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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: "Violating social norms" carries certain health risks
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:05:04 +0200



<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7729143/The-cougars-taste-for-toyboys-could-be-her-undoing.html>


Yet now comes the reckoning, in the form of that report last week from a German 
research organisation, the Max Planck Institute, which claimed that women who 
took up with younger men were likely to have a much reduced life expectancy. 
"The best choice for a woman is to marry a man of exactly the same age," said 
the institute's director, Sven Drefahl. "The bigger the age gap, the greater the
woman's chances of dying prematurely."


The even worse news was that men involved with younger women tended to live 
longer. So what's going on? The researchers suggested that women who take 
younger partners are seen to be "violating social norms", and suffer ostracism 
from their families and neighbours to a degree that causes stress. The toll of 
it affects their health and morale, leading to increased mortality.



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