Marriage and Fertility Issues: Ethical Dilemma Faced by Gay with HIV/AIDS in the Context of Chinese Culture

Abstract

infection rate in MSM from 2005 to 2014 has reached 7.7% which has increased 5.5 times. MSM rate accounted for newly diagnosed HIV has increased from 3.4% to 25.8% [6]. In Chinese traditional culture, homosexuality is always being considered as abnormal sex behavior which violates the natural and human evolution regulations. Most people still appose to homosexuality and they think it is a kind of disease called sexual deviation or variation. Even there is mutual love between homosexuals, and they have to maintain sneaky, shady, and secret love. Many homosexuals try to conceal this situation by marrying members of the opposite sex aims at covering for them, continuing family generation and keeping accordance with social traditions. Many homosexuals dislike this form, but they have no choice which led to their marriage in name only. For the homosexuals, heterosexual spouses just became nominal and tools of having children [7]. Gay men suffer dual pressures of HIV infection and not accepted by social, and they have to face social difficulties, personality difficulties, emotional difficulties as well as marriage difficulties. Except for that, they have to deal with dilemma of responsibility and love while married men are despised among homosexuals. Another major problem in the emotional difficulties is the pressure from heterosexual marriage. Since there is no basis of love, the heterosexual marriages of homosexuals are definitely unhappy because they can not