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At 22, 18 and 19 sometimes seem too young. As for women, I don't see anything bad about it. Although it would have to be a pretty exceptional case to date someone over 4-5 years.

If you're 25, and a knockout, stunning 18-y-o redhead is hitting on you hard, would you say no?

I wouldn't... I didn't...

I don't think I'd like to date a woman in her 40s.   

Sorry, justine, you just don't do it for me.

Sometimes the age thing is a bit weird for us, especially her. It's not pleasant when a waiter or a sales clerk refers to me as her dad

I have the opposite problem.  People mistake me for my father's wife! 

Re: Kinsley Report

I've read numerous times that the findings in the Kinsley report were sort of skewed.  For one thing, the era in which it was taken was pretty sexually err, sensitive.  Because people were working within the context of the times, many younger women felt that they shouldn't do some of the things Kinsley was talking about.  It was only later when they were more comfortable with their husbands that these women became more sexually active.

if someone else wants to do that it's fine but I will NEVER date a younger guy. If they are even a SECOND younger than me Im immediately not interested in a relationship.

Do you take timezone differences into this calculation?

There are lots of attractive women out there who are older than me, and I'm sure I wouldn't mind dating one at all. If you're going to talk about serious relationships, though, I'd eventually like to have kids, so I think that reduces the prospects for older women somewhat, though not entirely at this point.

Would and have on both counts, and would again!  The first woman I lived with was 6 years older than me.  One of my later girlfriends was 12 years younger.  Both had their pluses and minuses (hmmm, kinda like people).

The problem with men like me (I'm near - gulp - 40) is that we think we could still date someone who's -- hell, 19!  Well, I don't know if "date" is the right word.

Age ain't nothin' but a number anyway.

I doubt even Robert B at 77 (cough, cough, for argument's sake, cough , cough) would date an 18 year old that weighs 200 lbs. and never moves further than between her tv and fridge.

yeah, she's gotta be able to get me a beer, and turn on my oxygen.

I think men dating younger women is wrong.  I'm gonna get killed for saying this but the truth is I've known four or five naive-ass women who have dated guys like 10 years older and they have major problems.

I personally wouldn't date someone ten years younger.  I would date someone older.  I think mostly it's not a problem of an age difference, it's a problem of how old they are at the time.  For example, a 19 year old girl dating a 29 year old man is a lot different than a 40 year old woman with a 50 year old guy, if you catch my drift.

I have always dated older guys. Even when I was a freshman in high school, my boyfriends and prom dates were always seniors. I have only dated one guy that was my age. Granted the guys I date are only 3-4 years older than me, which isn't very much. I like dating older guys!

Funny,  I have a rule for age differences.  Its for something a bit dirtier that dating,  but it can still be applied. 

I like to call it Pilt's Law

You can check it out here

I think men dating younger women is wrong.  I'm gonna get killed for saying this but the truth is I've known four or five naive-ass women who have dated guys like 10 years older and they have major problems.

Yeah, well smurf you and what you think.

I think men dating younger women is wrong.  I'm gonna get killed for saying this but the truth is I've known four or five naive-ass women who have dated guys like 10 years older and they have major problems.

Yeah, well smurf you and what you think.

Actually, while I wont' take that back, I will add some exposition. You, and no one else, has the right to think that older men dating younger women is "wrong." It's frankly none of you damn business, and four women is not a valid sample. I know far more people that who have been stuck in bad relationships with people their own age.

When you decide that such relationships are "wrong," you're in the same territory that believes that homosexual relationships are wrong, or interracial relationships are wrong, or any other relationship that you're not a part of and don't know the people involved is wrong. Maybe the women of your acquaintance were in bad relationships. I can't say, I don't know them.

But I do know that any relationship between two adults that makes them both happy is fine with me. I'm not so narrowminded and filled with hatred as to think I can make judgements about other people's happiness, or to think that my experience is the beginning and end of everything anyone needs to know about any subject.

I suppose that's where you and I differ.

I always chuckle when this subject comes up. From the time I started dating until I was in grad school, I insisted on dating only older men. I assumed older men would be more mature, more interesting, more compatible, so on and so forth. And then I started dating a man 8 years my senior; he very quickly revealed himself to be an immature abusive dick who didn't have his own checking account let alone any ambition in life. He blew me off for several weeks and then one night called me from a bar to tell me he didn't want to see me anymore. He then spent the next two years calling me around 2am every other Saturday night to tell me he loved me and ask if I would drive over to his place and "smurf" his brains out.

After that, I decided my little rule about dating only older men was stupid; not too long after, I started dating Gippy.

My wife is ten years older than I am, although at our ages ten years isn't that significant - a fair number of folks assume I'm the older half (and she certainly didn't pick me for my looks).

And PuddleMonkey - to sum up, your stupid rule was to date only older men, and your older rule was to date only stupid men.  Way to go, Gippy!