A few weeks ago, BBC News ran a report on how love hotels were one of the few business sectors in Japan doing well in the current recession. The report stressed the unique trappings of these hotels and actually raised more questions than it answered about their socioeconomic significance.
For one thing, how does increased love-hotel activity jibe with all the recent statistical evidence saying that Japanese couples are having much less sex than they used to?
Maybe the whole "sexless" issue has to do more with perception than with reality. By shining a light on matters previously unscrutinized, surveys and their attendant analyses make them into "problems."