Q: Will my boyfriend turn violent like his father was? He tells me he saw his father beating his mother throughout his childhood. I’m scared that someday he might turn into the kind of abusive person his father was. Help me Auntyji. Radha, Pune
Eve teasing is South Asia’s euphemism for mauling hands and foul-mouthed comments. Almost every woman experiences it. And hates it. So what makes guys do it? We asked two Indian men for their take on the street sexual harassment plague.
Indian men are the biggest ‘machos’, in everything from sex to housework. Eighty-six percent think changing diapers is strictly for women. More worryingly, nearly a quarter confess to committing sexual violence, like forcing a partner to have sex.
"He sat me down on his lap. My mind went blank. Even at age eight with no experience of anything sexual I knew I had to get away and fast.” Pranaadhika Sinha Devburman says life was cruising along until she was sexually abused by her caretaker.
Every single girl I talked to had been groped, fondled, or pinched sometime or the other. When I asked my girlfriends if they’d ever had an experience with someone ‘copping a feel’, the memories came flooding out .
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