Sex Differences in Sexual Attraction for Aesthetics, Resources and Personality Across Age

Given that sexual attraction is a key driver of human mate choice and reproduction, we descriptively assess relative sex differences in the level of attraction individuals expect in the aesthetic, resource, and personality characteristics of potential mates. As a novelty we explore how male and female sexual attractiveness preference changes across age, using a dataset comprising online, cross-sectional survey data for over 7,000 respondents across a broad age distribution of individuals between 18 and 65 years.