Tongqi (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tongqi is a Chinese language neologism for women who have married gay men. The number of tongqi in Mainland China may be as high as 25 million women. Liu Dalin, among the first sexologists in Mainland China, estimates that 90% of gay Chinese men marry a heterosexual woman, while in the United States, only 15-20% of gay men marry. Sexologist and sociologist Liu Yinhe believes there are 20 million male homosexuals in China, 80% of whom marry a woman. Gay Chinese men are under social pressure to marry and produce a male heir to continue the family line, as Confucianism places a strong emphasis on this.