Sexual frustration I
Washington Monthly, May, 2006 by Charles Peters
In case you missed it, the April issue of Foreign Policy magazine has an article entitled "The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration." If this strikes you as a bit frivolous for a publication where one would expect to encounter "The World Economy Today" and "Whither NATO?", consider the article's subtitle: "Asia has too many boys.
They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead." Because of ultrasound examinations, many Asian women--most notably in China but also in South Korea, Taiwan, Bangladesh, and India--now learn the sex of their gestating infant in advance, and many are choosing to terminate female fetuses.
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