# What makes a MILF? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601 "2008-01-07T15:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mytoehurts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mytoehurts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mytoehurts)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/21 "2008-01-08T13:42:32Z")
Oh. Well carry on with your incest fantasies, what kind of board is this anyway!? ---
**Author:** ![Mytoehurts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mytoehurts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mytoehurts)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/22 "2008-01-08T13:45:25Z")
(P.S. That was a joke) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/23 "2008-01-08T13:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=WILLASS] MILF = Mum I’d like to fuck. So why isn’t it MILTF? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/24 "2008-01-08T17:04:21Z")
A MILF has to be a woman who’s old enough to be your mother. Saying anyone who’s had a child can be a MILF is ridiculous - Keisha Castle-Hughes is not a MILF. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/25 "2008-01-08T17:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] A MILF has to be a woman who’s old enough to be your mother. Saying anyone who’s had a child can be a MILF is ridiculous - Keisha Castle-Hughes is not a MILF. [/QUOTE] Agreed- my take is that it has to be a woman that is attractive, yet looks like she’s in her late 30’s or older (and is). An extreme example, Goldie Hawn- she’s hot, but you wouldn’t mistake her for a 20 year old. An 18 year old with a kid is just a hot young girl. No MILF porn site would have a teenybopper girl who just happens to have to have a kid- they go to lengths to make the woman look older (glasses, hair in buns, etc.). I’m surprised **VCO3** hasn’t weighed in here yet. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/26 "2008-01-08T18:10:57Z")
What makes a MILF? Why, the previous generation of MILFs, of course! I’ve been playing around with this guy that’s only 10 years younger than me and therefore I could not be his mother. But it’s an important 10 years (early 20s to early 30s) and the maturity level is incredibly different so he makes me feel like a total MILF sometimes. However, in the strictest sense I would have to weigh in with Thudlow Boink. Even if it does knock me out of contention… ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/27 "2008-01-08T19:05:55Z")
A MILFs children have to be old enough that _their_ contemporaties are eyeing her with wood ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/28 "2008-01-08T19:36:31Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] A MILF has to be a woman who’s old enough to be your mother. Saying anyone who’s had a child can be a MILF is ridiculous - Keisha Castle-Hughes is not a MILF. [/QUOTE] I’ve been using this phrase wrongly for quite some time now :o What’s my punishment? :o ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/29 "2008-01-08T19:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I’ve been using this phrase wrongly for quite some time now :o What’s my punishment? :o [/QUOTE] You have to admit that you’ve been using the phrase wrongly on a public message board seen by thousands of people. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/30 "2008-01-08T20:13:36Z")
> [@](#): > > my take is that it has to be a woman that is attractive, yet looks like she’s in her late 30’s or older You’re a wee bairn indeed. I’m old enough to think of women in their thirties as being young enough to be my daughter not old enough to be my mother. A MILF from my perspective is someone like Susan Sarandon. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/31 "2008-01-08T21:22:02Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] You’re a wee bairn indeed. I’m old enough to think of women in their thirties as being young enough to be my daughter not old enough to be my mother. A MILF from my perspective is someone like Susan Sarandon. [/QUOTE] I’m no spring chicken either- I was going by the original (?) use of the term in American Pie, and the definition from the vantage point of the guys in the film- for me, it would be Florence Henderson 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/32 "2008-01-08T22:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=WILLASS] My wife coined the term ‘FILF’\* unfortunately it was to describe my dad! [/QUOTE] Your wife wants to fuck your dad, and she told you this, and you’re alright with it? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/33 "2008-01-09T16:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=Finagle] a. A Mom. b. Hittable. (in the [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) sense) [/QUOTE] I’d add… c. Experienced. But, I suppose, that’s implied. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601/34 "2008-01-09T19:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=WILLASS] … My wife coined the term ‘FILF’ unfortunately it was to describe my dad! Well fortunately for him, unfortunately for me. … [/QUOTE] She’s got a FILFy mind, that one. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-milf/432601.md?page=1)