From Julius Wroblewski
Your cover story on the rise of China as an economic and technological power (10 November, p 48) included a sombre article (“It’s raining men”, p 63) dealing with the potentially destabilising effect of China’s evolving glut of males. If China dropped its hostility to homosexuality and allowed gay marriage, millions of gay men could openly arrange their affairs in a way that would relieve some of the country’s sexual pressure.
And what about some changes to the norms of heterosexual relations that would even give the west pause, such as polyandry? The Chinese may have to get very creative along these lines, or face either an explosion of male violence or a mass exodus of virile men to greener pastures.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
