Throughout China's history homosexuality has been tolerated but in the twentieth century this dramatically changed to a more conservative culture. But the proposition that homosexuality was completely tolerated in traditional china must be qualified by the arguments that a more conservative shift had already begun to occur in the Qing dynasty, that the submissive homosexual partner was not accepted and that men were forced to be bisexual in order to procreate. Since China's early dynasties …showed first 75 words of 981 total…

…showed last 75 words of 981 total…be considered important in comparison. However, class differences must be considered as little evidence exists about traditional treatment of homosexuality among the lower classes. In this regard, we can see some evidence that traditionally there may have been more intolerance of it among the lower classes as lower class men might have been subjected to play the part of the passive male and may have lacked the economic freedom to engage in non-child bearing relationships.