Why Doesn't Hillary Clinton Have a 25 Year Old Boyfriend?

The question absolutely everyone is thinking about

Perhaps you’ve started your Tuesday by finishing up some heads-down tasks at work, grabbing a cup of coffee, or playing with your children. But most likely, the entire time you were thinking what I know everyone thinks about from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep at night: why doesn’t Hillary Clinton have a 25-year-old boyfriend?

Obviously, I’m not just talking about Hillary Clinton. I’m talking about wealthy, powerful older women in general. Age gap relationships (let’s say, 10+ years) are rarer than Reddit’s r/relationships would have us think. Marriage statistics bear this out, with the vast majority of married couples within five years of each other’s ages. Larger age gaps (20+ or even 30+ years) are exceedingly rare. But when they do happen, the older party is almost always male.

This statistic functions as a bit of an ink blot test. Heavily online single women, repeatedly told by the manosphere that no man would ever want them past the age of thirty-five (or heck, twenty-five!) will find it affirming, considering on average, most women want to marry someone around their own age. Those same manosphere guys are quick to either discredit the statistic with the following arguments:

• “This is only marriage- these are the cucked betas who women settled for, in reality all of those women were getting railed by all the fifty-year-old Chads in the club bathroom before they got hitched.”

• “This statistic shows that age gap marriages are very common, because when I said “age gap” I was actually talking about gaps of five years, not twenty. (Ignore all those tweets where I said men hit their sexual peak at fifty.)”

I think everyone, regardless of political affiliation, can agree on a few things, though:

1. Most marriages are between people close in age.

2. Age gap relationships are usually an older man, and a younger woman.

The question is: why? Not so much, why would a younger woman date an older man, but why aren’t younger men dating older women?

Of course, younger men and older women do date from time to time—but not nearly as often, as this poll appropriately conducted on behalf of “Cougar Life” indicates. Basically, age gap relationships are more common in dating than in marriage, but the same pattern exists: they’re more likely to be an older man and a younger woman.

Many men might think that the obvious answer is “because older men are more attractive than older women” but I would actually argue that’s not the case. Many age-gap relationships (of, say, fifteen years) are built on genuine attraction. But others—the really outrageous ones, the billionaire on his sixth wife or 80-year old rockstar with his Gen Z girlfriend—are more transactional. The man is providing money and status to the woman, who is benefitting from that in exchange for sex and perhaps doing a great job of making it seem like she’s genuinely physically attracted. I’m not judging, by the way! Have at it as long as everyone is consenting! But there’s a huge difference between the relationship that might exist between a fifty-five-year-old man and a forty-year-old woman, where there is genuine attraction in both directions, and that same relationship if the woman is twenty, especially considering women are typically most attracted to men around their own age. Let’s not forget the sacred graph of OKCupid:

Of course, outliers exist. But this isn’t about the outliers. This is about why, on the whole, we see older wealthy men with young girlfriends and not the reverse nearly as often. Because I’m sure someone will point this out too, the reverse of that infamous chart is that men, no matter how old they get, consistently rate women in their twenties as being the best-looking. But that’s hardly discordant with what I’m trying to say here, at worst it’s irrelevant, and you’ll see why.

I decided to do my very own unscientific poll. I asked my followers on Twitter if they would be open to a transactional sexual relationship with someone twenty-five years their senior. And what do you know: men were more likely to be open to it than women were.

I upped the ante. What about if it was 35 years? Men and women were both roughly as uninterested in this one.

Now let’s take money out of the equation. What about a regular, everyday age gap relationship that isn’t explicitly a sugar baby arrangement, and the gap is more realistic? Not surprisingly, this option was far more appealing than both of the previous options. However, men were more interested in this scenario than women, which flies directly in the face of the real-world statistics showing that this relationship actually often involves a younger woman, not a younger man:

And now, the poll that confirms my hypothesis. Flipping the script, how open are you to being the older person in the relationship? Would you be open to dating someone 15-20 years younger?

Unsurprisingly, men were pretty open to this idea! But women were overwhelmingly uninterested. This is the first scenario I posed in which the difference between men and women was significant:

And there we have it. Older wealthy women are not unattractive or unappealing to young men. If anything, young men are more interested in those arrangements than young women! But you know what older women are? NOT INTERESTED.

That’s right. Older women are not the rejects of the dating pool—they’re the ones doing the rejection. While there might be an occasional cougar out there, showing some leg at the yacht club and making eyes at the bright-eyed towelboy, the vast majority of older women simply do not want this kind of arrangement, even if it’s not explicitly transactional.

This doesn’t mean that a woman in her sixties is every young man’s first choice. Only that the demand for a wealthy sugar mama, or even a not-wealthy cougar girlfriend, outweighs the supply.

I know what you’re thinking: CHH, how can that be true? Time and time again, men express their preference for younger women! Why would anyone want an older girlfriend?