Anonymous wrote:I am a divorced dad, 51. Over the past couple of years I have dated a lot, and covered ages 22-53. While the 22- and 23-year-olds were fun, and I really liked a couple of the 40-year-olds, the two who stole my heart were 48 and 50. Smart, accomplished, beautiful, sexy as hell. I just think about either one of those women and I'm physically excited.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like men and society prize women for a very short period of their life. Women's physical beauty starts to bloom at around 16, blossoms at around 18-22 and then stays slowly decreases until we hit 30. Then all of a sudden that youthful glow is gone. The moment we turn 30 and start to look like "women" and not girls, we are invisible to society.
How should we deal?
As women have dealt with it for as long as we can remember. Use that physical beauty to marry a rich man.
Its stressful though. We're extraordinarily beautiful and desirable for say 6 years (16 - 22). From 16-19 we're too young to even think of marrying. 19-22 we're in college, partying, figuring life out.
We graduate at 22-24. Then we're trying to find work and establish ourselves. Many women do not even think of marriage or serious relationships at this time...when we start to think of marriage at say, 25, we have our most beautiful years behind us and the next 4 years (26-29) we are all competing with each other to find the most eligible man to marry whole our looks are on a steady decline.
Not many survive this stage and come out with a rich, stable, marriage minded man. Those who do are lucky.
I completely disagree. For women with advanced degrees and careers, we peak later in terms of being marriage material.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I look and feel better now at 52. Am happy to find men my age to date that find me attractive.
Serious question, have you experienced menopause and do you still have a sex drive? I'm a 50 year-old man who still feels like a teenage boy, and I wonder about the sexual aspect of dating women my own age or older.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It seems like men and society prize women for a very short period of their life. Women's physical beauty starts to bloom at around 16, blossoms at around 18-22 and then stays slowly decreases until we hit 30. Then all of a sudden that youthful glow is gone. The moment we turn 30 and start to look like "women" and not girls, we are invisible to society.
How should we deal?
As women have dealt with it for as long as we can remember. Use that physical beauty to marry a rich man.
Its stressful though. We're extraordinarily beautiful and desirable for say 6 years (16 - 22). From 16-19 we're too young to even think of marrying. 19-22 we're in college, partying, figuring life out.
We graduate at 22-24. Then we're trying to find work and establish ourselves. Many women do not even think of marriage or serious relationships at this time...when we start to think of marriage at say, 25, we have our most beautiful years behind us and the next 4 years (26-29) we are all competing with each other to find the most eligible man to marry whole our looks are on a steady decline.
Not many survive this stage and come out with a rich, stable, marriage minded man. Those who do are lucky.
Anonymous wrote:It seems like men and society prize women for a very short period of their life. Women's physical beauty starts to bloom at around 16, blossoms at around 18-22 and then stays slowly decreases until we hit 30. Then all of a sudden that youthful glow is gone. The moment we turn 30 and start to look like "women" and not girls, we are invisible to society.
How should we deal?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Older women are hot. Older men, less so.
If you look at any ranking, like People's sexiest men and women, and so on.. the average age of the men on that list is a lot higher than the average age of the women on that list.
About half of the last 10 men on the list have been 40+:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_(magazine)
compared to 2 women in the last 12 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)#Sexiest_Woman_Alive