As a man, what’s the youngest age you’d date if given the chance?
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Early 30s. But that’s pushing it.
I don’t pay attention to pop culture/media, and it’s very unlikely that I’d have a lot of cultural moments in common with someone that was younger than their early 30s. OTOH, I’m considered fairly extreme for my age on a number of points, so it’s more likely that I’d be complementary to someone that’s younger (i.e., I don’t act my age).
This is one of those subjects I’ve hard set very early in my life. No matter what, anything below or above two years of age is off limits.
As you age that range can expand without being creepy. Someone 70 years old might find it very difficult to stick within a 2 year range.
The “half your age plus seven” rule might be a bit more universal.
Hypothetically?
As long as they’re old enough to reasonably be expected to be an equal partner in a relationship, there isn’t a limit.
Assuming that someone can exhibit that criteria by means other than age, as long as it’s legal.
But that’s hypothetically. There’s no way in reality that I’m going to have enough commonality and connection with anyone still in their teens, period. Not gonna happen.
Even early twenties, at this point in my life, I haven’t met anyone in that age range that I could be a good partner for, nor they for me. It’s about stages of life and motivations and goals.
I can’t imagine actually going the distance with anyone younger than thirty at all. If I were still single, and setting up a dating app, that’s where I’d set the lower limit, and I’m fairly confident that nobody at the very bottom of that limit would be a good match overall.
That being said, my wife is over a decade younger than me, so I’m well aware that age itself isn’t an inherent limit to long term compatibility. It just greatly limits the chances of it working. Once you hit a 20 year gap, there’s just so much in between, in terms of experience, life goals, and shared perspective that it is stacked tall against it working as a true partnership. Since that’s what I want, not just someone to live with and have sex with, it ain’t happening in reality.
When me and my wife fist met, I was dubious at the gap, 13 years. But I was still in my late thirties, so someone in their twenties that was very sure of what they wanted in a partner made sense. Still does, over a decade later. So big gaps can work out, as long as you don’t rush into things.
But now, at 50, how the hell would me trying to build a partnership with someone in their twenties work? I remember my twenties, I remember other people at that age. Me now wouldn’t think me then would be a good partner for a woman my age. And he wouldn’t be. He would have tried, if it came along, but there’s just so much that happens to a person in twenty years. It’s astronomical odds of it working.
Date? 35
Fuck? 18
Meaningless question without clarifying if “date” means “meeting someone I might partner with for life” or “fuck”.
Got for both or either.
A friend of mine introduced the “creepiness rule”:
if ((age_of_older_partner / 2) - 7 > age_of_younger_partner) { let creepy = true; }I think it is a pretty good approximation.
That’s the XKCD rule. Half your age + 7. See https://xkcd.com/314/
This long predates XKCD. It predates the web.
Isn’t that supposed to be a ‘+7’ ?
Yes. Fixed it.
(your age / 2 + 7) or ((your age - 7) * 2)
These yield very different results
Yes, it’s a lower and upper limit
I live almost exclusively in a bed. If you’re good with that, hit me up. No judging, not even exclusively human. We open.
Not even… exclusively human? Am I missing something? I…An alien? 👽
I’m physically disabled, basically undatable; stuck in social isolation. It is satirical. I’m saying it doesn’t matter, if you can find a match with anyone just do it and be happy. One day you might find yourself in a situation where you actually need people but don’t have anyone or any way out. The numbers are arbitrary and meaningless. There are plenty of elderly children and a few kids out there that run circles around them. If none of us kept track of age, love would be the only relevant metric and perhaps that should be the true ethical measure. All of the Western norms are arbitrary garbage. Nature dictates sexual and cognitive maturity yet Western culture is based on the ideals of child soldiers capable of carrying the kit of murderers while being easily manipulated into foolish stupidity. Child solders are the only reason the arbitrary age of 18 exists and this is the pivot of all cultural norms and ethics. That is not scientific or ethical. Humans are cognitively fully developed at 25, so almost everyone is starting an arbitrary baseline for minimum in a pedantic argument over how kiddie is too kiddie to start. I don’t think there is a such thing as too old or too young. Life is all about making the best of what you have and your opportunities. I lost 8.5 of my 9 cat lives 2/26/14 on a bicycle ride to work. I fought and totaled 2 SUVs that morning but got a broken neck and back in return. I can’t hold posture. I can’t go anywhere and be myself. I’m still fully mobile. I can take care of myself for the most part, but my whole world is pretty much inside these walls. If that interests anyone, hell yeah I’d like to talk. Any company beats none in my circumstances. Most humans are totally unaware of people like me. You are probably making many assumptions about my situation or motivations. I would be doing the same in the inverse situation. The thing is, you are protecting yourself from the reality of how many things can go wrong and how often those things have no effective cure or solution. If you were aware of all the potential problems, you would likely never leave the safety of home. In a school of fish all you ever see are the fish around you are all doing great and everyone is happy. You have never seen a whale, seal, gull, tuna, or shark, never mind the nets of humans, vast deserts, volcanoes, or anaerobic sea.
And trilobites.
I’d only date people who are roughly my age, with whom we share the same generational culture and who are in the same stages of life.
I like men 30+ (34 seems ideal) As for younger men go, I would date a guy who is, say, 22 years old or older.
I need someone who is mentally at a similar maturity to me, given that I’m in my late 20s that means someone who’s probably no younger than 24ish. Now for a hookup, 20 or so would probably be fine, anything younger and I’d feel weird.
As a 29 year old woman, i find myself more and more attracted to men in their late 30s-40s. Men really do get better with age, that being said……… 18-25 year old boys can fuck for hours and hours and i have a hard time saying no to them 🙈
As a man nearing 50 I can definitely say that age has little to do with how long someone can fuck, but more importantly length of sexual contact has little correlation to satisfaction.
Quality definitely reigns supreme and those that are younger do not have this. I will admit though a large portion of sexuality is just in your head. So if you think younger equals better then it will be a self fulfilling prophecy.
I don’t like to judge people until after I meet them. But Irresponsible people really grinds my gears, and the younger are generally worse in that regard.
Myage -10 is usually good enough. Which makes them later half of 20s. It’s not a hard limit, and I’ll hear your case if you care you make it.
I’m a 32 year old guy. When I had dating apps I had my age range set from 26-56.
I know I could legally date an 18 year old but those people are like children to me. Just listening to them speak you can feel the lack of life experience and lack self confidence or something. I think you all will understand what I’m trying to say there lol.
As for loving the milfs/gilfs I don’t mind me an older woman, but I feel anything past 56 and we will be at a significantly different point in our lives.
I don’t have strict boundaries though. If I met someone a little outside those limits and I was hitting it off I would have no problem ignoring it.
Whatever is socially acceptable in the local community.
Dating is about finding a good partner. For men this is brining strong genes and resources demonstrated over a lifetime, for women this is fertility and health. People will make the best of whatever options they have
“Strong genes” lmfao look fellas, we got an evolutionary biologist over here. Lay off the manosphere my friend
this is an incredibly heteronormative and gender stereotyped way to look at things
Which fine for people who are heteronormative and fit into gender stereotypes as long as they aren’t preventing those who aren’t from dating as they choose
