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redqueen

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7. Oh yes, he even says later in the piece

Reply to Scuba (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 02:00 PM

Dec 2011

that this isn't about shaming anyone for doing a double take at an attractive teenager. I think he does well to draw a firm line between such glances and outright leering... and between the true wrongness of this kind of thing with respect to teen girls, and the simply less-likely mutual attraction between early 20's women and older men (it does happen, but not as often as some would like to imagine).

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Is It Natural for Older Guys to Lust After Young Women? [View all] redqueen Dec 2011 OP

Young women, middle-age women, older women.... Scuba Dec 2011 #1

It's natural to find them attractive... redqueen Dec 2011 #2

Any relationship based solely on appearance is shallow and stupid. n/t Scuba Dec 2011 #3

I would say older men leering at / trying to hit on teenage girls... redqueen Dec 2011 #4

I would distinguish between "lusting after" and acting on it.... Scuba Dec 2011 #5

Oh yes, he even says later in the piece redqueen Dec 2011 #7

i have been saying ALL of this for a couple years now. seabeyond Dec 2011 #6

I wonder how big of a majority of women redqueen Dec 2011 #8

the men look like fools. they look like fools to the girls. they look like fools seabeyond Dec 2011 #9

To lust after? Yes LadyHawkAZ Dec 2011 #10