Dating in my late 30s has been a great experience. While it’s most likely due to the confidence boost from an increased focus on my health and finally figuring out what I’m doing with my hair, there’s something to be said for just being older. People can see something in the eyes of a person who remembers the cola wars.
The very same demographic that I struggled with just out of college seems a lot more approachable now. If I had known it would be this easy to talk to people, I would have started bleaching my facial hair years ago.
According to a recent poll by Badoo, the world’s largest dating app, I’m not the only one receiving extra attention from a younger generation.
By sampling a database of over 10,000 of their users’ preferences they determined that 26% of people aged 18-24 would date someone over the age of 35. All of those clickbait news articles written by 40-somethings that regularly shit on millennials must have created some kind of Stockholm syndrome because now more than a quarter of them want to fuck us. Cool!
Analysis of the data revealed nearly a third of millennial women have either dated someone more than 10 years older or would be open to it. Though men are a bit less likely to prefer the company of older women, when they do they’re not playing around. About 9% of men stated they would date someone 20 years their senior.
Given what we know about the importance of sex to one’s health, having a younger partner could help improve your brain function as you age.
We once read a study that suggested women between the ages of 50-89 who have regular sex have better short and long-term memory abilities than their less sexually active counterparts. Likewise, older men with healthier sex lives were found to have both improved memory as well as executive function. If someone were to link having a younger lover with having more sex it sounds like we’d really be onto something here.
As for why millennials are more open to larger age gaps when choosing partners, nobody is sure why. Many theories suggest a preference for older men or women stems from attachment styles that develop as a result of an absent parent or attention from authority figures. It has also been noted that people who have a fascination with television shows and movies from before they were born may find themselves having more in common with older lovers than those their own age.
Realistically nobody knows for sure but attributing it to reruns of Full House sounds just as plausible as anything else.
Via chron.com
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