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Quality of sperm decays with age. Just not in the same curve as egg reserves.
by meristem 7y ago
Quality of sperm decays with age. Just not in the same curve as egg reserves.
- claudiawerner 7y agoSo if it were purely biological, we'd expect to see some sort of negative gradient for men's preferred ages, though not as exaggerated as the one for women's preferred ages? I'm also unclear as to what the question was which prompted the answers from men and women, or what the motivations were. There is much more to a relationship than sex for procreation, and almost everyone seems to realize this fact. So the conclusion is that men simply find young women attractive (and the "reproductive age" evo-psych just-so story cannot justify it), or men no matter how old they are continue to want children, at the expense of a relationship with a fully developed adult.
- lostmsu 7y agoDoes the quality of sperm have any negative effect on the child or mother?
- leftyted 7y agoOlder fathers are associated with all kinds of negative childbirth outcomes. Just not as much as older mothers.
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- taneq 7y agoAnd resources (especially of single men) increase more than linearly with age, to make up for it.
- dreen 7y agoThis wouldnt matter in a natural environment, but our biology hasnt caught up with us not living in such environments anymore.