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- There's a reason young women date young men and why your May/December theory falls apart. When I was in my 20s and had "older" guys hitting on me (when I was that age, 40 to me was really old), it really didn't matter to me what their bank account was like. Because when you're in your 20s male or female, your libido is pretty high and just like you want the female hotties now, I wanted a male hottie then. And I didn't think a 40-year old man was really going to cut it sexually. I didn't give them the time of day for that reason.
Now that I'm in my 40s I have 60 year olds hitting on me. Do you think that looks at all interesting to me?
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Your thinking of a 20 year age difference. If the guy is 40, and ready to settle down, he would try and find a 28-35 yr old. Not a 20 year old. And more likely he would be 35-40. Then the age difference is a bit more realistic. A guy can still throw a basketall around with his ten year old daughter at 50 years of age. I will see if I can dig up the exact source of the statistic and post it here. I was not so much advocating that a man should marry somone young enough to be his daughter, but that the majority of men simply marry too young and "cash out" too early. Before they are "ready". And that the reason this happens is from outside pressures, often from their partner, when they are in their mid to late 20s.
