Both men and women prefer younger partners, study finds

Even though women tend to say they prefer older men they scored younger men as more desirable, research shows

Researchers have challenged the idea that women prefer men who are older than them after finding precisely the opposite in thousands of women who went on blind dates.

Quizzed after their brief encounters, both men and women tended to rate younger dates as more desirable future partners, suggesting men do not have a monopoly on putting a premium on youth.