Age Attractiveness

Parental age difference and offspring count in humans

On the basis of a sample of approximately 10 000 post-reproductive Swedish men and women who did not change their partner between the birth of their first and last child, we find maximum offspring count in men if their partner is approximately 6 years younger, and in women if their partner is approximately 4 years older.

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/6/689

Although men are most attracted to women in their late teens to late 20ies, on at least some measures, heterosexual men are almost as sexually responsive to nude pubertal and early adolescent females.

“For any given woman, RV is age-dependent. It increases throughout childhood as she successfully passes through a period during which death but not reproduction is possible, reaches a maximum at the beginning of the reproductive period [typically the late teens], and steadily declines thereafter, reaching zero at the onset of menopause.

A number of authors have argued that men are attracted to features associated with RV…. In particular, some authors have argued that men are attracted to features associated with women’s age of maximum RV, late adolescence… And indeed, many studies show that sexually attracted features are maximally developed in women at these ages. Women’s breasts, for instance, develop at puberty, reaching adult size by late adolescence. Men are particularly attracted to breasts that are firm, upright, and characterized by relatively reduced nipple pigmentation. These features peak during adolescence and in young, nulliparous women… Women’s waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is a phenotypic indicator of the ratio of gynoid fat distributed throughout the hips and buttocks to android fat around the abdomen. In many modern and traditional populations, men find women’s bodies with relatively low WHRs (around .7)… particularly attractive. WHRs reach minimum values during adolescence and, on average, rise as a function of women’s age and parity…”

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5uVUwCE3Vm4C&lpg=PA113&ots=4GAZixbBsr&dq=gynoid%20fat%20gynoid%20fat%20gynoid%20fat&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woman/