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| Keywords: Half-age-plus-seven-relationship-rule.svg Graph of the Half-age-plus-seven rule never date anyone under half your age plus 7 which claims to dictate what age disparity between two people is acceptable in dating/romantic/intimate relationships during the late 20th century / early 21st century called the Standard creepiness rule in http //xkcd com/314/ the xkcd webcomic According to this rule the age of the younger person should not be less than half the age of the older person plus seven years so that for example no one older than 65 should be in a relationship with anyone younger than 39 and a half no one older than 22 should be in a relationship with anyone younger than 18 and no one under 14 years of age should be in a relationship at all From another point of view the chart can be interpreted as saying that there should not be an age disparity of as much as five years unless the younger person has an age of 19 or more a ten-year disparity should exist only if the younger person has an age of 24 or more and a twenty-year disparity should occur only if the younger person has an age of 34 or more And people only slightly older than 14 should only be involved with those almost exactly the same age as themselves To read the chart go to the position along the x-axis which corresponds to your age and the green range between the black and red lines directly above that position corresponds to the range of your partner's ages which is deemed acceptable by the rule For convenience the line representing x y is also shown in blue The area between the blue and red lines shows where you are the older partner in the half-age-plus-seven calculation while the area between the black and blue lines shows where you are the younger partner In its first known appearances in the http //www gutenberg org/ebooks/33285 book Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell The little shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox and the http //archive org/details/moonisblueapla00herb 1951 play The Moon is Blue by F Hugh Herbert it's stated or implied that at the beginning of a relationship or marriage the woman's age is supposed to be half the man's age plus seven which gives a different asymmetrical interpretation to the rule Similarly in his autobiography George Arnold Escher 1843-1939 father of famous artist M C Escher claimed that when he was looking for a wife ca 1880 he thought that the ideal ages for husband and wife at marriage would be if the woman's age was half the husband's age plus 10 https //web archive org/web/20051215202425/http //www notatu-dignum com/030223 htm Self-made graphic with layout partially influenced by the PD image en image Half Plus Seven Graph 2 JPG uploaded to en wikipedia on 5 May 2008 by en User Ccdelt Text was converted to paths to improve display unconverted the file would have been only 5kb 2009 AnonMoos File Half Your Age Plus Seven Graph JPG Line charts Human sexuality SVG charts in English | ||||
