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    Women, I've got an old question...

    Posts: 3,306 Member
    edited January 26 in Chit-Chat
    So do we as men really get more attractive as we age, or is it the illusion of added security and knowledge that makes older men more attractive?

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    • Posts: 1,741 Member
      I think it's the decreased sex drive that seems to accompany increased age in men. Who wants a sure thing? I want to work for it!
    • Posts: 36 Member
      It really depends on the man, some men become more attractive as they age, but some definitely do not. It is as much about taking pride in yourself and your appearance as anything else. Added security and knowledge will only get you so far. If you don't care enough about yourself to take care of yourself, then you will never get as much respect as someone who does, no matter what else you have going for you.
    • Posts: 177 Member
      I think it's both. Men (usually) mature as they get older and most women like that. But also, the looks become more "manly" looking rather than a young guy...
    • Posts: 1,190 Member
      There is a definite sense of security but there is also a change that age brings to the features, it removes the feeling of boyhood silliness. A man as he ages no longer looks like someone we need to take are of but someone who can handle sharing the responsibilities of life with us.
    • Posts: 4,907 Member
      I think it has something to do with those old wrinkly balls that Adam Sandler once seemed so disgusted by
    • Posts: 217 Member
      I think a lot of guys look more attractive as they get older. Based on physicality alone.

      ETA: Everyone is different though, just like some women end up looking better in their 30's and beyond than they did in their 20's.
    • Posts: 2,780 Member
      I do believe men start looking their best after 35.
    • Posts: 4,810 Member
      I find older men more attractive as I age.

      The other day I saw a kid and dear lord he was actually in his 20s, but that's how I saw him...as a kid. To me men in their 30s and 40s are the ones I now find attractive. It doesn't have so much to do with security as maturity and shared experiences in common. I just can't relate to someone who was born in 1990.
    • Posts: 102 Member
      I think it has something to do with those old wrinkly balls that Adam Sandler once seemed so disgusted by


      KMSL!!!!! I fainted and then almost died!!!
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      Some do, some don't. It's a genetic lottery.

      Examples:

      Sean Connery

      Harrison Ford

      You go ahead and guess which categories I put these two fellows in respectively.
    • Posts: 6,664 Member
      My wife always says she is going to have the hottest 50 year old on the planet. I tease her that she has daddy issues. :laugh:
    • Posts: 3,499 Member
      i think it depends on the dude....

      some never age....look at Mark Hamill or Davy Jones...they still looked too young even when they were older...

      justin bieber's babyface is gonna haunt him before he grow into it...

      others...well they were made for age....clooney? he got BETTER....(in my eyes that is...i realise this is subjective)

      depends on the person, the way they look and of course the hormones gazing at these men....

      too many variables really
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
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      Some age fine as wine kept in the cellar, and others not so much ; (
    • Posts: 641 Member
      Men look better after early to mid thirties. They fill out and become more masculine.

      There's a guy in my office complex that used to look like such a boy...I've been there six years, and he's clearly moved past that mark because now he's broad shouldered, stronger in the jaw and just generally more pleasing to look at
    • Posts: 2,724 Member
      I think it's the decreased sex drive that seems to accompany increased age in men. Who wants a sure thing? I want to work for it!


      What decreased sex drive? I'm 47. It hasn't decreased at all.
    • Posts: 8,218 Member
      If your name is Sean Connery and you are asking, "Have I grown more attractive with age?" then answer is YES, YES, YES!!!
    • Posts: 716 Member
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      What decreased sex drive? I'm 47. It hasn't decreased at all.

      ^^ Dude doesn't lie. :love:
    • Posts: 1,710 Member
      The reduction in leg humping, showing off and lads' night out behaviour.
    • Posts: 1,574 Member
      I find older men more attractive as I age.

      The other day I saw a kid and dear lord he was actually in his 20s, but that's how I saw him...as a kid. To me men in their 30s and 40s are the ones I now find attractive. It doesn't have so much to do with security as maturity and shared experiences in common. I just can't relate to someone who was born in 1990.
      Yep. Same goes for me. When I was younger I wouldn't date a man more than a couple years older. I've recently dated a man 13 years my senior.

      Then there's men like LL Cool J who just don't seem to age :love:
    • Posts: 8,927 Member
      I was very attracted to my husband when he was younger. Now he is starting to get a little gray in his hair and I find that very attractive. When I see pictures from when he was younger, before I knew him, I think, "Wow, I would have had such a huge crush on him if I had met him when I was younger". And I know I will still be attracted to him when he gets older. So, the aging process is kind of fun, for now anyway (and we are just in our thirties, so still young). I've enjoyed our youth together and I am enjoying growing with him.

      I do think that women like a sense of security and maturity. They want to have conversations with a man that has had experience and knowledge and a lot to bring to the table from many areas and aspects of life.
    • Posts: 22,281 Member
      i seem to be eternally drawn to men in their 30's. even when I was 18. even when i'm older than them now. my husband is younger than me and apparently i'm not outgrowing this. don't know what I'll do when he hits 40, throw him back? is there a catch and release thing for husbands?
    • Posts: 1,093 Member
      I don't find older men attractive. I like men who can keep up.
    • Posts: 1,805 Member
      The reduction in leg humping, showing off and lads' night out behaviour.

      Totally. Civilization finally happens to them.

      Bonus: increases in empathy, insight, and self-awareness. (If not thwarted by cynicism or a hardening of perspective or just getting weird and too out of touch. Wouldn't mind meeting someone exactly as out of touch as I am.)
    • Posts: 8,927 Member
      I like men who can keep up.

      That is important also!
    • Posts: 22,281 Member
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      That is important also!

      it. you mean "it" right?
    • Posts: 586 Member
      Ah *kitten*! I still got a long way to go till I hit 30.
    • Posts: 8,927 Member
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      it. you mean "it" right?

      That too! :wink:
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      I just like men with large.....








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    • Posts: 168 Member
      Op, reverse the question. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It's not about what's hot about old men. It's about who actually finds them hot. I always did. From a very young age. A Lolita. I guess in my case, it's about feeling secure -- growing up, my dad was often absent. There's really no one general answer to your question.
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