The answer is to be found in Lapland, it seems.

Or was that Lapdanceland?

Telegraph

Now Dr Samuli Helle, University of Turku, has found the answer with the help of a study of the nomadic Sami, the “reindeer people” of Finland.

Finnish parish records from the 17th to 19th century on three Sami populations, who depended on reindeer herding, fishing and hunting for their livelihood, make it possible for researchers to disentangle the effects of medical progress on the number and life span of Sami men who married only once.

What they found was that the men maximized their “evolutionary fitness” – ability to pass on their genes to future generations – by marrying women who were 14.6 years younger, and vice versa.

“Those men had the highest number of offspring surviving to adulthood,” said Dr Helle, who did his study with Drs Virpi Lummaa of the University of Sheffield and Jukka Jokela of the ETH in Zurich.

“Young Sami women were the most fertile and had the highest reproductive value, whereas older Sami men had acquired enough skills needed for successful hunting, fishing and reindeer herding and, most importantly, wealth to be good providers for the progeny and thus desirable mates,” they conclude.

Yeah, that’s the answer. [/sarcasm]

Two posts by Rachel Lucas [old friend who just returned to posting] and Cassy Fiano at Wizbang on the subject of young women today.

They both qualify as young women, so they have the chickenhawk advantage. I’m an older man, barred from most looking or touching, so all I have are opinions. And I agree with Rachel and Cassy.

My lovely neices were raised in a stable, Catholic household, with a great mix of both freedom and responsibility. The eldest has a tattoo. Gulp!

The young women that I see while working, or on the street during working hours, need the mentoring of an older career woman. The Superman motif thong that I saw on a secretary last year, through no fault of my own, was not right. It just wasn’t. Butt cracks aren’t just for plumbers any more, sadly.

I really can’t think of a thing that being free to drink to excess and screw anyone I want ever did for me. I am not a better person for it, richer, further ahead in my career or happier. Indeed, I look at my twenties with profound regret, having wasted a decade not caring about anything or anyone.

Feminism means that young women have the right to be just as shallow, witless, and pointless as young men. That’s a damn shame.

So, this “innocent” fifteen year old thinks she has this old dude, well, orally satisfying her. She’s shocked to find out, after the dude is taken to jail, that he was a she. Ugly old man she could handle. Old old woman, no way.

WRCB

What a story from the Hamilton County, Tennessee courts building; a man charged with molesting a teen, is actually a woman!

In court today, Prosecutors revealed that 42 year old Alexander Cross is actually a woman. Her given name is Elaine Cross, she legally changed it to Alexander. How did prosecutors find out Cross was a woman? After she had been in the Hamilton County jail for 10 days in January, someone noticed she was actually a female while she was taking a shower. She was immediately moved to female isolation.

According to news reports, Cross was charged with performing oral sex on a 15 year old victim. And prosecutors said today, that the victim fell in love with Cross, thinking she was a he. The young girl was reportedly stunned to find out Cross was a woman.

Judge Rebecca Stern approved a plea agreement today. One charge was dismissed, and Cross pleaded guilty to felony statutory rape. She received a two year prison sentence, all of it suspended, and will be put on unsupervised probation for six years. She also has to register as a sex offender. Judge Stern also said she must change her driver’s license so that it lists her as a female, not a male.

AP vis SFgate

Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli city.

Many of the attendees said they were sad that the only place safe enough to hold a conference for gay Arab women was in a Jewish area of Haifa, which has a mixed Arab-Jewish population. Israel’s Jewish majority is generally tolerant of homosexuality

“This conference is being held, somehow, in exile, even though it’s our country,” said Yussef Abu Warda, a playwright.

Driven deep underground for the most part, only 10 to 20 Arab lesbians attended the conference, organizers said. Most blended in with Israeli lesbians and heterosexual Arab female supporters without making their presence known.

“We’d like all women to come out of the closet — that’s our role. We work for them,” said Samira, 31, a conference organizer who came with her Jewish Israeli girlfriend. Samira agreed to be identified only by her first name for fear of reprisals.

After reading the article, you may be reassured about your mother’s sex life. It’s not about that.

Democrat & Chronicle article