Is something it does for food and validation....

Question is....How do you validate someone for dating someone much older then them. If you do it's pointless anyway, because when someone gets what they want...they give up doing the trick. Getting people together would end up in heartbreak for the other party if you give the trick doer the doggy treat and they are fulfilled.

See ya later grandma/grandpa....or...WOOF WOOF!!

If it has a choice betweeen starvation, no sex(extinction), or walking on it's hind legs all the time it will probably walk on it's hind legs thus demonstrating how incompetent dogs are at walking.

Kind of like getting a dog to walk on it's hind legs. The real question is why would it want to?

who made up that word?

anyway, aside from, as suggested, the sexual politics of a woman getting to "enjoy" what had previously been the prerogative of the dominant gender, there's another advantage: younger men are trivially easy to seduce. Fish in a really small barrel. Like zero risk of rejection.

That's true, dick, but it's not the whole truth. Maybe we can split the concepts of "beauty" and "attractiveness?" Physical beauty with nothing behind it isn't very attractive to me (then again, I'm a chick, may be different for men.) On the other hand, there was a woman in my "set," (ex-gf of my husband as a matter of fact), whose beauty all the men raved about, while all the women listened gape-jawed, since she was as plain as a bucket of mud. Not one of us would have traded our looks for hers, much as we envied the attention she got. The qualities men are attracted to are not limited to physical beauty, though you can certainly attract attention if you're at the far end of the bell curve beauty-wise.

this is frequently said but it isn't true, or at any rate is not the whole truth. There are a lot of aspects of beauty and attraction which are objective, at least in the sense that they are shared among an overwhelming percentage of humanity.

Dick, if you are not careful you might get the nick name Limp.

I have news for you; beauty, and your extension of beauty to sexiness, is in the eye of the beholder. Just because you have blinders on, doesn’t mean the rest of us do.

Yeah, if you are bi-sexual.

I don’t consider heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bi-sexuality as sexual preference, but rather as sexual orientation. I’m oriented towards women, and I don’t form a sexual preference based on a human characteristic.

this is actually pretty unlikely, whatever she looks like now she looked a LOT BETTER 20 or 30 years ago, besides if twenty something women are really having trouble competing they are doing an EXCELLENT job of hiding all the evidence.

Like gender you mean? Rest assured no straight male chooses to be straight when he sees how much action for so little work that any male who is or can go gay gets. It's entirely NOT a matter of conscious choice.

I don't understood discriminating sexually, or why anyone would state a sexual preference, or bias, based on a human characteristic. When it comes to sex, I am an equal opportunity patron (not with cash, but I have no problem with that either). Old or young (at least older than the age of consent) doesn't bother me at all, and I don't discriminate based of petty factors such as age (except those under the age of 18), weight, height, race, color, creed, back ground, religious belief, or social standing/status. If a woman is not carrying a contagious disease, has a fully functional brain, and isn't under the influence of alcohol or some other drug, then god(dess) gave her talents, qualities, and more than one uniqueness of some kind that are certain to be pleasurable to experience regardless of how she looks (and even if she does have an STD, there are always condoms).

Life is too short not to see the beauty in everyone, and anyone who builds a wall of bias is denying themselves the beauty of what god(dess) created. Saying you won't have anything to do sexually with a certain group of people based on a human quality, is like saying you don't approve of god(dess)'s buffet. Personally if I could, and if I weren't married, I would try to sample the entire buffet. I tasted a fair amount of that buffet, before I met my wife, and I can say it all tasted good.

If people were prepared to familiarize themselves with the facts of biology regarding sex and the differences between men and women 40 years of feminism would have to be rethought. Interestingly enough, 40 years ago the concept of the androgynous brain was (somewhat)scientifically credible. It's not a coincidence that even though this ceased to be true 30 years ago and the mountain of evidence has piled higher and higher ever since that this "lack of familiarity" with the facts of life persists.

As much as I enjoy reading Broadsheet, I have to say that I think that the utter disbelief and disapproving finger-wagging displayed in the majority of the posts would disappear if the authors would only familiarize themselves with some of the recent work on sex and evolution. Maybe it is just because I am an anthropology graduate student learning about this stuff, but the obvious question in my opinion isn't why guys would be less attracted to older women (which evolutionarily makes sense if the average life expectancy over the past two million years probably hovers around 40 years or so. It is why men would choose to severely decrease their chances of reproductive success at all.

Click on my name to get to a book written by one of my professors (named Dr. Puts of all things). I highly recommend that all the Salon employees as well as commenters buy it since it is very easy to read and gives a very firm foundation in evolutionary theory along the way.

By the way, I'm engaged to an older(by 2 years)woman. I have to say that her encroaching 30th birthday is breathing down her neck, and subsequently my own.