{"id":2242,"date":"2013-11-25T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:52:38","slug":"advice-on-dating-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/advice-on-dating-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"More Advice on Dating in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
A while back I wrote an article about dating in Italy, and not surprisingly, it was one of my most popular posts. As a result, Google now sends such inquires as \u201cHow to pick-up Italian girls\u201d to my site.<\/p>\n
Further investigation into my site’s statistics suggests that I have a disproportionate number of male readers in Italy who are keen to make the acquaintance of eligible women from the former Soviet Union. Not wanting to disappoint the king of all search engines, I feel obliged to follow up.<\/p>\n
But writing about this topic is tricky for several reasons. One reason is that the protocols are changing so fast in this increasingly globalized, interconnected world. The traditional roles that were standard only a generation ago are already grossly inaccurate when applied to present-day Italy.<\/p>\n
For example, Jessica recounts childhood stories that she heard from the old women in her Sicilian hometown who spoke openly about their husbands\u2019 extra-marital affairs. For them, there was a certain virtuous pride in not being asked to perform the \u201cdirty work\u201d of pleasing their own husbands. What\u2019s more, a woman might have even bragged that her<\/i> husband had the most beautiful mistresses in town, as if that somehow reflected positively back on her.<\/p>\n