From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp Newsgroups: net.social,net.singles Title: Age differences Article-I.D.: sdchema.350 Posted: Wed Jan 5 13:24:34 1983 Received: Thu Jan 6 08:00:24 1983 There has been discussion recently in net.singles regarding women dating and marrying younger men. It was pointed out that in this society such situations are generally viewed with vague (at best) disapproval. Someone asked why this should be, and someone else said that the societal requirement that men be older than the women they marry was simply something that "had been beaten into your head" (not necessarily a direct quote).