But when they do happen, the older party is almost always male. This statistic functions as a bit of an ink blot test. Heavily online single women, repeatedly told by the manosphere that no man would ever want them past the age of thirty-five or heck, twenty-five! Those same manosphere guys are quick to either discredit the statistic with the following arguments:.
Ignore all those tweets where I said men hit their sexual peak at fifty. The question is: why? Many age-gap relationships of, say, fifteen years are built on genuine attraction. But othersโthe really outrageous ones, the billionaire on his sixth wife or year old rockstar with his Gen Z girlfriendโare more transactional. Have at it as long as everyone is consenting!
Of course, outliers exist. This is about why, on the whole, we see older wealthy men with young girlfriends and not the reverse nearly as often. I decided to do my very own unscientific poll. I asked my followers on Twitter if they would be open to a transactional sexual relationship with someone twenty-five years their senior. And what do you know: men were more likely to be open to it than women were.
I upped the ante. What about if it was 35 years? Men and women were both roughly as uninterested in this one. Not surprisingly, this option was far more appealing than both of the previous options. However, men were more interested in this scenario than women, which flies directly in the face of the real-world statistics showing that this relationship actually often involves a younger woman, not a younger man:.
And now, the poll that confirms my hypothesis. Flipping the script, how open are you to being the older person in the relationship?
