Yes, craigslist was more like the old days of the internet. Match.com is more… I guess the word is conformist. You have to pay to get any response. That said, I think the OP could find a match on there easily.
If 73 is your birth year you ain’t to old for tinder.
Thing about (hetero) OLD is the men (or at least a big enough slice of them) swipe right/ message indiscriminately.
How dare the puritans be against sex trafficking!
How dare the puritans use the excuse of sex trafficking to close down volunteerism.