"The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration"
This article explores, or rather pokes fun at, a potential consequence of female infanticide sex-selective abortion in Asia: Asia's Hormonic Convergence*. Here's the scenario in a nutshell: "Asia has too many boys. They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead."

Here's how the problem came about:

The problem began 20 years ago, when ultrasound technology gave Asian women a cheap way to determine the sex of their unborn babies, writes Martin Walker, editor of United Press International. In China and other Asian nations, millions of women chose to abort female fetuses so they could instead give birth to boys. Consequently, those countries will soon have millions more men than women.

The result, says Walker, will be "mass sexual frustration." By 2020, he writes, China alone could have "40 million frustrated bachelors."

There is historical precedent:

Back in the 19th century, famine caused a rash of female infanticide in northern China, Walker writes, citing the work of Valerie Hudson, a Brigham Young University scholar. The result was unmarried guys forming "bandit gangs" and running amok in what came to be known as the Nien Rebellion.

This problem is not new and it also exists in Korea. We discussed the male-female imbalance in one of my first classes in Korea back in the 20th Century. When we started to talk about solutions, a rather grim 30-year-old bachelor stated bleakly, "We must have a war."

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