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Chemistry Lessons Ladies! Are you looking for a younger man? An investment opportunity? Both??? Julia Macmillan has just the thing for you: It's called toyboywarehouse.com. Macmillan, who is 40-something, launched the site 18 months ago, and is looking for an investor. She was disenchanted with sites like Match.com and DatingDirect.com, which she claims tried to fix women her age up with retired golf-players. "Our site is aimed at strong independent women who don’t want a pipe and slippers man,” Ms. Macmillan explains. The good news? Guys are flocking to the site. "There are almost double the amount of men compared with women," she says. And she hates the word "cougar". "It sounds predatory and that’s not what this is about." Meanwhile, Macmillan is currently single. "My last relationship finished coincidentally when I launched the site. I think he might have been a bit jealous." Time to turn to her database of dudes! [Financial Times]

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Screw Science: There's Something Sexy About Younger Men

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 »

2:30 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Dodai
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Latest by n/a: I'm embarassingly into Emile. But I think it's because we are the same age. Well, he is exactly one month my Jr... but it's something about being so young and sucessful. Just seeing someone much more driven than I who more »