Sexlessness in Japanese Fiction

This episode is marked mature.Today we'll explore two trends in contemporary Japanese fiction:Protagonists who don’t want to have sexAnd women who want to have babies anyway.To take a closer look at these trends, we’re going to ask a couple of questions about contemporary Japan:What is “celibacy syndrome”? Does it even exist?What role does motherhood play in a shrinking society?And how do sexlessness and motherhood play out in 21st-century Japanese fiction?We’ll end with a closer look at Miek...