very tiresome” or “tiresome”.

    What the fuck is wrong with these people?

    Seriously, small Islands, lots of people...bad news...have they heard of birth control, or tubes tied (either sex), or hey an oldies but goodie...RUBBERS? (although not a favorite of mine, they do serve a purpose). BUT just NOT have sex?

    Of course they could always be pulling (excuse) a Bill and Monica.

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 06 22 at 03:17 PM • permalink

  24. I wish folks would make up their mind about things.  First everybody ran around in circles waving their arms hysterically over an exploding population of homo sapien sapiens which would collapse the sustainability, and all the other -abilities, of the earth’s resources, engendering worldwide starvation and a mass die-off.  Personally, that looked like a built in solution to the problem, so I couldn’t figure out what the hoopla was all about.

    Now all I hear about is the collapsing of the democratic populations of the world.  Wasn’t that the intended result of the hand-waving 30 some-odd years ago?

    You mean those predictions might have been, gasp, wrong?

    Whomever it was that got the government grant to make the study, and you just know it was a government grant, I want his job.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 06 22 at 03:24 PM • permalink

  25. I wish folks would make up their mind about things.  First everybody ran around in circles waving their arms hysterically over an exploding population of homo sapien sapiens which would collapse the sustainability, and all the other -abilities, of the earth’s resources, engendering worldwide starvation and a mass die-off.  Personally, that looked like a built in solution to the problem, so I couldn’t figure out what the hoopla was all about.

    Now all I hear about is the collapsing of the democratic populations of the world.  Wasn’t that the intended result of the hand-waving 30 some-odd years ago?

    You mean those predictions might have been, gasp, wrong?

    You don’t get it - the hoopla was that there were too many brown-skinned people those the populations that needed reducing, according to the wisdom of the time.

    I note that people still mistakenly think that “overpopulation” is somewhat an African problem. Odd, when you consider only 8% of humanity live in Africa. But, I suppose the underlying racism of the anti-population movement is still there - it’s not that there are too many people, just too many black people.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 22 at 06:28 PM • permalink

  26. Lack of sex blamed for low birth rate

    And in other breaking news:

    Day follows night.
    Pope still Catholic.
    Pork chops spurned at bar mitzvah.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 06 22 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  27. Tim - Fred at Rantburg has a cool “Master of the Obvious” graphic he might lend you.  ;-p

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 06 22 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  28. Japanese doing it less than 45 times per year??
    Jeez, about 9 years ago a mate of mine scored higher than that on one 10 day cruiseship holiday.
    Anyone remember the Fairstar?

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 06 22 at 08:50 PM • permalink

  29. The Real JeffS—Of course not.  If I want to get jerked off, I have Congress… okay, this imagery is getting very confusing here…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 22 at 08:52 PM • permalink

  30. It’s because the Japanese don’t have the right role models. We should send them Shane Warne, Rex Hunt or any member of the Canterbury Bulldogs.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2006 06 22 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  31. Turning Japanese,
    I think I’m turning Japanese
    I need to get some

    Turning Japanese
    I think I’m turning Japanese
    I need to get some

    Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 06 23 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  32. Would anybody get offended if I made a joke about Japanese guys spending too much time in the wrong sushi box.

    Maybe they need chopsticks to lift the birthrate?

    Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 06 23 at 12:11 AM • permalink

  33. Drink alcohol responibly advertising campaigns - low birth rates. Coincidence? I think not.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 06 23 at 01:43 AM • permalink

  34. The (WHMECDM) President

    Well the chopsticks could make ideal splints if used imaginatively. That and a couple of lackey bands and viagra eat your heart out.
    I tend to blame aniome tenticle porn myself. Having ...erm...heard about that sort of thing.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 23 at 02:07 AM • permalink

  35. #34 - Legend of The Overfiend, methinks. Pornographic tentacles featured very prominently in one scene.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 06 23 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  36. Ah sex, I remember that.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 06 23 at 06:02 AM • permalink

  37. #35 - in one scene? I remember ..umm.. being told...by someone.. that it was more than one.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 06 23 at 09:07 AM • permalink

  38. It’s possible anime tentacle porn (I’m given to understand there might be one or two more titles beyond Legend of the Overfiend) has given Japanese women unreasonable expectations about the average stubby little bugger unfortunate Japanese man…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 23 at 09:56 AM • permalink

  39. This thread is just so disturbing on so many levels.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 23 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  40. I like ornamental Asian women. So I suggest you all quit making fun of this terrible, serious, situation, and you take up a collection you send me to Japan with a case full of rubbers—where I will single-handedly solve this problem, or die trying.

    Posted by Supercat on 2006 06 23 at 02:31 PM • permalink

  41. Supercat, if we send you to Japan with a case full of rubbers---methinks you miss the point…

    Posted by ushie on 2006 06 24 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  42. Yeah but Ushie he has a point -he’d be improving the gene pool by rubbing himself out.

    Posted by crash on 2006 06 25 at 08:54 AM • permalink

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