Older men dating younger women are evolutionarily beneficial, cougars are gross? How can we promote this?

Question

Study: May-December Romances Good for Human Race
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297076,00.html

Older men who shack up with much younger women keep the Grim Reaper at bay for the human population and extend our species' lifespan, new research claims.

Women often lose their reproductive capacity around age 50, but if men can still reproduce into their 70s, Darwin would say it's advantageous for males to live longer lives providing they can hook up with a woman capable of reproducing.

Natural selection should favor longevity-boosting genes, which would get passed down from fathers to both sons and daughters. So women would benefit as well in future generations, the scientists say.

Result: Over time, the older-guy-with-younger-gal lifestyle would lift the lifespan ceiling for both men and women in the next generations and so on.

- The reverse isn't true considering women's reproductive life is shorter than that of men.

How can we raise awareness of this, for everyone's benefit?

I'm 29. How old are you, "mama"?

Also, you're clueless. Everybody thinks in terms of evolutionary benefit most of the time. If they didn't - no more human race. Get it?

Uh "mama". I'm not interested in dumbing down the human race by including you in the gene pool. So take your clumsy advances and fu­ck off. We are talking about 50+ year old men here. The fact that you seem to be annoyed by this means that whether you are annoyed or not is more or less a weather vane of truth. If you are annoyed by something - it is probably true.

Yes "mama" most women would agree .. with me. You are now blocked so your stupidity is eternal.

Answer 1

gross.

you are a garwy sock puppet, right?

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Garwy

Answer 2

Since the current average lifespan is around 75 years, the only way to really increase the lifespan of humans is for women to be with men who are 75 years or older. Sorry, but that's disgusting. Very few women in their right mind would want some wrinkly old man, when she could have a nice virile guy somewhere more near her own age. Unless, of course, she's a gold digger or he has a damn good personality.

Secondly, there's nothing gross of harmful about cougars. They may not be providing the longevity boost that 75+ men could conceivably provide, but they aren't hurting humanity in any way.

Raise awareness if you want, but that doesn't mean anyone is going to be more likely to do it. Especially not when it means young women are going to be getting the raw end of the deal while nasty old men get an unfair bonus.

I honestly don't think you care much about improving the human race...I think you just want to make gross old men dating younger women more socially acceptable, while making older women dating young men socially unacceptable...probably for your own benefit when you're older rather than the benefit of the human race.

Answer 3

Are you some sick pervert that desperately needs to hook up with a younger woman to feel better about himself?
It's not like we're exactly just mating, it's matters of the heart we're talking about here, and they don't actually think in terms of evolutionary benefit most of the time.

EDIT -- MM well I sure don't envision our children and their biological benefits when I choose to date a guy, it's usually got more to do with brains, looks...and please tell, how good is some old fat dude gonna be in bed? 29 is alright -- but then, that's not really that much older for me you know. I'm talking 40, 50 here, and that's just fugly.

EDIT -- No I'm not annoyed I just think it's disgusting. They can't even get their tinkies up without some chemical help, and they're all wrinkly. Plus, that's older than my dad! Ask most women, and they would agree with you -- what you're saying is disgusting.

Answer 4

I totally agree with you brother happy. My my dad is almost 11 years older than my mom and theyve been married 43 years, and to the people who said that older men who go for younger women are creeps, my dad was a virgin when he married at the age of 29 and and my mom was also at the age of 18. Im 40 and still a virgin, and definatly when i get married i wanna have kids, and ive had lots of younger women that have liked me .

these women and men that say stay in your age range are new age idiots. This is the way it was done for thousands of years until these days. Look at the divorce rates, look at the broken marriages.

Your right about cougars also. Younger guys arent going to go for older ladies to marry them unless they dont love kids.
Most women over 40 cant have children(except in rare cases).

Answer 5

The human race is not in trouble of going extinct. In fact, the world is overpopulated. I guess that means that older, unfertile women will have to start hooking up with younger men to stall the breeding of the human race!

Answer 6

From an evolutionary biology perspective, the understanding of evolution in that article is problematic. Natural selection isn't this logical mechanism selecting the best traits and evolution isn't a process by which we will eventually create the most amazing humans ever. It's random and non-progressive. I thought I would add that for what it's worth...

Answer 7

That article is a bunch of crock probably written by a woman wanting to justify her own May-December romance. And I didn’t hook up with my boyfriend, who’s only 5 years older than me, as an attempt to further the species or whatever.

Answer 8

What benefit do you suspect is to be had by such a warning?

Maybe some men date older women because they specifically DON'T want more kids?

Maybe because they want a motherly, or maternal presence in their lives.

Do you think that older women should be restricted to baking cookies and pinching the cheeks of grandchildren?

Answer 9

Ibecause cougars are hunters and its like when a older lady hunts for the young. so thats were they get the term cougar

Answer 10

Each serves a purpose. Older men who attract younger women for various reasons.
Cougars, if that is the term you must use, also fulfill a purpse and that is to introduce younger men to sex, properly.
That way they will become older men, who will attract younger women!!
darwin didn't know diddly!!

Answer 11

Men cant get it up after their peak time of age 20 to 30, then they have to struggle and pull and play. Whats the good of an old ****** living with a young woman, she wont want a weak noodle, thats goes down faster than it goes up.