China and the gender divide

I found out a little while ago that the ratio of men to women in China as 120:100. Ouch. This happens because if a family has a son first, they stop having children, but if they have a daughter, they will keep having children (and pay for them, or sometimes there are legal exceptions where you can have more than one child if the first is a girl) until they have a son. The guy that sits next to me laughs and tells me how he has two older sisters, but, note, "no younger siblings..." I mentioned that I thought this would change soon, but the other interns disagreed with me, citing the infinite population of rural Chinese.

So anyway, in many ways this makes girls more precious. Or, at least, finding a girlfriend, downright impossible. This leads to situations like the following:
1. A LOT of prostitution. At least one prostitute, and I think several, work my hotel. She left cards under my door when I was in a single room. Now, she calls up, and usually hangs up the phone when a female voice answers. The other night though, she asked me if I wanted a "mah-sahhh-gee" - a meaningful and intentional mispronounciation of massage. Also, she will come knock lightly on the doors one by one late at night. Don't answer that late-night knock. Anyway, I've heard the theory that one of the reasons it is so big in an unexpected place like China is because it's in high demand for a society with so few women. Men just can't go around unsatisfied all the time. I'm not sure that can be totally accurate, but interesting nonetheless...
2. I heard last night about a woman who had planned her wedding and honeymoon, in their entirety, for next year. Doesn't have a boyfriend. She'll go find him now. I guess that she has some time since all of the wedding plans are straight. Compare this to the U.S., where a girl won't buy a dress for the prom before she has a date. Wow.

I think the women in China have a lot of implicit power in their relationships because of this. Much more needy, demanding, and princess-like. But that's only based on some anecdotal evidence...