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It is not impotence; merely a sexual aversion for one’s wife — rooted, in a tendency for the marital relationship to evolve over the years into a quite different relationship: mother-son, for example,

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Psychiatrist Teruo Abe, describing a newly identified syndrome among married couples: “sex disgust syndrome," which is a leading cause of sexless marriages in Japan. (Aera)

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Pure crazy it what I say.

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Does Abe conclude that men are the root cause of sexless marriages? ("...an aversion for one's wife...") I think he might have some issues of his own!

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"a tendency for the marital relationship to evolve over the years into a quite different relationship: mother-son, for example, or sister-brother"

What?!

"And sometimes, of course, there arises outright mutual hostility, not to say hatred."

Good grief! These couples need to sing "I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomoooooroooow..."

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Leave it to the Japanese to take a ubiquitous world wide phenomenon (losing sexual interest in ones partner over time) and give it a new name, and call it "recently discovered."

Who pays these clowns to come up with such shockingly astute, boldly outside the box ideas?

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Why is this always the fault of the men?

Ever thought people lose interest in their wife because they get complacent and don't bother to even try to turn their husbands on anymore?

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It all comes back to how they prioritize, or have prioritized for them, the constituent elements of their lives. Firstly work, that surrogate family whose particular requirements trump all other considerations. Then, in descending order of importance, all the other elements that represent the patterns of Japanese life. Sex, albeit an innate drive and one which other cultures successfully integrate into core understandings of what it is to be human is here, once the procreative element has been successfully achieved, almost an embarrassing irrelevance.

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