Sex experts are urging Hong Kongers to strip off their reputation as some of the least active lovers in Asia to get more out of their sex lives and overcome challenges of privacy in a cramped city.
'People say Hong Kongers have the least amount of sexual knowledge in the world. One of the reasons is they have no place to have sex,' said professor Emil Ng, associate director at the Family Institute of the University of Hong Kong.
Financial pressure, career-driven mentalities and limited space are seen as key drivers of a fertility rate that is one of the lowest in the world by some measures, with an average 1.04 births per woman according to the World Bank. Singapore's births came in slightly higher at 1.2, according to the same statistics.
Prof Ng, who believes monogamy in general is 'behind the times', thinks another factor driving Hong Kong's sexual timidity is sky-high property prices. Younger Hong Kong residents typically live at home deep into their 20s or 30s because they can't afford to marry and move out earlier, meaning that many sleep in close proximity to their parents in cramped apartments.
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I've seen that fertility rate in Hong Kong was under 1.00.
But, they don't have to worry about decreasing population in Hong Kong. It is because Chinese who have high academic careers or are the rich still emigrate to Hong Kong.
I wonder whether Hong Kong has a hotel which is used for having sexual intercourses, so to speak "Love hotel" in Japan. If lack of places to do it is a cause of low fertility rate in Hong Kong, it'll be a solution to build such hotels.
