Older men with no sexual interest in women at risk of earlier death
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Strong couples often challenge eachother to improve and maintain themselves. Women culturally do the same within their friendships. Men who enjoy the company of men at the gym do have a similar attitude of cooperative improvement, but many seem to take it so far that it's unsustainable.
In my experience, internal motivation is a limited resource -- it's far easier to encourage, and be encouraged. I hope, for men's sake, that their AI girlfriends can provide some of that, rather than just tell them what they want to hear.
Notice the correlation only worked for men.
I can say with confidence a few of my older family members are only alive because their wives make them eat healthy and discourage illegal and obnoxious behavior!
I am no expert but I believe that libido can be impacted by hormones, etc. so that a lack of libido may be a symptom of deeper biological issues that have, in fine, a negative impact on life expectancy.
Conversely, an active libido may be a 'symptom' of a generally healthy individual.
In my work I’ve run across a lot of internally generated statistics used to model programs and insurance schemes. If you want to bet on misfortune happening to someone, divorced men are sponges for almost any negative outcome.