Older single women are turning to the web to find love - and many of them are after a significantly younger lover.

Date: 2007-04-16

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According to research from online dating service Parship.co.uk, 280,000 women over the age of 45 in the UK are looking for a toyboy, and three per cent of these are after a man more than ten years younger than them.

“Older women don't need to concern themselves with life-changing decisions. They've raised their children who have probably flown the nest together with their husband. Their only concern is their pleasure – and not whether their new boyfriend will pay the gas bill,” said psychiatrist Dr Victoria Lukats.

According to the study, women who live in the Home Counties, Wiltshire and Dorset are twice more likely to date a man five to ten years younger than they are, where as women from Glasgow and Yorkshire are the least likely.

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