Posted on 08/28/2007 7:26:47 PM PDT by blam
Men have evolved to choose young wives
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 29/08/2007
There is a 25 year age gap between Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas
Men have evolved to seek wives and girlfriends who are younger than they are to maximise their chances of reproducing, researchers have found.
Couples are most likely to have a greater number of children if the man is about six years older.
A team from Vienna University studied more than 11,600 Swedish men and women, aged 45-55, and their partners and found that relationships in which the man was six years older than the woman produced the most children - an average of 2.2.
Women placed more emphasis on resources and status - leading them typically to choose older men.
Martin Fieder, who led the team and whose research was published online by the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, said: "These findings may account for the phenomenon that men typically prefer and mate with women younger than themselves, whereas women usually desire and mate with men older than themselves.
"We conclude that the age preference for the partner increases individual fitness of both men and women and may thus be an evolutionarily acquired trait."
When the team examined those who had changed partners after the birth of their first child they found men ended up with women younger than their first choice, while women chose men who were younger than their first partner but still a little older than themselves.
Mr Fieder said: "These findings support the reported age preferences of ageing men for increasingly younger women as well as of women for a partner just a little older than themselves.
"We attribute the shift to a younger partner to a potential compensation for the fertility loss caused by the individuals' increasing age."
Bless you sir.
All better now?
Yes, that’s because no one likes an Old Wives Tail.
to post clever reply!
There is something sexual here but I can’t seem to put my finger on it.
So to make up for that, Woody did Mia’s daughter.
beat you by three posts. and mine’s bigger!
Yeah, I'm single. ;-)
You could have really gone places with that 2nd line....
I also have this other rod, old, a bit tattered. It is not quite as pretty as it was on my 16th birthday....
It’s not as good as it once was, but it’s as good once as it ever was....
Logical and probably accurate. Opening myself up for a flame, I would also point out that a man is more likely to get more sex for a few more years from a younger woman. Shallow of me to bring that up.
I'm not convinced that men are looking so much for women with better equipment as they are for ones that are simply still willing to use it.
Thank you. Kind words are always appreciated!
> > Unfaithful Husband
The wife came home early and found her husband in their bedroom
>> > making love with a strange woman. The wife became immediately upset.
>> > “You are a disrespectful pig!” she cried. “How dare you do this to me
>>
>> > a faithful wife, the mother of your children! I’m leaving you.
>> >
>> > I want a divorce right away!”
>> >
>> > The husband replied “Hang on just a minute Love, so at least I can
>> >
>> > tell you what happened.”
>> >
>> > “Fine, go ahead,” she sobbed, “ but they’ll be the last words you’ll
>> > say to me!”
>> >
>> > So, the husband began — “Well, I was getting into the car to drive
>> > home from work and this lady here asked me for a ride to the shelter.
>> >
>> > She looked so down and out and defenseless that I took pity on her
>> > and so I let her into the car.
>> >
>> > I noticed that she was very thin, not well dressed and dirty.
>> >
>> > She told me that she hadn’t eaten for three days!
>> >
>> > So, in my compassion, I brought her home and warmed up the
>> > enchiladas I made for you for dinner last night - the ones you
>> > wouldn’t eat because you’re afraid you’ll put on weight.
>> >
>> > The poor thing devoured them in moments..
>> >
>> > Since she needed a good clean up, I suggested she jump in the shower,
>>
>> > and while she was doing that I realized her clothes were dirty and
>> > full of holes and weren’t worth laundering, so I threw them away.
>> >
>> > Since she is about the same size as you are and because she needed
>> > clothes, I gave her those designer jeans that I gave you a couple of
>> > years ago as a ‘just-because’, but you won’t use because you say
>> > they aren’t therightdesigner.. I found the pretty blouse my sister
>> > gave you for Christmas last year that you don’t use just to annoy her.
>> >
>> > I also gave her the underwear that I gave you as a gift on our
>> > anniversary, which you don’t use because ‘I don’t have good taste’,
>> > and I also gave her those boots you bought at the expensive boutique
>> > and won’t use because someone at work has the same pair.”
>> >
>> > The husband took a quick breath and continued - “She was so grateful
>>
>> > for my generous compassion and help, as I walked her to the door, she
>> >
>> > turned to me with tears of gratitude in her eyes and said, “Please,
>> > sir .... do you have anything else that your wife doesn’t use?”
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > So here we are!!!
And I don't think I would want you to!
Dang! That is good. Can I use it next time?
There was an even greater age difference between Woody Allen and his daughter.
For some reason that picture stuck out to me too...I don’t have the slightest idea why. ;-}
Get outta here! And don't post anything until you've got some alcohol in ya!
Leave it to Europeans to study this phenomenon. Go ask any group of males in a bar, buy a round, and you’d get this conclusion for a much lower expenditure.
WHEN I WAS MARRIED 25 YEARS, I TOOK A LOOK AT MY WIFE ONE DAY AND SAID,"HONEY, 25 YEARS AGO WE HAD A CHEAP APARTMENT, A CHEAP CAR, SLEPT ON A SOFA BED AND WATCHED A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV.
BUT I GOT TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT WITH A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD BLOND."
NOW WE HAVE A $500,000.00 HOME, A $45,000.00 CAR, A NICE BIG BED AND APLASMA SCREEN TV, BUT I'M SLEEPING WITH A 50-YEAR-OLD WOMAN.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU ARE NOT HOLDING UP YOUR SIDE OF THINGS."
MY WIFE IS A VERY REASONABLE WOMAN. SHE TOLD ME TO GO OUT AND FIND A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD BLONDE.
SHE WOULD THEN MAKE SURE THAT I WOULD ONCE AGAIN BE LIVING IN A CHEAP APARTMENT, DRIVING A CHEAP CAR, SLEEPING ON A SOFA BED AND WATCHING A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV.
AREN'T OLDER WOMEN GREAT? THEY REALLY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE YOUR MID-LIFE CRISIS!
A woman is doing dishes and the the sink starts leaking. She asks her husband to please fix it. Her husband says, “Who do you think I am, a plumber?”
A few hours later a lightbulb in the hall goes out and she asks her husband to replace it because she cannot reach it. Her husband replies, “Who do you think I am an electrician?”
At the end of the evening they are on the front porch and the wife says, “by the way the front porch steps are broken.” The husband replies, “who do you think I am, a carpenter?”
The husband then proceeds to yell at his wife and leaves for the local bar. After a few hours of being at the bar the husband comes home to apologize.
Upon climbing the steps to the porch he notices that they are fixed. He enters the house, walks down the hall and discovers the lightbulb has been changed. He gets a drink of water from the sink and discovers it is no longer leaking. He finds his wife and asks her what happened.
The wife says, “Well, after you yelled at me I sat on the porch and cried. A man came up on the porch to see what was wrong and I told him the whole story. He offered to fix all the problems if I would bake him a cake or sleep with him”. The husband said, “What kind of cake did you bake him?”
The wife replied, “Who do you think I am, Betty Crocker?”
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