There are definitely things about this book that went over my head because I'm not that well informed about Japanese culture. However, I can see how their declining birth rates and the value they place on conformity shaped the story. Coming at it with a more American point of view, I can't help but think about, what feels like to me, the increasing puritan view that younger people online seem to take. I couldn't stop thinking about what a world would be like if these increasingly censored thoughts about sex were allowed to shape the future and just how far they would go to create true "purity". 

Overall I didn't hate this, but it lacked the charm of Convenience Store Woman (the only other Murata work I've read so far). I wish it was even shorter than it was, if just to avoid how repetitive it began to sound. One last note to add: with the way that sex is covered throughout this whole book was that ending really a surprise at all?