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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

      Large study, press release, media websites: Japanese people having less sex! This has major #publichealth implications! Me, a pleb: But what about all the gay sexpic.twitter.com/hAKRGBZYMY

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

      Seriously, this is ABSURD "There are more virgins in Japan than 2 decades ago but also we didn't measure homosexuality AT ALL"pic.twitter.com/TY8SMzSs2x

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

      Study is here: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-6677-5 …

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

      I mean, even in the study the language is well and truly fucked. They might not be "sexually inexperienced" they might just be fucking people in a way you didn't measurepic.twitter.com/6HGd7XkGax

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

      You can't just design a study that completely ignores any sexual diversity and then claim that this represents a worrying trend that's ridiculous

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          Also, I can't get over this press release THE STUDY DIDN'T MEASURE VIRGINITY BY ANY MODERN DEFINITION OF THE TERM IT JUST LOOKED AT PENIS-VAGINA INTERCOURSEpic.twitter.com/R09JSRrINf

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          I get that you're worried that "heterosexual inexperience is increasing" but maybe all the gays are fine with having less heterosexual sex maybe you could ask them in your giant survey

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          It gets even worse. The study defined people as "experienced" in heterosexual sex if they either a) were married (no same-sex marriage in Japan) or b) were single but said they'd had penis-vagina intercourse

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          So if you look at the total figure there's an increase in heterosexual inexperience. More people who've never banged a person of the opposite genderpic.twitter.com/Eqdg8FYeTl

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          But if you look at only the unmarried group (green line) - the people who are unmarried and saying they'd never done the dirty - it appears that the prevalence of inexperience is going down in women and staying stable in men That's the opposite of the total (red line) figurepic.twitter.com/rAwQ329IdT

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          Here it's worth remembering that this is a self-reported survey - people answering questions on a sheet of paper There are a lot of potential biases here

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        8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          There's usually limited societal issues with reporting that you are/are not married BUT if you AREN'T married there's definitely some stigma associated with having/not having sex

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        9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          The fact that there are two different ways of categorizing "heterosexual experience", and that these are likely to have different social connotations and therefore biases, means that there may not be much of an effect at all anyway

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        10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          Basically, it might just be that 1) people lie about having/not having sex 2) people don't lie as much about being/not being married 3) less people are getting married 4) the reported trend in inexperience is because of this discrepancy

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        11. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Apr 2019

          Also, the study completely ignored asexuality, could be simply that more people are comfortable reporting not having/wanting to have sex in 2016 than in 1992

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