Her peers (guys in their early twenties) form the biggest component, and the numbers slope off rapidly—thirty-year-old men, for example, make up only a small part. They are less likely to actually contact someone so young, despite their privately expressed interest, and in addition many men have already partnered off by that age. By the time the woman is fifty, this is who’s left (and still interested), presented on the same scale. It’s Bridget Jones in charts.
