1. Someone who is just hideous and doesn’t disclose any aspect of his life. 

2. Someone who is inconsiderate of your feelings because what they think is a small thing might not be just a small thing for you after all.

3. Never date someone who overthink everything. Also, makes thing complicated for no reason.

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4. One who doesn’t understand the quote ‘Actions speak louder than words’, doesn’t know how easy it is to be honest in every little things, doesn’t know the meaning of responsibility and most importantly doesn’t like ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ 

5. Never date a control freak.

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6.  Someone who has high opinion of himself/herself, the one who thinks they are right and others as wrong .Being selfish and boasting about themselves is natural but some take it to another level. They dont just have extra self confidence but they also completely ignore others ideas and thoughts.

7. Never date a hard-to-deal narcissistic and a boastful person. Also don’t date somebody who is afraid to unfold their inner emotions and feelings to you.

8. Don’t date or fall in love with Narcissistic and self obsessed person.

9. The crazy one.

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10. Not to date someone who expects you to understand him/her without any sort of communication.

11. The worst one to date is a good person who hasn’t yet moved on from their past or still feel stuck and responsible for their past relationship and partner and cannot establish boundaries with them.

12. If you have to think twice to date someone, never date them.

13.  Someone who hears you but doesn’t listen 

14. Some one with an ego should never be dated…everyone has flaws but the one that doesn’t accept his or her flaws shouldnt be dated.

15. If someone falls head over heels almost at first glance, who commits way too sooner, is into your appearance or any such superficial stuffs, narrow minded and sexist/racist or any such -ist

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16. Person who doesn’t love him/herself.

17. Someone who is always afraid of not being in a relationship. 

18. Who doesn’t rethink, just reloads when presented with an opinion that doesn’t match their own. Also, self-victimizing hypocrites.

19. Fixed mindset

20. Bad attitude

21. Someone who think that they’re always right, superior and refuse to listen to anyone else.

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22. Not committed to oneself or to the relationship, lazy, takes relationship like granted, eccentric, egotistical..

However, forget not:

• There isn’t any checklist when it comes to dating a person. In this world people don’t even know themselves, forget about knowing the others. If you get to “know” (if you happen to) someone that is only possible with time. If we could distinguish the traits and characters so easily based on the traits and character they show, the world would be a great place. Everything is much rooted in our culture. We are taught to be nicer to everyone, which I think is absurd. We should teach everyone to be who they are! Just because you are accustomed to be nicer to everyone, you can’t put a boundary to yourself when you should warn or create firewall against certain people. On the contrary, the person opposite always thinks you are nicer to him/her so he/she can still approach. You should teach everyone a no is a NO, not like in every no there is a hidden Yes. This is all Bollywood nonsense. Girls should be brave enough to say yes to a guy should they find him a good (I wouldn’t say a perfect- it doesn’t exist) match. Not like- ‘lets see how far he can try’. And boys should learn that a No is a NO.. no further ragging and following.
• If only one could distinguish these- Yes and No, everything will be normal. Others traits and characters you will learn with time.
• Cheers!

In order to learn sexual behavior trend among urban Nepalese youth, we had asked Kmag followers to participate in a survey anomalously to answer the following questions:

1.  Their age when they had their first sex
2.  Gender.  Options given were:  Male, female, and others.
3.  District where they had their first sex.
4. We had asked if it was before marriage or after marriage.
5.  If it was a casual sex or while in relationship.

There were 396 respondents participating in the survey, out of which  284 had identified themselves as male,  109 had identified themselves as female, and 3 had identified themselves as Other (LGBTQ).

Background of respondents

Kmag being an English magazine and most followers being from Kathmandu and other major cities within the age bracket of 18-35, respondents can be classified as Urban Nepalese youth with good English proficiency, making them relatively exposed to global trend and modern values.   Thus, this survey may or may not represent the whole Nepalese youth, but can be good hint to gauge the pattern and trend of sexual behavior among Nepalese youth in whole.

Purpose of the survey

Purpose of the survey was to learn the sexual behavior among urban Nepalese youth, basically in terms of:

1.  At what age, they begin to be sexually active.
2. Gender wise sexual behavior.
3. Percentage of premarital sex.
4.  Nature of sexual relationship.

Authenticity of the survey

The survey was conducted online through anonymous form.  There can be a chance of false information being provided.  However, the case should only be marginal.

Data Analysis (WHAT WE FOUND)

Going through the data collected, we have broken down the data to make analysis on following heading

Average age at the time of first sex (Lost Virginity)

Per the report, the age at which respondents claimed to lose their virginity ranged from 13 years old to 30 years old.

In an average, sexually-active urban Nepalese youths had lost their virginity at age 20.36, in which males had lost their virginity at age 20.15 in average, and females at age 20.79 in average.  45% of males and 40% of females were found to have lost their virginity at age between 17-20.   However, data also showed a pattern that quite lot of females lose their virginity in early and mid 20s (35%), whereas males tend to lose their virginity in their late teen.

Teenage sex

181 out of 396 respondents had their first sex in their teenage.  That means 45.7% respondents had their first sex in their teen age.

Breaking it down gender wise:

Male:  47.5% of male respondents had their first sex in their teen age.

Female:  42.2% of female respondents had their first sex in their teen age.

Premarital sex

368 out of 396 respondents had their first sex before marriage, making it 92.92%.

Only 14 females out of 109 had sex after marriage, making 87.16% females with premarital sex.

Likewise,

Only 14 males out of 284 had sex after marriage, making 95.07% males with premarital sex.

Nature of Sex

We had asked if their first sex was casual sex or with someone they were in relationship with.

64.89% had their first sex with someone they were in relationship with.

35.11% had their first sex with someone they were not in relationship and had it as casual sex.

To break it down, gender wise:

116 out of 284 males had their first sex as casual sex (40.84%)

21 out of 109 females had their first sex as casual sex (19.26%)

This pattern says casual sex being usual and normal among youth, especially in their early days of exploring sexual life.

To summarize

1.  Most urban youths from Nepal seem to become sexually active from age 17.
2.  Average age of losing virginity among these youth is 20.38 years old.
3.  Within sexually-active demography, premarital sex holds 92%.
4.  3 in 10 had their first sex in casual bonding and not with someone in relationship.

Recommendation

This online survey may not give the exact picture of sexual behavioral of Nepalese youths in general, but it pretty much can hint us on the sexual behavior pattern and trend among urban Nepalese youths.

40% and more sexually-active youths were active since their teenage.
Likewise, there are 92% sexually-active youths before marriage itself.

In the country like Nepal where sex is still a taboo and neither at home nor in everyday life people openly talk about it, it’s in a way scary that so many youths are sexually active in a sexually-conservative society with no support system in case of pregnancy outside marriage or STDs.   The lack of sex education, awareness, and support system are putting so much of youths in such a vulnerable position that if anything goes wrong, they are forced to deal with it secretly.

For betterment of all, we recommend strong support system for sexually-active youths to reach out for help when in need.  Also, we recommend active sex education and awareness to build a healthy society.

Since you are here, give a read to this as well

World isn’t going to understand you.  World here doesn’t only mean strangers from streets or internet users from different part of the world.  Here, by saying world, I also meant to your own parents, siblings or loved one or children.  That’s the bitter of life.

Yes, even your parents, siblings, loved one or children can’t understand you every time for everything.  Actually, most of the times, if anyone would make our life harder by not understanding us, then it is our very close circle that includes mom, dad, brother/sister, relatives, loved one, children, etc.

There was a time I used to get angry with them for failing to understand me, my wants and desires, my views and concepts. I used to quietly scream inside out “why can’t you guys understand me??!! How nice everything would be if only you guys would understand me!!”

I often hear young people in their late teen or early 20s expressing frustration regarding parents not understanding them, siblings not understanding them, relatives not understanding them….some act out on this frustration and end their life.

And with time, I grew up and understood that an adult life is indeed quite challenging, especially when you are from collective society like Nepal.  This very close circle that includes parents and siblings and relatives and loved ones are my friends in need and at the same time, challenges and hurdles.  But then, it’s a process that would eventually refine me, fine tune me, train me on how to deal and convince, how to negotiate and get things done.  They are like your boxing partners, who you fight with every day, punch and get punched, get beaten up like dog, and you stand up and fight back again — AND YOU MASTER.

That shall prepare you for next level of fight with people that you have no affiliation with, no relation with, no connection with.  That fight will be the real fight which world gonna watch and define your life.

I often hear young people in their late teen or early 20s expressing frustration regarding parents not understanding them, siblings not understanding them, relatives not understanding them….some act out on this frustration and end their life.

Dear youths, if you can’t take pressure from family, who gave birth to you, who brought you up, who loves you and wants you, how will you take pressure from boss who will not care much about what matters to you, how will you take pressure of employees who will not care much about your business, your customers; how will you take pressure from those tax officers, and many more??

So ya, ideally speaking, it’s always nice to be surrounded by people who understand you but world in real is not so ideal.  In most cases, you can’t change your parents, you can’t change your relatives, you can’t change your neighbors.  So if they are tough, your option is
1.  Run away from them.
2.  Kill yourself.
3.  Learn to coexist in win-win setup.

World is never for people who don’t know to co-work, co-ordinate, and co-exist.  The test starts at home. Don’t hate the test. That’s how life is.  Embrace it.