I knew back then that this made me attractive, and being attractive to grown men made me feel good. I was more preoccupied with what I saw: worldliness, sophistication, a gateway to adulthood. None of these interactions became physical, which, looking back, was probably because I liked the idea rather than the reality. Other girls I knew went considerably further. I was
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Whenever you hear about men dating older women, it's often talked about like it's a way to "mix things up" sexually. Robinson moment. But surely plenty of those men exist. I only had one friend with benefits after that who was six years older then me.
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An ageing male flaunting a new Porsche may be the butt of derisive male jokes. But he is far more likely to entice female mates than a younger man with a similar sports car. That is the surprising conclusion of zoologists who believe they have discovered the secret of one of society's most baffling mysteries: the phenomenon by which older males attract young female mates. It is, says zoologist Stephen Proulx, a matter of genetic strength. The theory therefore provides a new answer to the question: 'What on earth does she see in him? As the saying ran: 'Girls like a man with a past but prefer one with a present. However, such interpretations do not explain why gold-diggers are nearly always female and why sugar parents are nearly always male. Why not the other way round?
There seems to be a gender imbalance, vis-a-vis the packaging thing. All the women I know are tolerant of middle age showing itself in a chap. We quite like a late flowering, in fact: the silvering, the smile lines, the coming of bodily sturdiness. We read these as signs that life has been lived and enjoyed.
