How to engender respect in men toward women

Joe Zobenica, in an article entitled Are We Not Men? in the Jan/Feb 2007 edition of Atlantic magazine quotes Nelson Algren who wrote the following, back in 1963, regarding his visit to the Playboy mansion,

However paradoxical it may appear, the young male who assumes early that physical relationships with women are part of life is more likely to develop respect toward women than is the young male who abstains from such relationships.

How relevant is this in the Indian context?