Do Indian Women really get Prince Charming of their Dream : Gap between Perception and Behavior of Indian Husbands to the Sexual Rights of their Wives.

The study aims to analyze the gap between perception and actual behavior of Indian husbands about the sexual rights of their wives, using NFHS (2005-06)data. Comparison is done between whole India and the HIV prevalent states, the results showing far narrow gap in the latter. 90 percent of Indian husband has a positive perception about wife sexual rights. However, a wide gap prevails between their perception and behaviors; evident from the figure that about 85-95 percent husbands of the victimized wife uphold a positive perception. Young, poor, Muslims, nonworking and alcoholic men have more propensity to break their own supportive ideals forcing their wives for unwanted sex. In the HIV prevalent states of India, wives experience less unwanted sex supposedly due to their high literacy and empowerment as compared to whole India. Moreover, there is a consistency in the perception and behavior of the husbands in these states.