YOUTH SURVEY 2017

PART FIVE: CONSERVATIVE AND CONVENTIONAL

Live-in relationships and inter-caste marriages are frowned upon by the youth

72%

don’t approve of sex before marriage

63%

are against inter-caste marriages

More (44.1%) women want (46%)their life than partnermen to be chosen by their parents. Women (68.4%) are also more keen to have religious rituals at their weddings than men (66.4%).

Interestingly, more women (14.9%) seem to think there is nothing wrong in watching pornography than men (13.9%). They are at 14.5%, however, not as eager to use sex toys as against 16.1% men. Most women (73.5%) are against premarital sex as against 70.6% men. Sixty three per cent are, however, likely to be less judgmental than 58.1% men when they see a boy and girl together at a restaurant and see them as “just friends”. As for children, even though 69% Indian youth disagree that a couple should have at least one male child, more men (31%) than women (30%) want boys. Then there’s religious bias, with 53% women saying they do not have good friends belonging to other communities as compared to 50.5% men. Men at37.3% are, however, more open to inter-caste marriage than 36.5% women . About 60.9% women also don’t like the idea of men assisting them in the kitchen.

Women also appear to be more conservative with only 21.6% saying they don’t mind being in a live-in relationship as compared to 24.5% men.

Even when it comes to affairs of the heart, 73.5% women, as against 70.6% men, disapprove of premarital sex even if the couples in question profess to be in love.

Women are also, at 56.1%, less likely than 58.1% men to have good friends from the opposite sex .

Both men and women seem to be on the same page, however, when it comes to drinking age, with more than 78% of the opinion that should be the same as the voting age.