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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
I'm not really going to disagree with you here. I've watched the shows on Discovery channel. 
But do you suppose this is still true once a woman has passed child-bearing age? I tend to think not. Once the urge to reproduce has passed, we look more for the qualities that are not biologically motivated.
Which might explain why men tend to continue to be inclined toward the traits in women that indicate fertility even as they age. Being that they are capable of producing active sperm well past the age that most women remain fertile. |
I'm not sure about that, but its possible. From an evolutionary stand point, once you are past child bearing age, what you do is irrelevant unless it impacts the lives of your existing offspring. What this means is that there isn't evolutionary pressure to evolve new behaviors past child bearing age. There are some very interesting evolutionary possibilities with this and our now increased life expectancy, but I think this goes a bit beyond the scope of what makes women happy, or what they want from men.
What I do think happens to women as they get older is as the hormones calm down it leaves more room for logic and wisdom to take over. Though that being said, I'm still not sure about it. Its quite possible that its a trait that remains, at least in some, even after its 'usefulness' in biologic terms is gone.