Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China

An emerging social issue engrossing research involves heterosexual wives of homosexual/bisexual men (tongqi in Chinese). These wives often marry without knowing their husbands’ homosexuality. When realizing their husbands’ HIV or sexually transmitted infection, the wives are likely to substitute for their husbands by remarrying. Meanwhile, homosexual husbands are likely to substitute for their remarrying wives and contract HIV or sexually transmitted infection. To substantiate these likelihoods, a survey of 39 tongqi provided event history data to investigate relationships between the husband’s infection and the wife’s remarrying. Results supported the hypotheses that the wife’s knowing her husband’s HIV or sexually transmitted infection predominantly predicted her remarrying, and the wife’s remarrying predicted her knowing her husband’s HIV or sexually transmitted infection. These results imply assisting the remarrying of the wife of the man with HIV or sexually transmitted infection and preventing the man’s sexually transmitted infection after his wife’s remarriage. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.