# Old Dopers: Age gap of sexual attraction.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 30, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367 "2011-06-30T10:18:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367/101 "2013-04-03T05:13:26Z")

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> [@April\_R](#):
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> a 16 year old should not be dating a 13 year old. Sorry, I can’t support that. Also, you shouldn’t be dating any one out of high school.
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> But, my opinion is colored by being a parent, so you can just dismiss me as a fuddy duddy

I agree, I was talking about attraction rather than somebody I’d actually have a realistic chance of dating without somebody getting arrested (which as you say would be pretty much restricted to high school girls).

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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367/102 "2013-04-03T07:16:54Z")

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> [@Tollhouse](#):
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> I guess people have to say something to make it easier on their conscience about molesting a child…dress it up anyway you want, a senior age man having sex with a child is disgusting and criminal…besides the risk factor of men like this who escalate into harming or murdering the child . There was a case some yrs.back Samantha Runion a six yr old girl was raped and.murdered by some scumbag who had a few years prior molested an adolescent girl.

I actually know the mother and stepbrother of Samantha Runion actually and the accounts of the case I’ve read are indeed disgusting and disturbing.

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**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367/103 "2013-04-03T08:57:23Z")

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I’m 31. I’d say 10 years younger to 15 years older is in my “attraction range”. As far as actual relationships go, I probably wouldn’t be with anyone more than a couple years younger than myself, just because I remember all the growing up and changing that I did between 20 and 30, and I assume anyone too much younger will “grow out of” the relationship.

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**Author:** ![Khendrask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dopers-age-gap-of-sexual-attraction/587367/104 "2013-04-03T11:19:46Z")

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I’m male, 47, and single. That said, I can appreciate the cuteness or hotness factor of young ladies, but am really not interested in them at all either relationship wise or sexually. Sorry, but they just don’t seem ‘done’ yet. As I get older, it seems that people don’t seem to turn into ‘adults’ till later in life.

When it comes to women, I much prefer someone in my age range, probably around 42 to mid 50’s.

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