# Is the MILF/Cougar thing generational? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 20, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380 "2011-03-20T18:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheWhoToTheWhatNow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@TheWhoToTheWhatNow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheWhoToTheWhatNow)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/21 "2011-03-21T23:48:52Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > I think this may be part of the problem. Too often people slap the label ‘cougar’ on any woman who’s not dating someone her age or older (hell, my friend’s fiancé is 16 months younger than her and people call him her ‘toy boy’). No leopard print dresses, crying into martinis, or other half-baked clichés necessary. Ya, a woman who’s just older and happens to be dating a younger man is just a normal person. The whole age debate is silly in general, people click with whoever they click with. Stiffler’s Mom and Mrs. Robinson were both seducers/predatory/etc. so I’m assuming my definition of cougar is the one the OP was expecting the thread to go by. 🙂 - TWTTWN ---
**Author:** ![Jared4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@Jared4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jared4)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/22 "2011-03-22T05:34:13Z")
I think whoever said sex is more mainstream. That and then American Pie popularizing “MILF.” I remember telling my friends that this one lady was sexy and they were telling me that’s gross because she was older. Now everyone is talking about getting with older women. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/23 "2011-03-22T13:48:40Z")
> [@Jared4](#): > > I think whoever said sex is more mainstream. That and then American Pie popularizing “MILF.” > > I remember telling my friends that this one lady was sexy and they were telling me that’s gross because she was older. Now everyone is talking about getting with older women. The internet is for porn. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/24 "2011-03-22T14:48:21Z")
Read the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” [http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2383/pg2383.html](http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2383/pg2383.html) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/25 "2011-03-22T16:25:18Z")
That’s what I said, Celt. It wasn’t so long ago that the view of women was as incessant sexual predators, tempting men to ruin. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/26 "2011-03-22T16:39:13Z")
Sorry E - I missed that completely! :smack: Must have scroll-skipped it . . . Oh, well, great minds and all . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380/27 "2011-03-22T18:39:44Z")
A-yep. Wasn’t till the Victorian era, really, that the classic cougar was slain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-milf-cougar-thing-generational/575380.md?page=1)