- NEW DELHI (Reuters) - You're
a tall, dark, handsome hunk with a bulging wallet. And you think women
fancy you.
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- If you're in India, think again.
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- Indian women are looking for a man who understands women,
is honest and responsible and doesn't drink too much.
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- It would also help if you can treat women as equals,
are intelligent, faithful, a homemaker and a good father, don't have a
violent temper and don't talk loosely about women.
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- Oh, and you must be good in bed. The long wish list is
the outcome of a survey aiming to find out what Indian women want in a
man.
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- The survey, conducted by the Center for Forecasting and
Research for the weekly magazine Outlook, covered 2,150 women across 10
cities, Outlook said in its issue which hit the stands Sunday.
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- "It wasn't money, property, career prospects, or
even looks and a good body that mattered the most," Outlook said.
"He had to listen to her, treat her as an equal and be honest to be
in her good books."
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- The magazine said the respondents, who ranged from teenagers
to women over 40, were asked to rate on a 10-point scale the attributes
they loved or loathed in men.
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- "Alcoholics were the most despised across all age
groups, regions and occupations," Outlook said.
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- "Good sex was almost unanimously considered important
for a good relationship."
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- Seventy-five percent of the surveyed women said good
sex was very important, although 51 percent of them said their man should
be totally inexperienced in bed.
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- "Intriguingly, while women expressed a desire for
sex, even taking the initiative sexually (43 percent), as many as 55 percent
of the respondents thought that men should be virgins when they marry,"
Outlook said.
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