I’m 46.
I would *love *to have sex with 18 year old girls as long as I din’t have to, ya know, listen to them or anything.
See, I couldn’t even do that. People in this thread seem to be thinking along the lines of relationship with a younger foe’. I’m saying I couldn’t even do a one night stand with one. It just skeeves me out. Which is weird because I still like looking at them.
It just doesn’t make sense to me.
Weird.
I’m 43, and my lower age limit is about 30…well, except for that 22-year-old barista downstairs. But just the one, not her coworkers. Really. 
I surf for MILF porn now.
Enough said.
I’m a male, 52, and my longtime girlfriend is 51. I once shared with her the fact that a woman has to be within 10 years of my age for me to be “attracted” to her.
Younger women are of course nice to look at, but when they’re young enough to be my daughter, there’s no attraction.
She replied, "Well, then we have a problem - I am only 29!"
Hey, my wife is 29 too! At my ripe old age of 58 MILF’s aren’t, they’re just younger women. Of course, I’d still find them interesting, always have. I just wonder where they were when I was growing up.
I don’t think chaoticbear is too interested in cougars, or women in general. His username is quite apt (and thus one of the few Dopers whose sexuality I remember).
Anyways, I’ve found myself noticing this, and I’m only 26. I don’t think of them as children, but I do find that when I see an attractive 18 year old, my first thought is whether she will be mentally stimulating. And that didn’t matter to me, say, five years ago.
It doesn’t mean I think it impossible, but I have higher standards. Yeah, as I get older, my standards are getting higher–not what I expected.
Heh. I reversed that formula to determine the maximum age I could date. (My age - 7) x 2 gave me 24. Then I fell head over heels for a 27 year old and decided age is just a number.
Another great combo of Dopename and post content
What’s the best thing about having sex with twenty two year olds?
There’s twenty of them.
Heh.
Yes, I am very gay. I do think that there’s more acceptance of… intergenerational romance? in the gay community. While I’m sure I’ve received my share of derision from people, I can’t imagine what it’d be like if I were female. Or had an older female lover. Actually, it seems there is one heck of social stigma against large age differences in either direction in straight relationships - old men “taking advantage” of younger women, and the cougar and boy-toy phenomenon.
“I’m 85, and I’ve been banging 20-year-olds for 65 years. No reason to stop now.” – Mr. H. Hefner, Los Angeles, CA
Sexually, I’m attracted to a fairly wide age range. I wouldn’t want to date anyone too young though because they seem to attract way too much drama!
I’m 41 year old male. I generally wont date anyone younger than 30.
I did worked with a stunning 23 year old who was very mature and wise beyond her years though, her fiancé is a lucky man.
Someone had to do it. 
I’m 54 and find plenty of young women attractive, once they have substantially acquired the secondary sex characteristics. This has waned somewhat as they also have started appearing somewhat childlike too.
It is hard to attach an age because people are so varied. I thought the character Baby was too young to be sexy in Dirty Dancing, but actress Jennifer Grey played her at age 27. But speaking of babies, I thought Brooke Shields was very sexy in Pretty Baby, at the age of 12. I think I was SUPPOSED to find her sexy. But I also think I was creepy.
And speaking of creepy, I think the publicity stills of Jonbenet Ramsey combined a successful “Hey, Sailor” come-on look with the cranial structure of a child little past the toddler stage. I think they were supposed to, too. For me this perfectly captures the unsavory loathing I feel for child modeling, or whatever they call it.
18 is kind of on the line because it’s possible to still be in high school at that age, and that feels wronger than the age itself. I’m not really bothered at all if I am attracted to 19-year-olds. 1/2 my age + 7 is 19, so I guess that makes sense.
For just having casual conversations with teenagers, even kids under 18, I don’t always find it different from talking to people my own age. Totally depends on the person.
Bolding mine. That stuck out to me reading this thread because I’ve met hot, smart and savvy older men (couple years ago, was maybe 21 or 22 at the time and they were probably mid to late 40’s). My interests trend older (theater and dinner parties, not bar crawling and keggers) to begin with so the personality attraction was there but I couldn’t get over how facially they looked like my dad. Ick.
It makes perfect sense to me. Appreciating the beauty of a younger body, even finding it attractive, isn’t necessarily the same thing as wanting to act on that attraction.
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Yip. I noticed that even as a kid. Just because I find a woman attractive didn’t mean I wanted to have sex with her. And I found it weird that everyone, including the books my parents gave me to read on the subject, seemed to think the feelings were one and the same.
Heck, it’s the reason I found all that PUA crap annoying, before I noticed how it was used to further the misogyny of many of its practicers.