The Tokyo Government Is Launching Its Own Sex App

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The Tokyo Government Is Launching Its Own Sex App

In a world first, the government in Tokyo, Japan, is launching an official dating app to address the country’s flatlining marriage and childbirth rates. The hope is to give a “gentle push” to the nearly “70 percent of people who want to get married” but aren’t “actively joining events or apps to look for a partner,” one government official told Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo’s government isn’t taking matchmaking lightly: The app wil…