# Ask the woman who used to be a 19-year-old dating a 36-year-old

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**Created:** [November 1, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-woman-who-used-to-be-a-19-year-old-dating-a-36-year-old/639617 "2012-11-01T21:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-woman-who-used-to-be-a-19-year-old-dating-a-36-year-old/639617/21 "2012-11-03T00:13:05Z")

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Physical attractiveness is important to me, but in the past few years I’ve found men between the ages of 19-20 and about 50 (hey there, George Clooney, and hello to you too, sexy 47-year-old divorced dad and former gymnast who comes to my yoga studio) to be physically attractive. That’s a pretty big age spread. I imagine it will move upward as I age, too. Undeniably there are fewer hot guys over 35 than there are under, but they are out there.

Physical attractiveness isn’t what makes me want to date someone. I’ve met a lot of people I think are cute, I’ve been interested in very few of them as human beings.

Would I seek out a relationship with someone 10+ older than me, intentionally? No. Am I open to dating someone much older than me in the future if they are attractive and compatible? Absolutely.

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