
Sixty-two percent of female university students in Japan have had sex, up 10 percentage points from six years ago to reach the same level as the percentage of their male peers, according to a nationwide survey released Saturday. The survey, taken by the Japanese Association for Sex Education, found the experience gap between females and males among high school students was also shrinking. The Tokyo-based association carries out this kind of survey about every six years to investigate sexual behaviors of young Japanese...The survey found 30 percent of high school girls were not virgins, up 6 points from the previous survey, but the percentage for high school boys was the same as before at 27 percent. The association said it has not yet fully analyzed the results of the survey, but the outcome indicates that girls are taking a lead in a lowering trend in the age of having first sexual experiences...Female students probably have more opportunities to meet members of the opposite sex than before as they tend to use new communication channels, such as e-mails via mobile phones, more often than male students do, the association said....more...