More Proof That Men and Women Are Very Different

Older women like to chase younger men, but the younger men usually prefer even younger women. Older men chase younger women and they get married.

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Horseshit. We young guys have enough trouble finding women without them being taken by old fogies.


Its happened again. This time Hugh Hefner, an already overly lucky son of a bitch that lives with dozens of gorgeous young women that are willing to get naked, got engaged over Christmas. I wonder what the sex would be like. Its just hard to see an 84 year old having sex with a 23 year old model.

As always, science has an opinion on these situations. Unlike women, who lose their fertility around age 50, men stay fertile forever. As said in the "Survival of the Fittest: Survival of the Most Likely to Get Pregnant as a Teenager" and "Old Men, Healthy Babies" posts, there are benefits to such couplings. Teenage mothers have many more years to have more children and older fathers may have healthier sperm and be more stable parents.

There is another reason: a combination of the two. Much older men married to younger women have more children and healthier children. Researchers from the University of Turku looked through parish marriage records from the 17th through 19th centuries of three separate Sami groups in Finland. The men that married women that were on average 14.6 years younger than the men had the best "evolutionary fitness." In other words, they had the most children surviving to adulthood.

"Young Sami women were the most fertile and had the highest reproductive value, whereas older Sami men had acquired enough skills needed for successful hunting, fishing and reindeer herding and, most importantly, wealth to be good providers for the progeny and thus desirable mates," concluded Dr Samuli Helle. Still, such marriages were uncommon, with men only being slightly older than their wives. Its believed that Sami society doesn't approve of such large age differences.

Its worth noting that the age of the couples according to the parish records are likely just guesses. I've done some family tree research and the dates of birth are often in question, especially the further back in time you go.


Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3317353/Why-men-like-to-marry-younger-women.html