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I clicked on the Instagram account of a male friend to check out photos of his new girlfriend. My friend is pushing fifty
good looking
and a successful professional
and I was expecting his girlfriend to be attractive and young. I was wrong
and I was shocked
though pleasantly so. His new girlfriend was clearly older than him. And my surprise reflected how unusual this situation is. Middle aged men frequently date women younger than themselves. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have an age difference of 25 years. Credit: AP. I've seen this play out repeatedly in my own life. Most of the fifty-something men I know have
at some point
been involved with women in their thirties. It's so common it's a clichГ©. And the relationships go one of two ways. Either they end in heartbreak
because the younger woman wants babies and the man can't bear the thought of starting over
or they stay together
and the man eventually becomes a father again in midlife. So why do so many older men hook up with younger woman? Well
the obvious answer is 'because they can'. But what makes young women so attractive to older men? I mean
sure
their bodies are firmer
but why is this so fantastically important? Older men don't have a great deal in common with younger women
and it's an easy option in the long term. It can be enormously costly to start a new family in midlife
both emotionally and financially. Well
perhaps the answer is fear. Recently
I watched an interview about aging with Stacy London
the American stylist and host of What Not to Wear . "Culturally speaking
she says, the reason women are devalued as they age is because we've internalised the male gaze." And why do men devalue women over 40?