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He was 77; she was 16. [Images via Pacific Coast News Online.] More »
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It seems that in these lean times, the fashion industry likes its guys a little meatier than in seasons past — you know, "real men." Where have we heard this before? More »
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One men's group is trying to address an oft-ignored problem: lacking the close friendships many women have, old dudes often get lonely. More »
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Today in prescriptive studies about how to conduct your love life: for a lasting marriage, women should pick men who are at least five years older, and have less education. More »
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It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the biweekly "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. More »
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Schoolgirls beware! An Older Man might give you a white rectangle — with AIDS inside! Or perhaps some broken families. [BuzzFeed] More »
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A German study found a man's risk of premature death is 11 percent lower if his wife is seven to nine years younger, perhaps because healthier men attract younger wives. Women with husbands seven to nine years older or younger are 20 percent more likely to die early. [The Telegraph] More »
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Like most women, most of my dating life, I've dated older boys and men. It's almost what you're supposed to do, right? Men mature more slowly, they're less ready to settle down, they're less self-confident when they're younger. Older man are supposed to be more settled, more confident, more mature, more relationship-ready. Well, I'm 30 and I'm calling bullshit on all those theories. At this point, some of the most fucked-up men, the ones who treated me the worst, were older than me — often a lot older. And maybe I'm getting less mature by the day, but I could give a shit right now if some dude is living in a group house or making no money or thinks fart jokes are hilarious if he's also smart, funny and treats me with the respect and, I'll admit it, deference I'm sort of into right now. And I'm just not getting that from the older guys. More »
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Over on Salon, Carol Lloyd is pondering the pairing of women with older men, specifically, a recent study in Sweden which found that when women are 4 to 6 years younger than their male partners, they give birth to more kids. Martin Fieder, an anthropologist at the University of Vienna, speculates that men evolved a preference for younger women because those women have a longer fertility span. Meanwhile, women might give birth to more children when they choose older partners because those guys are more likely to have greater financial resources. But, says Lloyd: "I've always cast a jaundiced eye on our cultural assumptions that men should be older (not to mention taller) than their wives. It seemed just another manifestation of the gender imbalances that coursed through our workplaces, government and educational system. Of course, when in love, all bets are off." (Lloyd married a man 11 years older.) More »
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