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Earlier research has suggested that this difference between the sexes’ age preferences is resolved according to ... Age Limits. Received 2016 May 5, Accepted 2016 Dec 28, Collection date 2017 Jan-Mar.
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The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). PMCID: PMC10367477 PMID: 28127998. Abstract. Whereas women of all ages prefer slightly older sexual partners, men—regardless of their age—have a preference for women in their 20s. Earlier research has suggested that this difference between the sexes’ age preferences is resolved according to women’s preferences. This research has not, however, sufficiently considered that the age range of considered partners might change over the life span. Here we investigated the age limits (youngest and oldest) of considered and actual sex partners in a population-based sample of 2,655 adults (aged 18-50 years). Over the investigated age span, women reported a narrower age range than men and women tended to prefer slightly older men. We also show that men’s age range widens as they get older: While they continue to consider sex with young women, men also consider sex with women their own age or older. Contrary to earlier suggestions, men’s sexual activity thus reflects also their own age range, although their potential interest in younger women is not likely converted into sexual activity. Compared to homosexual men, bisexual and heterosexual men were more unlikely to convert young preferences into actual behavior, supporting female-choice theory. Keywords: age preferences, sexual behavior, mate preferences, sex differences, female choice. Heterosexual women’s sexual interest in slightly older men has been explained as reflecting the human bi-maturation process, by which females mature earlier than males (van den Berghe, 1992), and/or as a trade-off between the increased social dominance and the decrease in remaining life span in older men (Antfolk et al., 2015). That heterosexual men’s sexual age preferences is focused at women in their 20s has been explained as the evolutionary consequence of this age being associated with high female fecundity and peak copulation to conception ratios (Sozou & Hartshorne, 2012, Tietze, 1957, Wood, 1989). The risk for miscarriages and chromosomal abnormalities in the offspring also becomes approximately 10 times higher in 40-year-old mothers compared to 25-year-old mothers (Hecht & Hook, 1996, Heffner, 2004), and this increase is paired with an increased risk of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism in offspring (Shelton, Tancredi, & Hertz-Picciotto, 2010). A female partner’s age is thus associated with men’s probability of producing offspring (and this offspring being healthy), and men who prefer sex with relatively old women would thus have left relatively few allele copies to future generations. To the extent these alleles are associated with sexual age preferences, such preferences would become decreasingly rare in the population (e.g., Kenrick & Keefe, 1992). What about sexual age preferences in homosexual (vs. heterosexual) men and women? Studies on this topic suggest that age preferences in homosexual individuals are largely similar to those of heterosexual individuals: Like their heterosexual counterparts, homosexual men show a tendency to be sexually interested in young men and homosexual women show a tendency to be interested in women in their own age range (Hayes, 1995, Kenrick, Keefe, Bryan, Barr, & Brown, 1995, Silverthorne & Quinsey, 2000). These findings have been taken to support the modularity hypothesis of sexual orientation. The modularity hypothesis (e.g., Symons, 1979) explains homosexuality as different from heterosexuality only with respect to the sex of the desired partner and suggests that homosexual and heterosexual individuals show similar patterns regarding other aspects of sexual psychology. Thus, no differences in age preferences would be expected based on sexual orientation alone. Very little is known about age preferences in bisexuals. A study by Adam (2000) suggests, however, that both homosexual men and bisexual men display the same interest in young partners as heterosexual men do. Another, related observation is that both heterosexual men’s and heterosexual women’s actual sexual behavior is predicted by women’s sexual age preferences, and much less by men’s sexual age preferences (Kenrick & Keefe, 1992). This finding has been explained as a function of female choice. Parental investment theory (Trivers, 1972) predicts that women are choosier than men with respect to the characteristics of a potential sexual partner. The reason for this is that women invest more than men in pregnancy, child birth, and nurturing a child and therefore invest more energy in the case of a pregnancy—a very possible consequence of sex (Trivers, 1972). If female choosiness explains the discrepancy between heterosexual men’s preferences and actual behavior, a different pattern ought to emerge in homosexual and heterosexual men.
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Earlier research has suggested that this difference between the sexes’ age preferences is resolved according to ... Age Limits. Received 2016 May 5, Accepted 2016 Dec 28, Collection date 2017 Jan-Mar.
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The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). PMCID: PMC10367477 PMID: 28127998. Abstract. Whereas women of all ages prefer slightly older sexual partners, men—regardless of their age—have a preference for women in their 20s. Earlier research has suggested that this difference between the sexes’ age preferences is resolved according to women’s preferences. This research has not, however, sufficiently considered that the age range of considered partners might change over the life span. Here we investigated the age limits (youngest and oldest) of considered and actual sex partners in a population-based sample of 2,655 adults (aged 18-50 years). Over the investigated age span, women reported a narrower age range than men and women tended to prefer slightly older men. We also show that men’s age range widens as they get older: While they continue to consider sex with young women, men also consider sex with women their own age or older. Contrary to earlier suggestions, men’s sexual activity thus reflects also their own age range, although their potential interest in younger women is not likely converted into sexual activity. Compared to homosexual men, bisexual and heterosexual men were more unlikely to convert young preferences into actual behavior, supporting female-choice theory. Keywords: age preferences, sexual behavior, mate preferences, sex differences, female choice. Heterosexual women’s sexual interest in slightly older men has been explained as reflecting the human bi-maturation process, by which females mature earlier than males (van den Berghe, 1992), and/or as a trade-off between the increased social dominance and the decrease in remaining life span in older men (Antfolk et al., 2015). That heterosexual men’s sexual age preferences is focused at women in their 20s has been explained as the evolutionary consequence of this age being associated with high female fecundity and peak copulation to conception ratios (Sozou & Hartshorne, 2012, Tietze, 1957, Wood, 1989). The risk for miscarriages and chromosomal abnormalities in the offspring also becomes approximately 10 times higher in 40-year-old mothers compared to 25-year-old mothers (Hecht & Hook, 1996, Heffner, 2004), and this increase is paired with an increased risk of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism in offspring (Shelton, Tancredi, & Hertz-Picciotto, 2010). A female partner’s age is thus associated with men’s probability of producing offspring (and this offspring being healthy), and men who prefer sex with relatively old women would thus have left relatively few allele copies to future generations. To the extent these alleles are associated with sexual age preferences, such preferences would become decreasingly rare in the population (e.g., Kenrick & Keefe, 1992). What about sexual age preferences in homosexual (vs. heterosexual) men and women? Studies on this topic suggest that age preferences in homosexual individuals are largely similar to those of heterosexual individuals: Like their heterosexual counterparts, homosexual men show a tendency to be sexually interested in young men and homosexual women show a tendency to be interested in women in their own age range (Hayes, 1995, Kenrick, Keefe, Bryan, Barr, & Brown, 1995, Silverthorne & Quinsey, 2000). These findings have been taken to support the modularity hypothesis of sexual orientation. The modularity hypothesis (e.g., Symons, 1979) explains homosexuality as different from heterosexuality only with respect to the sex of the desired partner and suggests that homosexual and heterosexual individuals show similar patterns regarding other aspects of sexual psychology. Thus, no differences in age preferences would be expected based on sexual orientation alone. Very little is known about age preferences in bisexuals. A study by Adam (2000) suggests, however, that both homosexual men and bisexual men display the same interest in young partners as heterosexual men do. Another, related observation is that both heterosexual men’s and heterosexual women’s actual sexual behavior is predicted by women’s sexual age preferences, and much less by men’s sexual age preferences (Kenrick & Keefe, 1992). This finding has been explained as a function of female choice. Parental investment theory (Trivers, 1972) predicts that women are choosier than men with respect to the characteristics of a potential sexual partner. The reason for this is that women invest more than men in pregnancy, child birth, and nurturing a child and therefore invest more energy in the case of a pregnancy—a very possible consequence of sex (Trivers, 1972). If female choosiness explains the discrepancy between heterosexual men’s preferences and actual behavior, a different pattern ought to emerge in homosexual and heterosexual men.