這篇文章上傳的時間為2011年7月18日,也是部落格第一篇非NPR廣播的文章。部落格啟動的日期應該是2011年的五月。 TIME Magazine Monday, Jul. 04, 2011 It's a Boy By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Largely as a result of sex-selective abortions 選擇性別墮胎 , Asia today is short of 160 million women. They have disappeared silently over several decades, but their absence can be seen in classrooms filled with boys, in huddles of 一推 bachelors on city streets and in higher rates of bride trafficking 新娘販售 and prostitution elicited by 召妓 growing numbers of sexually frustrated men. 性需求不能得到滿足的男人 Researchers often speak of Asia 's missing women as a consequence of a traditional favoring of sons. Beijing-based science journalist Mara Hvistendahl acknowledges this in her groundbreaking 開創性的 new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men , but argues that the imbalance is "an outgrowth of economic progress, not backward traditions." Countries like India and China, v