Love and Sex in India: Why Some Indian Men Can’t Take a Hint

Posted on February 14, 2010, by Hanna Ingber Win, under Culture, India, International, women.

Here’s my GlobalPost article on courting cultural differences in India. Ask just about any foreign woman here about her experiences with Indian men, and she’ll go into a long diatribe about these guys who call and call and call. And call. What some consider flirting, others perceive as harassment or even virtual stalking. Here’s my look at why it happens.

MUMBAI, India — Cristiana Peruzzo, 35, describes herself as a short, slim, relatively plain looking Italian woman. “I like myself,” she says, “but I don’t consider myself a sex bomb.”

She would date in Italy, but she never got a tremendous amount of attention.

Then she moved to Mumbai.

Continue reading here.

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  Hanna is GlobalPost's Breaking News and Social Media Editor. She recently returned to the U.S. after spending two years reporting from Mumbai. Hanna was the founding World Editor of the Huffington Post. Follow her on Twitter and subscribe to her on Facebook.

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