>Carl Remick wrote:
>>
>> > >A gay friend of mine said about ten years ago that he
>> > >was always astonished at how heterosexual men just assumed they could
be
>> > >fat and slovenly and women would go for them anyway. Maybe that's
>> > >changing.
>> >
>> >
>> >according to the research done on college studients it is...slowly.
women
>> >*still* say that a sense of humor and character are most important.
>>
>> Er, and that's to be discouraged?
>>
>> Carl
Crying out load, what earthly use is the information that it's changing "slowly"?!?!? What I need to know is, am I going to be dead before it becomes a serious factor? Where oh where is the spurious precision of econometrics when we need it? Sounds like a job for John Lott, or something.
Quite seriously. I don't know about Carl, but I need this information. In the five years since I entered the workforce, I've moved from the lower to the upper end of my healthy range of weights. I'm clearly at that point in my metabolic life where I have to decide whether or not to let myself go. I've got quite a cheerful/scatterbrained disposition, so I'm unlikely to ever enjoy the routine and concentration of pumping iron, plus I really like drinking a lot. But I don't necessarily want to commit to spending the next twenty years turning into a walrus if I run the risk of adgering my sex life over the next ten! Why is nobody researching these important questions?
> Don't know many guys on the loose over forty who date women their own
>age, though. Went to an academic party last year that consisted almost
>entirely of middle=aged male profs and their young sweeties. It was like
>a father-daughter convention.
>Katha
Hmmm, I think that this may be an academic thing, in that the age of a prof increases at a rate of one year per year, while the modal age of the pool of graduate students tends to be a stationary process. Add that to a relationship half-life of, say five years, and you can pretty much explain the whole phenomenon. A random poll of financial professionals at the Flemings Global Banks Conference dinner didn't really produce any such May/December effect.
dd
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