India – Most Indian Men Want Virgin Brides – Survey
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: October 30, 2006
Mon Nov 6, 8:17 AM ET
NEW DELHI (Reuters) Nearly two-thirds of young Indian men expect the woman
they marry to be a virgin, but nearly half have had sex with prostitutes,
according to a poll.
The survey of more than 2,500 men aged between 16 and 25 conducted by India
Today Magazine across 11 cities found that 49 percent claimed to have had sex
with a sex worker while 37 percent said they had had a homosexual
experience.
But 63 percent of young men in conservative India said they expected the
women they married to be a virgin.
The average age of their first sexual encounter appears to be falling — to
18 years from 23 in a similar survey two years ago, but condom use is on the
rise, the report said. More than half of the men surveyed said they always used
a condom.
Fourteen percent of those surveyed said they had had sex with a member of
their own family.
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