Skin and wrinkling gives a cue to her age – men looking for want to make sure she’s not at the tail end of the fertility window.

Just as I am fully aware that with each passing year, I become less attractive to the men in my peer group, who have plenty of younger, more fertile women to pick from.

Part of the explanation is that a woman has not truly finished her reproductive work until her last child has reached an age at which he can fend for himself.