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Treena Orchard, Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University

Age-gap relationships between Millennial women and Gen Z men are on the rise

A still from the film 'The Idea of You' which centers on the story of a relationship between an older woman and younger man. (Prime Video)

Hollywood’s obsession with age hypogamy — relationships between older women and younger men — never gets old. More than 50 years after The Graduate, a film where Mrs. Robinson, an older woman, propositions a young male college graduate, the Netflix rom-com A Family Affair, starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron, has repurposed the same age-gap situationship to drive the plot.

Book cover of I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
‘I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris,’ by Glynnis MacNicol. (Penguin Life)
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