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What do you think of men who do this?

At work we have this trash collector. He's a young guy of 20 or 22.

He frequently lowers his gaze when he talks to women. Like he never looks you in the eye. Just the 1st glance then he looks down/away.

He's a religious muslim and in Islam that's part of the teachings. It's called غض البصر. Don't stare so you don't get turned on.

But it's an obsolete one nowadays and most don't do it anyway.

Some women get offended by the extreme lack of eye contact. Some are trying to mock & tease him.

As a whole we kinda find it funny & out of place bc he's overdoing it. With the guys his eye contact is just fine.

But – personally I kinda feel bad for him and think it's cute. He's very polite and sort of shy otherwise. I told my female coworkers to leave him tf alone.
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You're very kind but it's sad that he's so sexually repressed that he's afraid of even acknowledging to himself that a woman is attractive.. sexual tension is going to stunt his emotional growth
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I think you're right.
Guys like him must be waiting for marriage but I wonder how they will learn the basics to handle their future wife.
@Onestarlitnight
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He probably will never learn the basics and basic is all his relationship will ever be.
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@SW-User Basics to handle a wife? I'm thinking he's probably one of the lucky ones and so will his wife be... they can grow and learn with each other. It's a concept the world at large has forgotten.
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I didn't say it ain't possible. I said I wonder *how* when someone has such minimal exposure to the opposite sex. @SW-User