This is an interesting thread. There is some truth that the ability to meet, court and eventually marry an unladen, prime-aged woman decreases after a certain age, due to the cumulative effects of reduced social contacts (i.e., the only women that you meet in your social circle are the divorced or obese women that could not attract a decent man), age related degradation (which is mainly due to the man getting out of shape, but also to a lesser degree graying, baldness, and optometrics), and to some degree for certain women, the "eww" effect. Also, for a long time in the USA, there was the demographic trend that made suitable young women a rare commodity (which has bottomed out, and now trending in the opposite direction.)
But the thing to remember above all is that there will be an increasingly plentiful supply of "biological clock" women in the market. These will be educated, career women who will hit the magic 3-0, and realize that they really need to find a good man. Such women will not think that they need a man of their own age (they may want such a man as it feels natural, but as they see such men their own age hit on 20 y.o.'s, they will realize that they need to look at men in their 40's (or even higher.) And the beauty of these women is that in large part, they will lose a lot of their pickiness that they used to have when they were 22 (they will far prefer the intelligent, white collar man to the blue collar man.) OK, so for the 50 y.o. man the totally fresh coed may be slipping away, but her mature sister will be available. And such women will know not to play as many games, since they know that per their reduced sexual market value, that they can't AFFORD to do so.
And also, a man who has not had to spend his earnings on raising a family will have been able to save, and would be in a position to retire early (or in my case, semi-retire at age 31), and could go spend long periods of time in foreign countries, where the pickings for women are much better.
Remember the Moslem rule - a man should go for a woman based on the age equation:
M = 2 * W - 7
Therefore a man ages only half as much as a woman.
Of course, not all women will make this transition. All social ages will have the stuck up spinster, and our age will have more than before. The good thing is that spinsterhood is trait that always gets culled out of the gene pool. The spinster of the 1920's did not pass on her ice queen genes, and Secretary of State Condi Rice, or CEO Carla Fiorina, etc. will not as well.
