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Women have generally been unhappy with the ogling behaviour of their partners or spouses terming it as leching. However, contrary to the general perception ogling has an important role to play in human relationship and mating behaviour.

Study has revealed that fixed eye contact will elicits any of the two responses, approach or retreat. Whenever there is an eye contact between a male and female they convey their response based on which a relationship starts.

Ogling was not always considered bad, it found itself in bad books with the rise of gender wars and feminism. Infact some women not only perceive it as “crude" or “unsophisticated", but also consider it as unwanted sexual attention. They consider ogling behaviour as a type of sexual bullying in which men try to establish their supremacy by making women objects instead of the person they are.

Although ogling is perceived negatively, its utility cannot be underestimated. Men and women would have been solitary creatures if men were not programmed to look at women, and approach them to start a relationship.

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(AW: Pratima Tigga)