Conversations on consent difficult for young Indians: Tinder survey

More than 65 per cent of those surveyed do not know how to give consent, how to ask for it or how to withdraw it when dating someone.

Most young adults in India have little to no confidence in navigating consent and find it hard to have conversations on the subject, revealed a recent survey by dating app Tinder. Amongst those surveyed in Mumbai, 65 per cent chose not to speak to their date/partner when their consent was violated.

Tinder, along with YouGov, conducted a perception survey of 1,018 Indian young adults (ages 18 to 30) across Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad.

“Younger adults are perhaps the only generation that has dated exclusively or for the majority of their dating lives in a technology and platform enabled