This, and for more reasons than just what panache45 noted. Mrs. Guest and I enjoy the same age difference as the panaches.
Personally, I spend too much time around teenagers to really be able to be attracted to them any more. I see firsthand just how immature they are on a daily basis, and it’s left an impression on me. But that doesn’t mean that it’s skeevy to appreciate them, just that I don’t.
EDIT: To be clear, that’s just for appreciating them. Acting on that appreciation, definitely skeevy.
If they’re old enough to work full time, make all their own medical decisions, vote, live on their own, and (in most countries outside the US) drink alcohol, I don’t think it’s ‘skeevy’.
So everyone over 40 or so who reads *Playboy *or *Penthouse *must really just be reading for the articles?
I don’t find it inherently disgusting.
Good-looking, charismatic older guy with a young girl who adores him? No problem.
OTOH I think it is sad, and skeevy, when you see older guys who are trying very hard to get young girls in a predatory way that makes everyone uncomfortable.
It’s sad because they’ve reached a later point in their life and still have a poor understanding of how people hook up. Some idea that they can wear girls down and not understanding the signals the girl is giving, that dating them is out of the question.
For me, I’m lucky that I’m generally attracted to women close to my own age, and pay younger women no heed. However, in the event that a girl turns out to be older than her appearance would suggest, or a young girl takes an interest in me, something clicks in my mind and I’m allowed to notice she’s hot 
Not sure what you mean. It makes sense, in a “selfish gene” way, for men to continue to find young women physically attractive through their whole lives.
Women too, to a lesser extent.
Being attracted and acting on it are two very different things. One you can’t control and one you can.
25; she turns 26 in August.
For the record, I’m 51, I think she’s a total hottie, and I don’t feel badly about that. (Nor does it bother my wife. 
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I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. I do think its kind of silly that my mid
50’s Father is dating a 27 year old, a few years younger than me, nearly 10 years younger than my older sister. It kind of makes me sigh on the inside when I see them out and she tries to talk down to me like I’m younger than her or something when I’m not only older but married with kids and a house, things that she doesn’t have and ergo isn’t really as experienced in life as I am. I think its silly but its pretty clear my Dad is only in it for the youth factor, and she for the money being spent on her by him. It’s definitely skeevy on a lot of levels, but I’m the live and let live type, I don’t hold it against him or even her.
Reminds me of what Seinfeld said about looking at cleavage (45sec video): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbsmbCWUNEE
About the topic of older person dating a younger person, in previous discussions here some have suggested a formula determining how young is too young. Does anyone have that?
Some time back I was out of town for work. At the end of the day we were meeting a coworker at a bar. A couple of young girls were there and they looked attractive, but when I found out they’d just graduated college and realized my daughter had just graduated too, I felt a little skeeved out by the thoughts I’d been having.
ETA: I’m in my 50s.
He waits until he is 40, has a younger wife, a little common sense, a well-established carer, and can afford to raise them.
Cool. What does he do in the meantime?
Yeah, because we can find better porn for free on the net. 
I’m 64 and I haven’t stopped looking. My father-in-law is over 100 and I don’t think he has either. When he was 80 or 85 he’s call me wondering how the porn wallpaper got on his computer.
Attractive things are nice to look at.
Trying to wear girls / women down so they’ll go out with you is inappropriate no matter what your age, or theirs.
I’d also guess the wearing down strategy is more often employed by younger men than older ones, because of the maturity thing.
Of course most stupid behaviours are going to be more common in the young than the old.
But there’s a specific kind of behaviour I’m thinking of, and I see it more often in older guys than younger guys. A kind of focusing on a shy / nervous girl, being aware that she’s uncomfortable and consciously trying to wear her down. Perhaps it works sometimes, but I’ve only seen/heard instances where it upsets and annoys.
Maybe the dynamic is slightly skewed here as I live in Shanghai and in the set of {older guys I’ve seen trying to pick up young girls} it’s disproportionately white guys trying to get asian girls, and white, older guys in Shanghai may not be a very representative group. But then I never made any claim about the prevalence of this approach.
Actually, on thinking about it, I’ll drop this particular tangent.
If a particular skeevy behaviour was relevant to the question of whether older people finding much younger people attractive is disgusting, then we’d have to say young guys finding young girls attractive is more disgusting, because there is no shortage of skeevy stuff some young guys do. (probably I was one of them :()
I’m in my 50s and was recently telling a 30-something coworker that one great thing about getting older is that my radar finds more lovely ladies to admire. Beauty abounds. My radar now finds lovely ladies in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, whereas when I was in my 20s my radar only found lovely ladies in their 20s and 30s. Anyone older than about 50, I didn’t really notice them unless it was a Joan Collins or Sophia Loren type, otherwise while walking around my radar just wasn’t tuned to that age. It is now, certainly.
So as I’ve gotten older has my radar gotten better? Or have my standards dropped? Or maybe a little of both?
There does seem to be a sort of threshold for a lot of men. I’ve reached a point where celebrities in their 20s, I just think “cute kid.”
I was talking to a guy I know when his eyes glazed over, his jaw dropped, and he just stared over my shoulder. I turned around, and there was my 15 year old daughter walking up to say hi. Ten years have passed and I stil think of him as a creepy dude.