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Women's neoteny steeply declines in their twenties such that women's rate of aging is faster.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23878</ref> A tentyfive year old woman will already have a less neotenous facial fat distribution and hence appear less sexually attractive than an eighteen year old woman. | Women's neoteny steeply declines in their twenties such that women's rate of aging is faster.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23878</ref> A tentyfive year old woman will already have a less neotenous facial fat distribution and hence appear less sexually attractive than an eighteen year old woman. | ||
== Evolution of female neoteny == | |||
Men's attraction to neoteny and hence women's selection for neoteny may stem from the fact that men have been providers of resources and want to minimize the chances of investing in someone else's offspring (cuckoldry). Childish and submissive women are easier to control. Gowaty (1992:231-40) writes: | |||
{{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub</ref>}} | |||
== Artificial juvenilization == | == Artificial juvenilization == | ||