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“Sex and sexuality form an integral part of an individual’s social and cultural identity, especially as an expression within the Western world. As a social construct that is part of the modern world, it is heavily influenced by the social changes that accompany modernity. These influences have changed the way in which sex is valued throughout time, altering sexual behaviours and attitudes both in the macro and micro worlds…
Though many researchers have suggested a recent decline in sexual activity, attitudes in the micro world were found to be conflicting with such theories. The emergence of the declination trends of apathy, abstinence and asexuality are not changes in sexual behaviour, but changes in the ways we view sex…It is simply that those who resist the pressure to have sex are becoming more worthy of note as they deviate from societal norms…
Like Australia and other Western countries, Japan is undergoing great social change especially in relation to gender and sexuality, with the increasing awareness of gender equality. As the origins of the two cultures are very different, with Japan still maintaining some of its traditional cultural heritage, the extent and manifestation of modernity in the two cultures is different, causing discrepancies in the construction of sexual identity…Through the case study of Japanese culture I was able to make comparisons between modernity in the Western world and in Japan, and how they influence individual sexual identity.”
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