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One of my favorite Star Trek fan fiction writers, StarTrekFanWriter, has written an excellent piece on the idea that after Vulcan was destroyed, there was an excess of male Vulcans and not enough females to bond with them. I just read an article reporting that China is having this very same problem.
Due to the "one child only" policy in China, designed to keep the population from exploding, and the preference for male children (and resulting sex-specific abortions), the gender balance is crazily out of whack there. Many men are unable to get married, or get married very late in life. If they don't marry, they don't have kids, and no one will be there to care for them as they age. And apparently, the imbalance creates an increase of abductions and trafficking of women in areas with especially high male-female ratios.
...not exactly Pon Farr, but very interesting how a gender imbalance can turn a society upside-down. In fan fiction, there are a lot of stories of Vulcans venturing out to marry outside their species. ..Will Chinese men consider looking outside of China for wives? Will single women go to China, like in the plot of the show "Men in Trees," where a woman moves to Alaska because of the high male-female ratio in that state? Who knows?
Due to the "one child only" policy in China, designed to keep the population from exploding, and the preference for male children (and resulting sex-specific abortions), the gender balance is crazily out of whack there. Many men are unable to get married, or get married very late in life. If they don't marry, they don't have kids, and no one will be there to care for them as they age. And apparently, the imbalance creates an increase of abductions and trafficking of women in areas with especially high male-female ratios.
...not exactly Pon Farr, but very interesting how a gender imbalance can turn a society upside-down. In fan fiction, there are a lot of stories of Vulcans venturing out to marry outside their species. ..Will Chinese men consider looking outside of China for wives? Will single women go to China, like in the plot of the show "Men in Trees," where a woman moves to Alaska because of the high male-female ratio in that state? Who knows?
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I took note of that article too! It was an issue I had discussed a few years ago with a Chinese student when I was last at uni. She told me a lot about the different family dynamics arising out of the one-child policy. Fascinating stuff, and a little worrying too.