One graph in the article is interesting:
Posted on 08/15/2018 11:16:26 AM PDT by C19fan
If you haven’t watched “Nanette,” Hannah Gadsby’s fearless comedy special on Netflix, do that now. (We’ll wait.)
In it, Ms. Gadsby takes on the fragility of masculinity — and at one point drills into Pablo Picasso, who, well into his 40s, had an affair with a teenage girl.
Ms. Gadsby, who has a degree in art history, recounted how Picasso justified the relationship by claiming that he and the girl, Marie-Thérèse Walter, were both in their prime. Seething, Ms. Gadsby said: “A 17-year-old girl is never in her prime. Ever! I am in my prime.” She is 40.
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Best analogies I’ve read in decades!
One graph in the article is interesting:
Okay, this is definitely the Best BOL of today:
Back when Slick Willy got caught using Monica Lewinsky to relieve his urges in the Oval Office, Congressman Dick Armey was asked what he would do if he were in Clinton’s position. His response:
“If I were, I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife say: ‘How do I reload this thing?’”
I’ve always found women within a particular age range - about a decade - to be most attractive. When I was young, it was cougar hunting. Now, the same age range would be cradle robbing. Life is short.
As far as libido and being interested in sex, the research I've seen agrees with you.
LOL! Sort of a universal, unstated contract.
What you say is largely true, but it is my belief that most men are visually hardwired to a degree.
I think you are true on both counts, especially the way you worded it...
No kidding! Why didn’t they knock on MY door and ask ME about it!
The NYT really doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Women peak somewhere between 28-32.
I have trusted female friends in this age group.
They NOW understand what it is like to be a guy at 18.
We have a similar experience.
I dated older women up in to my 30s and then it reversed.
The last Confederate war widow receiving a pension died in 2004. She married at 21 to an 81 year old Confederate veteran and they produced a son together.
Strom Thurmond, eat your heart out!
agreed. This situation is unusual and deserves anthropological study. Study of an up close, personal and detailed nature. In a professional sense a town name could be helpful.
When I was single at 43, I started with the 35-39 age bracket - which was horrendous, and worked my way down.
When I was 46 I married a 28 year old woman, this month is our 22nd anniversary, we have 5 kids, and life is sweet.
I will never forget how many women I met who introduced themselves with, "I'm READY!!!", followed quickly by, "How much do you make?" No, I'm not kidding.
That’s pretty good for 81 considering they didn’t have Viagara back then.
Much as I would like to believe it, I highly doubt men peak in their attractiveness to women at 50. I’d guess its more like their late 20’s through mid 30’s when men are most attractive to women.
For women, their peak attractiveness is early through mid 20s.
In my late 20’s I Dated a Woman in her early 40’s.
Nobody before or after even came close.
(no need to pardon the pun) #;^)
As a man in my mid-50s, there is no way in H@ll, I would date an 18 year old girl. Even if one were attracted to me (highly improbable), I would feel downright silly being out on the town with her. However, I think the old formula, that a man should date a woman half his age + 7 years, works pretty well.
I think it’s more like, at 50 you have more women around your own age interested in dating you than you did earlier in life, because women’s options have radically declined.
Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
Here's the graph:
Notable observations:
For women, age is strongly correlated with desirability.
Level of education has a big effect on men's desirability (possibly correlating with income), while having a post-grad degree for a woman makes her less desirable than a woman with just a college degree (possibly having to do with post-grad women being older, and possibly having a higher sense of entitlement).
Black women and Asian men are low in desirability.
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