This episode was the best episode ever Marina 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼 Leo is amazing at explaining things and reasoning them. I really enjoyed it. I think that you should definitely invite him again to talk further about the Portuguese culture and differences between people & the accent differences in Lisbon and Porto 😊🇵🇹♥️

@datingbeyondborderscast

6 ай бұрын

Happy you liked it!

The average man worldwide is having a hard time finding love and are more open to potentially finding love elsewhere even if it in a different country

You can't blame Portuguese woman for testing a man's interest and intentions. This is a sign of strength. They know both their worth and what they want. They are ideal mates and partners dedicated to their partners and families. It's refreshing to see women who stand up for themselves unabashedly.

@TitB1199

3 күн бұрын

Depends who the guy is

im portuguese, i call this portuguese woman the "não sou dessas"

Sunshine makes you friendly.

@avneeshluthra5803

4 ай бұрын

arabs would be the most friendly people then

@TitB1199

3 күн бұрын

*looks at murder rates by region* hmmm

@joanaoliveira5811

2 сағат бұрын

​@@avneeshluthra5803Arabs and dangerous.

Generalization is useful, but has always a lot of problems in this kind of things. "It depends" is very true, even in a small country. Different places, different mentalities, even in a small country like Portugal. To me, the "difficulty" of portuguese women should be the default and not the "fast food" mentality in many countries, such as the US, where everything has to be quick and not durable. The ones who really complaint, are the "players" who want "easy girls" who they can convince to like them with less effort.

I am Portuguese. I have 2 sisters, a dozen nieces, and several girl cousins. Big family. Portuguese women don't play hard to get and don't need men to put on a show. They are simply more selective in general. They want to at least get to know the name of the guy they spread their legs to. They don't like lazy lovers, and are usually not into wham, bam, thank you mam. They value men who know how to make a little bit of effort. It's about quality not quantity. It's not about just sex, it's about having self worth and gageing if a guy is decent enough. Listen, I am Portuguese, but I have lived in Sweden and now I live in the USA. I had 2 swedish boyfriends and also dated Finns, Danes, and Americans. I am no prude. But I asked some of them get an STD test before we got intimate and they agreed. I don't know where they have been, and I am not about to compromise my health with a total stranger. I was with a Swede for several years and I married an American. You have to be selective and do your thing, what's right and best for you. My American husband was glad that I wasn't easy. He was pretty used to easy women and I was different. So it can work. Not everyone is the same. Countries where it's common to be promiscuous have higher rates of unwanted pregnancies and STDs. Also, people are not happier and have better relationships just because they are shagging more strangers. It's very simple: do you. Whatever works for you, and you will meet like-minded people who are going to value the same, and if not, no problem. Next. Relationships in Portugal are not more complicated. Portuguese women are friendly and fun, but maybe just not in a hurry to get laid with everyone. They also prefer Portuguese men rather than foreign men, for a variety of reasons, ask them, but foreign men are not out of the question. It depends on what you are looking for.

Madrid is 5 times more than Lisbon and people are still open. It has nothing to do with the size of the city but with the culture of the city.

@cesareborgia8312

4 ай бұрын

Much more. Portuguese are very pessimistic and introvert people. No sexual desire

@rubiwick7264

23 күн бұрын

Dude for sure. People in Porto are way open minded then ppl is lisbon. Girls in lisbon loveeees beta males

i can't imagine that Leo has ever had a difficult time with womem 😅

@lm4122

Ай бұрын

ic what u did there!

I appreciate Leo's intelligence. Mans is smart and looks at all the angles.

Wait....thats very good!!❤

They start att 33:23 the dating scene

I wasn't even subscribed but the algorithms figured I needed to hear this chat 😅 Only 2k Subscribers.... whatever happened to the original channel? 🧐 Insightful chat though 👍

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It seems his perspective was less on why dating is hard, and more on why casual sex is harder depending on the background of the woman. If I’m honest I left this feeling, I’d better stay away from Portuguese guys, if I want something real.

@jeanjacqueslundi3502

3 ай бұрын

Yes because you have no discernment to understand a random portuguese guy on a podcast....is just a random portuguese guy on a podcast. He wasn't democratically elected by us "portuguese people" to be a spokesperson.

11:31 This response is here: _''Why does Portuguese sounds like Russian?''_ kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp2flLRtZtvVkqQ.html

i know of portugal

32:39

Thanks for this episode Marina! I was thinking about the "hard to get" cultures versus the more sexually liberal cultures for one night stands. I guess it has/had to do with the availability of contraceptives. Of course women always have to cary the burden of unsafe sex, in terms of pregancy, so it makes sense that they are more hestistant to have one night stands. I'm from the Netherands and was a teenager in the 90s when it was abolutely no problem to get prescribed "the pill" even as a young teenager. Also the morning-after pill was widely available, as well as condoms of course, so this probably contributed to the way my generation Dutch women look at sex and one night stands. But they always told us girls whenever we went on holiday to more catholic countries (ie. in the south of Europe) to make sure we had enough with us, and to be extra carefull, because those doctors were not willing to prescripe the morning-after pill that easily. Now you can even get in in the pharmacy without precripsion where I live, but I have no clue how other countries do that. And I think that the availability o contraceptives plays a huge role in this. Maybe also how their families shame them, and if abortion is legal or not. Just my 2 cents here.

@redleeks6253

5 ай бұрын

This man here watched 'canal panda' which means he's in his early 30s and birthcontrol and condoms were widely available and could be get at the health center for free. Decriminalization of abortion was granted through a 2007 national referendum ( this guy here was probably a teen back then). The culture hasn't changed because Spain and Italy are also catholic countries and they've always been more 'open minded' about providing men free sexual circles. I know it might be hard for societies where women were raised to believe acting like a man (being promiscuous) gave them more social status and equality, thag being a strong empowered women was pay the bill and give the guy free sex, especially where prostitution is legal and regulated. So portuguese men don't prefer to date foreign women they just prefer to go to foreign women when their goal is to empty their balls but then come back running to portuguese because the german ladies won't wash their underwear and cut their steak as their mommas did. Eventually, if they choose to settle for a foreign woman they will choose similar cultures like Brazilian, Spanish, italian or from even more conservative/traditional roles like Ukraine.

@jeanjacqueslundi3502

3 ай бұрын

Wait what? Availability of contraceptives? In Portugal it's as easy to get as in a place like Norway, I assure you.

@raulmonteiro8765

Ай бұрын

I still remember that not long ago ( when Portugal was preparing the " aborto" referendum a group of Dutch women " WOMEN ON WAVES" came in a boat to "flood" Portugal of abortive pills .... Well the government send the army to stop them and for some weeks they stood at sea in front of my own town--Figueira da when they finally were allowed to land for humanitarian reasons

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Free market? More like corruption is the problem in Portugal.

During the dictatorship, more than 80% of the population was illiterate - the reasoning behind subtitles was to prevent Portuguese people to have access to foreign influence and culture, regardless of passing the scensorship or not. That was the reasoning for all the foreign content being subtitled back in the 70's. That industry was kept in the 80's and 90's, thus, as Leo stated, every piece of media in Portugal is in the original language, and always subtitled.

@pauvermelho

4 ай бұрын

80% really? This is not true at all. Besides it's easier to censership when you dubb than when you subtitle

@ruialmeida818

4 ай бұрын

@@pauvermelho I don't know how old you are, but in the late 60's early 70's, arround 80% of the population was illiterate, yes. And actually there are historical documents stating orders that no foreign documents, or media should be translated to Portuguese, so, yes - that was how they made sure that the foregin influence was contained from the rest of the population. Since there were no resources or anything that resembled a dubbing industry after the dictatorship (think late 70's and 80's) all the media was subtitled.

@pauvermelho

4 ай бұрын

Propably It's the opposite and 80% of the population in 1970 wasn't iliterated. I'm old enougf to know that number that you said it's extremly highly exagerated. You can check for yourself just google it, I already did, I just don't remenber the exact numbers

@ruialmeida818

4 ай бұрын

@@pauvermelho I did also - the official numbers from the census in 1960 is arround 60%, but those numbers tended to be manipulated by the regime. The fact was that only 1 in every 5 children, in rural areas, would go to school. All of my grandparents were illiterate, and my mum only has the second grade. My father was illiterate, as most people from their time. My generation (me and my older brother) were the first ones to finish 9th grade. I ended up going to College already as an adult, after mooving to Porto, in the early 90's. I was born in 72, so when I was 6, we were already in a post dictatorship social situation. That being stated, 80% is not highly exagerated, considering that the propaganda numbers were of 60%.

@pauvermelho

4 ай бұрын

It has nothing to do with Proganda and that number refers to 1950, I'm going to put here the source: "A taxa de literacia subiu, entre 1926 e 1950, de 38.2% para 58.6%. Entre as crianças de 10 a 14 anos, a taxa de analfabetismo diminuiu, entre 1930 e 1950, de 58% para 24% (Candeias, 2004)" Maybe you perceive that way because you came from a place where that happened. But note this: in the 70's most of the population already moved to cities if it was true what you say, 80% of my parents friends/classmates/collegues would be iliterated... and that is very far from reality

Why wouldn't you want to wait a few dates before being intimate? I think thats respectable

But wasn’t Portugal controlled by German Tribes during the fall of Rome between 5th and 8th centuries…?

I have zero desire to move there after all the situation with portugal making illegal changes to the sephardic laws without going the proper channels. I have never been more disgusted and I get there were issues but people were doing things properly and still making things difficult. A lot of people in Portugal speak English from my understanding, its in Spain where a lot of people don't speak English.

@pedrogoncalves2827

6 ай бұрын

What the hell are you talking about? Illegal? The new law was approved by the parliament, so how was it illegal when it went through the expected means and institutions? And it was changed in order to avoid shady situations like the concession of citizenship to Russian oligarchs claiming to be Sephardic Jews of Portuguese descent even though they weren't, like Roman Abramovich. Sephardic jews still keep the fast track to Portuguese nationality, if they can prove their lineage, if they have some knowledge of the language, a recognizable Sephardic surname, if their direct or colateral relatives already hold the nationality, or if they have residency for 3 years (less than the regular 5 years for any other foreigner). The major difference to the last law is that instead of the lineage being confirmed by just some dude from the Porto Synagogue that would grant that if someone paid enough (and because of that he was arrested), from now on there will be a commission with academics and representatives of several jewish communities. As such, frauds will be less common, hopefully. And almost forgot... from now on, it can't be granted if the person filling in for nationality is on the EU or UN sanctions list.

@mariajoaocoelho24

5 ай бұрын

@michelkeg7 no one needs you here. Stay where you are. Thank you!

just call your country spain already

@Bracarensis

6 ай бұрын

Spain is much younger so stfu

@canchero724

6 ай бұрын

Pick up a history book already.

@conanobrian8580

6 ай бұрын

@@canchero724 lol 😂 😂 u and spain are very different due to geographical location.

@pauvermelho

6 ай бұрын

Spain has being trying to do that for 900 years

@movingshapes

Ай бұрын

Don’t offend the Spanish. Spanish women have living souls, unlike the Portuguese women. And Spanish men have balls, unlike the slow, Portuguese beta males with no balls. 😂

Yes 2015 was when Lisbon started to receive more tourists Marina... it depends of the wind, in Algarve if the wind is coming from southeast for more then 1 day the water becames warmer. You should listen to humoristic fado.... well... thinking better maybe not It's the other way... Spain, Italy, France have several internal languages, so they dubb has a unifying element But there was a lobbing for dubbing in Portugal... but that lobby was only sucesseful on cartoons, we are talking in the 90's, people strongly rejected