Despite living next to erotic temple art in a land that produced the Kamasutra, the world's oldest sex treatise, it seems Indian women are not interested in sex, a survey by a leading newsmagazine suggests.
And premarital sex? Forget about it. Don't even think of talking about oral sex, the respondents to a weekend survey by India Today said.
Most Indian women are trapped between "propriety and pleasure," the survey of women aged 19 to 50 found.
"For 25 percent of women nationwide sexuality is still a problem area, treating it as they do with inexplicable indifference."
At least 41 percent of women polled said that they did not know or at least would not comment on oral sex.
"Frequent sex doesn't translate into better sex," the poll concluded.
"Only eight percent have sex daily. Masturbation and extramarital sex, associated with guilt across the world by women, have few takers in India," said the poll. A staggering 75 percent of Indian women never masturbated.
Women were interviewed in their homes in 10 cities across the world's second most populous nation by the newsmagazine and AC Nielsen's Org Marg.
As many as 2,305 women were interviewed. The survey report did not specify the margin of error.
It found women in the southern city of Madras were most conservative, while Delhi women were comparatively happy to experiment in bed.
Overall, the survey showed most women still believed in traditional marriages and fidelity, although 67 percent claimed they would "talk and sort it out" if their partner strayed.
Even talking about sex is taboo in parts of India, the magazine found. The poll ran into some trouble in Jaipur, where "some questionnaires were torn and even police complaints registered."
In keeping with the conservative findings, the survey said 64 percent of Indian women did not approve of sex before marriage, which echoes responses to a survey conducted last year by The Week magazine entitled "What Women Want" and another by Outlook magazine.
The Outlook poll said 55 percent of Indian women not only wanted to be virgin brides but that they also wanted their men to be virgins before marriage.
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