Article here.
"What the study measured, in particular, was how many women initiate contact with men. The site analyzed 90 million contacts between women and men in the different countries below to arrive at the final rankings."
""This study focused on who makes the first move," Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing told Lemondrop. "What it shows is simply that American women are less likely than those in most other countries -- and much less likely than Spanish and most Latin women -- to be the one initiating something online with a man."
The author of this article suggests that the reason U.S. women are like this is because of notions of puritanical virtue. I think it has more to do with fear. There seems to be a general culture of fear in the U.S., specifically a fear of each other. Every man a woman sees on the street is a potential psycho. Every man or woman a parent sees is a potential child molester. The list goes on and on. I've noticed in particular that in L.A. when women are out and about, if they are alone, they are either talking on their smartphones, texting, reading - anything to be taken out of their present environment so they don't have to engage. It is very difficult to make any kind of connections with strangers these days.
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