If you belong to a culture where it is alright to express your emotions in terms of words and gestures, you may find Swedish men rather formal and emotionally distant. Incredibly in popular western culture, this is even attributed to the cold and austere Swedish climate which supposedly makes people unfriendly and humorless. However this is not really a sign of their unresponsive nature but a way of keeping their emotions in control. Swedish men are rather shy of demonstrating how they feel and would much rather keep their emotions to themselves. When dating Swedish guys be prepared for some formality in the beginning. This is only his way of being polite and showing respect to you, which can hardly be said for men of many other cultures who are overly familiar on the very first date and overly eager to get in the woman’s pants