Why are liberals opposed to adult age differences if "love is love" ?

[Karol Klačansky]

its completely natural for older men to date younger women, even biologically so. If a man literally dedicates his life to the girl, even if shes young, and is caring for her and the children they have together obviously hes not just using her for sex.

[Roy]

its completely natural for older men to date younger women, even biologically so. If a man literally dedicates his life to the girl, even if shes young, and is caring for her and the children they have together obviously hes not just using her for sex.

Yeah, and many of those older men actually, well ... are not likely to have a great sexual potency so it is not mostly sex then for them. But when I see some old man with a young woman on his side I sometimes do get some icky impression.

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

i've dated many younger women

alot of younger women are attracted to older men, and not necessarily for financial reasons

many of them find it easier to submit sexually to an older man....you know that most women enjoy being dommed to various degrees in the bedroom, right ?

[Karol Klačansky]

Yeah, and many of those older men actually, well ... are not likely to have a great sexual potency so it is not mostly sex then for them. But when I see some old man with a young woman on his side I sometimes do get some icky impression.

many older men want to still have a family if they didnt have the possibility when they were young, obvioiusly they have to have a younger women for this. If the age difference is massive like greater than 20 years obviously its strange but if a women is 20 and the other 37 etc this is absolutely normal and there is nothing weird about it. Also some people saying what are they going to speak about...they are both grown adults. I know people my age who its like speaking to a brick wall, and some young people who are intelligent and you can have great conversations with. Nothing weird about this.

[oszkar07]

Society views things in very specific ways, if a girl is 18/19 and going with a man up to the age of 25, its tolerated and accepted. But if the man is between 30 - 40 or above 40, the man may be viewed as some type of creep, even if he isn't.

When I was at University there was this couple/students in my class they had struck up a relationship.
The guy was around 40 at least even maybe 40 ish.
He wasnt particuliarly handsome or ugly not fat but not really jacked or athletic.
The girl was way younger could have been as young as 18/19.
She was reasonably nice looking. Nice face and body. They seemed happy with one another and were always together and looked quite content.
This was some time back nearly 20 years ago, I have the feeling that in modern times people are more judgemental about those type of relationships. As we seem to live in a highly escalated PC culture and Me too /cancel culture. Im not promoting such relationships of bigger age gaps and they by nature may be less common than the average but it seems society judges more harshly even though those relationships are consentual - legal and sometimes succesful.

Even in the 60's/70's/80's there were many cases of woman falling pregnant at 16yo to their 18 or 19 yo boyfriends. Many of those couples would get married and go on to raise family and live together into old age.

Then ofc there are the sugar daddy and gold digger relationships.

Anna nicole smiths millionaire husband was only in his 90's.

[BakersfieldChimp]

Mid life crisis is proven to be a myth. It doesn't exist. It was based on a study done in the 1970s of middle aged men. They found it to be a fraud to sell books. Also if a mid life crisis happens for men, its not at 40, but around 50 years of age.

Maybe "midlife crisis" isn't the correct term. Many people, more visible in men than women, go through a phase where they start doing things that are more reminiscent of people younger than themselves. Maybe it is a one-shot like the thirty-five-year-old man who jumps into a mosh pit for the first time in ten years. Sometimes, it can be bigger than that. A man who buys a Miata to zip around in while his wife totes the kids around in the minivan. Both are based on a person who is grabbing onto a piece of youth that they have yet to accept is in their yesterdays.





When a man in his forties makes a music video where he rescues a woman who looks at least 15 years younger than he does, it comes across as odd. When the video creator goes to the extreme to argue how they could make an age-appropriate couple, he comes off as a person unwilling to accept he is growing older...at best. Other things about the video make it come off as downright creepy.

Read the comments to the video for a deeper understanding.

Maybe "midlife crisis" isn't the right word but what else should it be called?

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

No they don't. Its natural. Its not as natural for men to be with older women, however. Men can father children at any age, women's eggs are lost by the time she is over 40

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What you think is natural is amusingly always something that benefits you. No one wants to fuck you let alone a hot 20-something. Accept reality and move on.

[Incal]

I do think initially the older men are using the younger women for sex basically because what is there in common realistically speaking? That's why they want to date/marry young women. But then later on as the women gets older in the relationship, she starts taking advantage of him and milking it for all its worth.

It's always like that regardless of age.

[BakersfieldChimp]

It's always like that regardless of age.

I used to think some guys were too broke to attract golddiggers. Then I had a friend bring one back from his court-ordered DUI class. He bought her a bicycle so they can peddle to the bars together...
Maybe it is love.
Maybe they have a bond that others just don't comprehend.

[Wegner]

I used to think some guys were too broke to attract golddiggers. Then I had a friend bring one back from his court-ordered DUI class. He bought her a bicycle so they can peddle to the bars together...
Maybe it is love.
Maybe they have a bond that others just don't comprehend.

I know a guy that was getting $800/month in social security disability and still managed to give his girlfriend $200/month...because he was sponging off HIS friends. (Both of his parents died years ago, so he can't sponge off of them...)

Last I heard he had broken up with this other girl and gotten a new long-distance girlfriend, this one in Canada, and was sending her painkillers through the mail. Yea, the ones that are illegal without a prescription. He's got a prescription and somehow thinks that makes it OK to give his pills to other people.