Well being that beach season is a few short months away, and I still have a few years of youth left to revel in – what’s the best way to judge the age of a girl, especially in a fashion and makeup neutral place such as the beach?
Now I’ve noticed that once women are out of their teens the backs of their hands is a relatively good indicator, and one of my boys claims that the bootie is the best indicator. But then that same friend got chased down the beach last summer by a 14yr old’s drunken dad, sssooooo… :rolleyes:
Any ideas as to how? Girls with older siblings can put up a pretty good verbal maturity front, and sometimes you don’t have time to get intimately acquainted before you can step up to the plate, any foolproof tricks to judging a female’s age, short of IDing the lass?
I’ve heard some say that you can tell (to some degree) how really young a girl is by looking at her ankles and that somehow there is a distinct change between 13-16 and 18-20 as to the shape of the ankle.
I can’t you just look at them for a while? If you pay attention, it should be easy to tell women who are 20+yo. Stop looking at their boobies, I’m talking about their body language. Well… except for those who are giggly and acting like 14 yos, but you don’t really want to mess with those ones either.
Honestly, if you can’t tell 14-yo girls from adults on the beach then you have a problem, and don’t be suprised if one of these kids dad’s comes after you. I would do the same.
Because I’m not a 30-40yr old man!!! I’m freaking 20!! And the difference between a 14yr old and an 18yr old is becoming a damn thin line in some cases. I’ve met girls who appeared to me, older siblings, and parents to be 18, but who were really 14. Thank goodness her older sister was there to clue me in, coulda been trouble.
Watching the body language does give some clues, but younger girls who spend time around older girls (i.e. siblings) can do a damn good job of mimicking them. Any other ideas like the above ankle clue??
Sorry - I thought “my boys” meant your sons. If you had a son old enough to be checkig out bootie then that would make you in your 30s / 40s. My mistake.
Ask her where she goes to school. If she answers with a high school, throw her back. Even if she’s 18 and in HS it’s not worth the aggravation. Go check the threads on older women over in MPSIMS. Maybe you can learn something.
I don’t know if there is a real physical indicator. Remember Traci Lords? She was 13 when she started her porn career. Nobody – not the producers, not her costars, not the fans who watched her movies – caught on to how young she was. Seems to me if there were some kind of definitive physical indicator – or even something close to being a physical indicator – Traci would have been caught. And said indicator would be widely known, because I’m sure you’re not the only young guy with the problem of telling the legals from the jailbait
Just 2 days ago a tall, gorgeous woman came into my store. My 33 year old boss made a comment about her. After he left I realized she was about 14 years old. These were my clues:
-she was wearing flipflops with her sundress instead of sexy shoes
-her ass was very high up. Not too many women in their 20s still have asses that high and hips as narrow as hers without being bony at the same time and she wasn’t bony
-her skin was suspiciously smooth and when she took off her sunglasses I could see she had no make up on
-she fiddled around in certain way that made me think of a kid
-she was awkward in her speech. She asked me a bunch of questions about tween novels
-she met up with a 40ish woman who was very tall which made me think it was her mom even though the 40ish woman was white and the girl was pretty dark skinned. But seeing them together I put it all together.
I think it would be way easier to figure out her age if we were at the beach because she’d be with a group of girls her own age and some of them would be shorter and more obviously kids.
The whole thing of my boss ogling her got me a bit uncomfortable though. I can hardly blame him because I thought she was older too but I couldn’t stop thinking about how tough it must be for her parents to keep her safe from older men!
When I was about 35 I asked a 14 year old out. I had met her in the company of her cousin, a friend of mine, in a bar. She was drinking a margarita and was wearing what I’d describe as a young professional outfit - pantsuit, heels, hair in a permanent, light makeup. When talk turned to what we did, she told me she was going to school in Nacodoches. Well, there is a State University there.
I took her to be about 25. When I asked her if she’d like to have dinner with me next week, she said she’d have to see if that would work. So, she didn’t look like a kid (both physically and in dress), she didn’t act like a kid and I met her in an environment where you don’t expect to be meeting kids.
Owing to her cousin being a friend, I was soon informed of the situation. Kinda blew my mind.
I met her dad later that evening. Nice guy - he was my age.
samarm, no problem, “boys” is slang these days for “guy friends” but it connotates a close friendship. There is a small but growing contingent of teens who can pull off being 18 but really be quite a few years shy, and conceivably if she has older siblings she can mimic older speech and behavior pretty well.
The ankle thing is totally new to me so I’ll start trying to get that down, and I’ve def noticed the whole “perkiness” quality being unique to young girls, but then if you look on the cover of some of the women’s fitness magazines (Shape, Self) it sorta looks like they’ve taken the head of a goregeous 20-something and pasted it on top of a fit teen, really fit 20+ year olds sorta have the bodies of teenagers (at least on magazines).
Well… maybe there’s some consolation in that if she pulls it off well enough, and it’s at the beach so I’ll never see her again - I’ll never know.
Well, speaking as a 34 year old male, it’s because they didn’t build 'em like that when I was a teenager. (Good thing too, I’d have died of a combination of sensory overload and friction burns on my palms.) For more discussion on this topic, I refer you to Sofa King’s Pit thread on Britney Spears.