Thuletide

Visualization of the 1989 study preferred age gap data.

Two replications of the 1989 study confirming that women prefer older men and men prefer younger women. These papers use actual rather than preferred age gaps.

Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32196435/

Couples age discrepancies in a large-scale European sample: Evolutionary and sociocultural perspectives (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12579

Men prefer younger women and women prefer older men (the age gap preferred by women is actually >50% larger than that preferred by men).

Older men seek larger age gaps than younger men.

Wealthier men seek larger age gaps than poorer men.

More attractive men seek larger age gaps than less attractive men.

Some good empirical evidence that wealth, status, and looks can mitigate age-related sexual market value decline — to a degree, at least.

(n = >16,500 for both graphs)

#fertility

Kerry Sheron, 69-year-old patriotic veteran and owner of the "Trump House," was murdered in cold blood by mentally ill libtard, Thomas Caleb Butler.

Sheron's house had previously been vandalized on the 3rd, as per a Facebook video he uploaded - his American flags were torn in half and thrown across the road.

MSM is reporting that Butler somehow got PTSD from being in... the fucking NAVY. How?! The guy was probably insane before he signed up.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/us-news/trump-house-owners-wife-says-theres-no-hope-for-husband-after-attack/

https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/us-news/man-accused-of-beating-trump-house-superfan-has-violent-past-revealed/

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, 92% of Roman cities with ≥5,000 inhabitants were either depopulated (devolving into small towns or settlements) or destroyed.

For cities with ≥10,000 inhabitants, urbanization rates in formerly-Roman territories had still not recovered by the 18th century.

Female height preferences are delusional:

92% of men would accept the model US woman (5'4)

71% of women would accept the modal US man (5'9)

Huge sample size: n=219,000

Tom Homan: "Even though [deportation] numbers are historic, I want more."

https://x.com/derzum_/status/2057198897492082702

When people hit the wall (25-29), their desperation for marriage increases.

#fertility

Genetic studies on the Goths' expansion from South Scandinavia across Eastern Europe:

Wielbark Culture, the initial Gothic expansion into what is now Poland:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-023-03013-9

The Maslomecz Group, a Wielbark population from southeast Poland:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12924530/

Chernyakhov Culture of modern-day Ukraine; multiethnic society dominated by a Gothic elite, home to Scythians, Sarmatians, Thracians, Dacians, early Slavs, etc.:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695

Chernyakhov/Gothic expansion into the Balkans:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.03.709317v2

If you give women testosterone, they become less aggressive and behave more fairly.

If you give women a placebo but they them it's testosterone, they become more aggressive and behave unfairly.

Here are some related posts with studies on testosterone:
https://t.me/thuletide/4772
https://t.me/thuletide/6039
https://t.me/thuletide/8054
https://t.me/thuletide/3444
https://t.me/thuletide/6303

The lottery study preprint has been published:
https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2026/05/01/jhr.0824-13793R2.abstract

#fertility