Population control problem

So how about a change of gears. Instead of my ranting about things that annoy me, how about some meaningful thought...yeah, I know, it's going to end the streak of comments but I think this is interesting.

So we all know that there has been a policy in place in China. It was a really smart idea, keep the family sizes manageable in order to curtail population growth. And it worked, they only have a population of just over over 1.3 billion people, a little over 39 times the population of Canada. But there is one little thing that I don't think anyone really thought about; the Chinese desire to have a male child. Of course once that came out there was the obvious problem, with aborted and abandoned female infants. But what about when everyone grows up? What happens when there are way more men than women?

As it stands, we are in the third generation of this program. Now one would have thought that the people would have noticed a problem with selecting for males only might not be a good idea. But the current birth rate is at 117 males for every 100 females, the highest difference to date. In fact if you look at the CIA's world factbook (it can't be good to link to them can it?) you can see that there are almost 30 million more males than females between the age of 15 and 64...that's almost the population of Canada!

So what happens when there are that many men, who I would imagine, don't have a lot of opportunities to take care of their sexual urges? Well, for some reason, and please don't ask, I have been thinking of this, and here's what I think may happen:

1) Massive homosexuality - well, that's if you go by the religious conservatives ideas that homosexuality is a choice. With 30 million men who may never have sex any other way you would think that the male sex drive would lead them to being gay, if it was a choice. So maybe those people who think it's a choice should look at China and see if their ideas are right.

2) Even more computer nerds - after all, it's the natural domain of the eternal virgin. Of course this will lead to more cyber-sex, likely to be had with NASCAR/gun enthusiasts who pose as teenage girls on-line to further hide their homosexuality from themselves. I'm also betting that there will be some great technological advances in the area of sex-dolls.

3) Profitable prostitution - This is probably quite likely. I mean here's a client base of 30 million people I'm sure that there is likely to be some kind of market to import women to provide services. Somehow I envision a company like McDonald's jumping all over this.

4) China goes to war - This is the problem I worry about. With this many men with pent up sexual frustration there is likely to be a lot of tension in the country. The government would be wise to send the men to war, get them out of the country, where they can work out their anger. Unfortunately this will of course involve much rape and pillaging, more than a normal war.

Of course I could be completely off base on this idea. But I really do wonder what will happen if the ratio of the sexes in countries that are adopting policies like China's without thinking about he consequences. Either way, China is going to be an interesting country to watch in the next few decades.