Usually I can't stand the Sam and the City blog on SMH, but the title of today's one caught my attention!

Why girls love older men.

As someone who has only ever dated older men, it was like, "Ohh, should check that out..." Although there hasn't been much interesting stuff on it yet. Still, I don't think there's really that much on the topic that can be said. Younger women dating older men isn't really as "taboo" as younger men dating older women is. After all, it's always seemed to be that women go out with guys who are a couple of years older than them at least.

*yawns n stretches* It's no real revelation that older guys are more mature, experienced, comfortable in their own skin, etc. But not all of them like younger women or want to trade what they've got in for a younger model, so it's kinda unrealistic to think that they do. Or that all women like older guys. People like people for the craziest of reasons ~ sometimes love really is kinda blind after all and age or whatever really doesn't make a difference when it comes to actual attraction to others.

That said, it's rare that I find guys my own age or younger attractive. The youngest guy I've dated was 25 when I was about 19. The oldest was 46 when I was 21, but that was kind of weird even though he was a fantastic person. Now at 22, I find a good age range is about 32-36 or so. Although there are no hard and fast rules to attraction and there are some people older than that who are definitely hot. I mean, George Clooney? Mreowr...

Attraction's more than looks. It's about looking ~ looking on the inside, seeing something about the person that amazes you beyond what any others do and that can be found in a person who's 22 or 42. You can never tell when it'll come along or who it'll be with :)

Although if he acts like Tom Cruise, it's DEFINITELY time to run in the opposite direction before you're up the duff and he's wanting to call it "Ron."

NEWSFLASH: This is suddenly all kinda ironic considering this: Time, gentlemen by Andy Beckett in The Age. So it looks like life-long fertility for males is a myth after all.