international news _ 13th December, 2006
Moby’s Middle Aged Spread
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
New York electronic star Moby rolled out promotion for his Greatest Hits
compilation to Australia this week with a frank discussion on his
increasingly successful sex life.
“Right now being in my 40s seems great. You're in the best of all these
worlds. You're still relatively young and healthy, but you've had a degree
of success and . . . and you've seen the world,” Moby mused in an interview
with Melbourne newspaper The Age.
"And as weird as this sounds, I've found that the older I've gotten, the
more attractive women have found me,” he declared.
Failing to mention whether he thought his global fame and multi-million
dollar fortune had made much difference he nevertheless blamed poverty for
his leaner romantic times in the early 80s, this week, in an online
reminisce of when he lived in a toilet-less abandoned warehouse in
Stamford, Connecticut.
“The few women I tried to date during this time never seemed too keen on
spending the night in an apartment with no running water in an abandoned
factory in the middle of a crack neighbourhood,” Moby wrote on his always
interesting online journal.
“In hindsight I guess I see their point. At the time I felt kind of hurt,
sort of like: 'love me, love my tiny apartment in the abandoned factory',”
he added.
Moby’s contrasting experiences matched the expectations of US scientist
Martie G Haselton, who in July published a paper on sexual attraction, in
which he said women, as well are typically seeking virile, masculine men,
also pursued others ‘who look as if they have wealth or the ability to
acquire wealth.’
Dr Haselton also warned, however, that playing the field too long is risky,
with those holding out for ultimate dream lovers risking disappointment,
based on the findings of a computer simulation model developed by
evolutionary psychology professors Peter Todd and Geoffrey Miller
“The researchers found that the optimum proportion of possible mates to
‘examine’ before setting your aspirations and making your choice is a mere
9% — so at a party with 100 possible mates, it’s best to study only the
first nine you randomly encounter before you choose. Examining fewer means
you won’t have enough information to make a good choice, examining more
makes it likely you’ll pass the best mate by,” said the Doctor.
“Don’t search indefinitely before choosing,” he advised, “Lest you miss out
on all the good mates or run out of time altogether.” (New Scientist).
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