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Yesterday, Chinese parents called for their government to legalize same-sex marriage when it meets next week. There is pretty much no chance of that happening; homosexuality itself was illegal in China untiland was categorized as a mental illness as recently as China has tens of millions more men of marriageable age than there are women.

China also has a long history of social unrest pdf, p. If gay marriage were legalized, a significant proportion of the marriages between straight women and gay men could end, allowing gay men to marry other gay men and returning millions of straight women to the dating pool.

Obviously there are many caveats to this back-of-the-envelope exercise. For one, there are surely many lesbians married to bare men; women marrying women would actually make the bare branches problem gay, not better. And the social shift necessary for gay marriage to become mainstream would be considerable. But China could totally do this.

The government has tremendous administrative authority, as demonstrated by the One Child husband that indirectly cause this problem in the first place. And the presence of organized religion in mainland Chinese society paywall —particularly any with explicit bans on homosexuality—is slight.

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