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It could just be economics. If you recall the old "supply and demand curves" from high school economics, as demand goes down the "price" of the good goes down too. THis guy actually took the time to make a chart;

http://captaincapitalism.bl...

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Too much of a leap with that other better men statement.

There's just so much involved in that, that needs to be unwound.

What occurs to me first is that older women are more secure, and the study you cited was looking at those who had been married for 20 or more years. So much of the hormonal fluctuations, along with parenting and the uncertainties that always accompany the first years of marriage, and other such facets too numerous to cover - those are gone in the later years, and we're left with a secure woman who is of course familiar and comfortable with her mate.

So this mature, confident woman has been married at least 20 years to the same man, and she equates intimacy with good sex while the man and his decreasing testosterone levels is more apt to hope she will be satisfied with less, because he knows he's not performing as he did in the past. As far he knows though it's okay since the younger wife he's been married to wasn't always this sexually confident, and now he thinks he's just on her level.

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