Lysistrata and China

Well, I just finished Lysistrata. I find it interesting that the subject of sex (or withholding of sex) which is humorously explored in Aristophanes' play related to an article I read on MSN.com just the other week. The article was about the future of China. It made the claim that China is soon to be on the verge of a crisis due to the lack of female population. As most of you are probably aware, China has a strict rule of only allowing one child per couple in an attempt to control the massive population. Many Chinese couples prefer to have a male child (to preserve their name maybe??) and have an abortion of their child is a female. Apparently, as this article argued, in the future this will cause them a major problem as the male population will become very frustrated and unproductive due to the the lack of females. So after finishing Lysistra I immediately made the connection between this play and the effects that the lack of sex can have on society.