Here's why it doesn't work: gender ratio. In the younger of people up to 30, the males outnumber the females by five to 20 times (source Shyness & Love, Dr. B. Gilmartin). That is mainly because many men seek their partners significantly younger than themselves only makes matters worse (like having the men between 20 and 40 get the women between 18 and 30). So there's more lonely men that consider a dating service than women. In a try to defuse this problem many dating organisations require the minimum age of participating men to higher (21 or 24 for instance) than those of women (18) and have the service being more expensive for men than for women. In the upper age range it's the other way around. There is a surplus in women. |