so slate dot com ided is really interesting piece on other think marriage market in china
so what is the fake marriage market
while currently eighty eight percent of the gay population in china get married two straight
people
and the reason why they do that is because they feel this tremendous sense of pressure
to get married
make their parents happy and have children right so they happen to have these secret
meetings throughout china specifically in shanghai where uh... gays and lesbians get
together in you know our yoga studio and they basically make a deal with one another like
hey you want to get married all right fine let's get married here the terms and conditions
okay so obviously article talks about one couple they get gets married
and out the lesbian basically says
look out get married in everything just to make my parents happy but absolutely no sex
absolutely no children
and you know she'll find at again guy there who will be willing to marry her under those
terms and conditions
and of course it it has nothing to do
with having a real relationship it's a fake marriage
just set and convince people that they're straight
and be make their parents happy so their parents aren't constantly telling them you need to
get married you need to get married it's an incredible story
and another thing that i found out from this article is that they are alright nasty mated
thirty to forty
million gay people living in china
yet you know that this is a huge number of course when you think that china's one point
three billion people
not that surprising
rather at the same time still brenda forty million gejdenson and grapples
that's an army right there that's it
fascinating d chinese army
they you know what they need to realize how big they are so they can tell the rest of
china
it's ok word a
workwear
we're here
they used to it birthday so they stop with these nonsense fake marriages right here because
is that right
the you know some people are really a taken advantage as some people in a married
you know
guys or or grocery bill if you don't take their money or do fraud that area and take
advantage of the situation with the lesbian girls eva sorry no sex but maybe massages
you know i'm saying is going to be trouble so i don't do it
yeah but you know you make a good point their tank but another thing that's really interesting
about this is
the people who attend these meetings and take part in the state marriages see themselves
as uh... a transitional generation and when i mean by that
back in the day you could even have meetings like this okay you can obviously could not
come out to your parents but you also could not come out to your peers and they see themselves
as a transitional generation because they can come out to their peers at this point
right they're being open and honest about what their sexuality is they just have to
hide it from their parents so allot of the people that were interviewed for this piece
said lucky you know it are circumspect
circumstances sock
they believe that the country is gonna progress to the point where you know give relationships
are going to be more accepted and you know maybe ill get to a point soon are not soon
but maybe in a couple decades
we're gay marriage will also be accepted
so i want to read you guys uh... a quote from the article that just blew my mind and everybody
who attends these meetings is identified by a number so they don't
they don't share their names and identities uh... but
this one person by uh... that's identified as number fifteen told the slate reporter
i want to get married for my parents but i think a lot of them will make me feel terrible
so i want to have a fake marriage was a lesbian girl
but just for one or two years and then i want a divorce to show my parents that i am not
the marriage tight
that's incredible
is that the other side izzy unit
uh... and you should have to go through all that but i know why they are don't get me
wrong i'm not judge them
limit and they're definitely right they are transitional generation
and eventually
uh... like although the cultural as the chinese will realize
the serb resided in the population
is gay or lesbian and
pity your kids and there's nothing wrong with that ability peacetime and and unfortunately
uh... you know gay people across the world do whatever they have to do to survive and
to get along in their different societies
until they can live
open healthy honest lives