Controversial social analyst Reno Omokri has kindled debate with his recent advice on age gap in relationships.
He addressed the features that men look at while choosing a life partner.
Reno, in the statement, highlighted the importance of a healthy age difference between monogamous couples.
Omokri began by urging men with a strong libido not to marry women their own age or a few years younger.
He saved his greatest admonition for those considering marrying an older woman.
Omokri’s main claim revolves around the permanency of male libido as opposed to the natural fall of female libido with age.
He stated: “You, as a man, will retain your libido into your eighties and possibly nineties if God spares your life. But women do not retain theirs that long.” This fundamental difference, he argued, could pose challenges in a monogamous marriage when a wife’s libido diminishes, but her husband’s remains robust.
Omokri emphasised the possible repercussions of such an imbalance, such as the desire to seek for intimacy outside of the marriage.
He questioned: “What are you going to do? Start disturbing Unilag girls?”
“If you are a man with a healthy libido, it is risky to marry a woman who is of the same age as you. It is also risky, but less so, to marry a woman who is just a few years younger than you. However, IF you plan on a monogamous marriage, then it will be disastrous to marry a lady who is older than you. If you both agree that you can be polygamous, then it is not a problem. You say you are in love? Listen, love cannot control your libido. You, as a man will retain your libido into your eighties and possibly nineties if God spares your life. But women do not retain theirs that long. I do not think it is fair.
“But gender libido imbalance is a fact of life. So, if you marry a woman who is your age mate or older than you, and she loses her libido after menopause, but you retain yours, what are you going to do? Start disturbing Unilag girls? That is why there should be a healthy age gap between husband and wife for a viable marriage,” he said.