The truth about women being “like wolves at thirty but like tigers at forty”

After women reach the age of 25, their instinct to seek children will be challenged. As a woman ages, her chances of fertilizing her eggs become smaller and smaller. Therefore, middle-aged women's desire for sex is increasing.

After men cheat on their spouses, they always like to use this set of words: It was the instinctive evolutionary program of animals that made me do this. Especially in recent years, many articles have shown that men are looking for women everywhere because the evolution of animal nature has set them to constantly look for a more fertile, more suitable, and younger uterus.

What about women? If evolution really drives men to flirt with women, what affects women’s sexual desire? Please read an article published by University of Texas psychologist David Buss and three of his graduate assistants (Judith Easton, Jaime Confer and Cari Goetz) in Personality and Individual Differences (the following is an abstract):

Women in their 30s and early 40s have a stronger sexual desire than younger women. And women aged 27 to 45 not only have more and more intense sexual fantasies than women aged 18 to 26, but also have more sexual life and duration. They are more likely than younger women to have casual sexual experiences, even one-night stands. In other words, although the American people think that college girls are synonymous with promiscuity and indulgence, in fact, middle-aged women are the most diligent model workers in the United States when it comes to sex.

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The truth about women being “like wolves at thirty and like tigers at forty”

Evolution also encourages women to seek more sex because of their fertility Their strength begins to decline and they are about to enter menopause.

The following is their theory: Due to various diseases, hunger, wars and other factors, ancient women were accustomed to the reality that up to half of their children might die in infancy. This psychological trauma made them fearful of the future. A generation with the attitude that more is better. When they are still in their teens and twenties, they can get pregnant easily even if they have limited sex.

But after the age of 25, their instinct to seek children is challenged. As a woman ages, her chances of fertilizing her eggs become smaller and smaller. Therefore, middle-aged women's desire for sex is increasing.

To test this theory, Bass and his students surveyed 827 women about their sexual habits. And, in fact, they found that women who were past their peak fertility, but not quite in menopause, were the most sexually active. For both single and married women, married women in their 30s and early 40s are having more sex than married women in their early twenties. Again, this has nothing to do with whether a woman is a mother. Only age has a strong impact on women's sexual interests and behavior.

However, some of the data in this article still have some flaws. Mainly: About three-quarters of the participants in the study were recruited from Craigslist, which makes it difficult to ensure diversity in the sample (the other participants were all students from the University of Texas at Austin). The author also points out that there are other explanations for why women are "like wolves at thirty and like tigers at forty." Many of them may simply want more comfortable sex than women in their late teens to early twenties. However, this raises the question, why would they want to be more comfortable? Perhaps it's due to an evolutionary programming need for comfort.