(Biderman went on to claim that the ratio reached 1:1 for the under thirties).

That seemed to prove little deterrent for a legion of lustful men around the globe.

Any choice of groupings is at least somewhat arbitrary and could probably be criticized, but short of doing a separate count for each and every age this seemed like a good choice.

The ratios ranged from a high of 3.43:1 (age 30-34) to a low of 0.86:1 (age 45-49), though varied from evening to evening for those age groups.

Having read in several places about skewed Male: Female sex ratios on online dating sites, i thought I’d do a little experiment and try counting them myself.

But Slater doesn't offer up much hard evidence that monogamy is actually becoming passe in this country, other than to point out that divorce rates have increased -- an oversimplification of what's happened in the past few decades.And one thing that should be worrisome for straight men is the size of their disadvantage in the market.Josh Fischer is the Director of Product Insights at What does this mean?Analysis of the Ashley Madison data set produced by hackers known as The Impact Team suggests that the amount of women on the site may in fact have been minuscule.Gizmodo writer Annalee Newitz studied the data and found a series of anomalies in the genesis of male and female accounts, which suggested that the vast majority of female accounts – already in the minority – were in fact fake.Overall, the data for the different dates all show a similar pattern with the sex ratio most highly skewed in the late 20’s and early 30’s, being fairly even in the 40’s and then increasing a bit in the 50’s.Here’s the actual data and graphs for the four data sets. if you add other known factors such as womens height requirement, age limitations etc.