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*Evolutionary reasons.
Back in the day, our social groups were not too different from that of other primates.
Leftovers of this is very apparent in online dating where the most attractive (both physically and mentally) guys get's the most attention from the opposite sex.
Males did not have social status enough to mate until they got a little older, but more or less all females did mate. An older male would be more able to provide for the offspring while the younger would likely get a beating for hitting on a female an older male was interested in.
So, for the majority of our species existence, the males were older than the females when forming couples. Something occuring for hundreds of thousands of years does not vanish from our subconscious after some decades of social liberation, and much of how we act today can be traced back to something having a positive impact if a similar thing happened during the stone age (an age lasting roughly 300 thousand years)
*Evolutionary reasons.
Back in the day, our social groups were not too different from that of other primates.
Leftovers of this is very apparent in online dating where the most attractive (both physically and mentally) guys get's the most attention from the opposite sex.
Males did not have social status enough to mate until they got a little older, but more or less all females did mate. An older male would be more able to provide for the offspring while the younger would likely get a beating for hitting on a female an older male was interested in.
So, for the majority of our species existence, the males were older than the females when forming couples. Something occuring for hundreds of thousands of years does not vanish from our subconscious after some decades of social liberation, and much of how we act today can be traced back to something having a positive impact if a similar thing happened during the stone age (an age lasting roughly 300 thousand years)