Why science says having a boy toy could shave years off women's lives... yet men benefit from a younger lover
Daily MailExperts say that biological and social pressures could be to blame It's somewhat rare for older women to date substantially younger men Madonna has long been a fan of the cougar lifestyle - saying that younger men's zest for life makes them better partners. This could be because women take on more stress in a relationship than men do, which ages them more quickly, Stacey Litam, an assistant Professor at Cleveland State University and Forbes Health Advisor who studies sexual wellbeing, told DailyMail.com. There's also the public fascination with the 24 year age gap between 33 year old Aaron Taylor-Johnson and 57 year old director Sam Taylor-Johnson. This idea spans from a massively popular study published in 1984 that men aged 70-79 who were married to younger women lived longer than others in their age group.
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