Why women should gamble on dating apps and pick the hottest men | Nichi Hodgson

Throughout the history of dating, it’s been a truth universally acknowledged that a smart woman trades up socioeconomically but down when it comes to youth and looks – to ensure that the gentleman in question remains forever “grateful” to secure such a “prize”. And let’s face it, before the Married Women’s Property Act of 1870 right up until women could sign for their own mortgages in 1975), it was a pretty useful, if depressing, piece of advice – a trade of as the LSE academic Catherine Hakim has called it.