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Old 06-15-2012, 04:45 PM   #24
fjtorres
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Okay, try this:

Older man - younger woman: culturally accepted for centuries in both life and literature.
Older woman - younger man: not as common in life or literature.

Why?
Childbirth is frakking dangerous!
Even in modern societies with state-of-the-art medical care doctors take the sure bet surgical solution in a third to half of all deliveries. (The 50% rate comes in one-child-per couple China, unsurprisingly.)

Factor that in and you'll see why older male-younger woman pairings are more common than the converse: many young women never made it to "older woman" while many a male found themselves a widower with a squealing baby. With replacement brides being cheaper than nannies...

Times and living standards change but the mores stay with us long beyond the point where they make sense.
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