Re: How old is too old ?
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 8:58 pm
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Pretty much the same for me. Though I can't stand any pubic hair at all.Fragment wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:19 am Tanner Stage 4. It has less to do with age and more to do with phenotype to me.
Cool. That was my strong impression, I'm glad to see it confirmed.Fragment wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:50 am https://forum.map-union.org/viewtopic.php?t=28
I posted this back in the early days of the forum. The question is gone (due to my freak out where I deleted all my posts from the board). But basically "if the person was numerically 80, but physically 7/10/13 would you be interested?"
Obviously most people said yes. It's not numbers that turn us on.
just using this quote to reply to you in general.WavesInEternity wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:33 am Pretty much the same for me. Though I can't stand any pubic hair at all.
Im strongly convinced that the law shapes human behavior massively in this way. For things people really, really want, but the law restricts, people will ride as close to the line as they safely can. Some of it could be an act of defiance regardless of desire, but for things like porn searches, its more likely that this is their genuine desire demonstrated by porn search metrics, as I doubt people en masse would go out of their way to so massively skew porn search results just to provide a statistic. I don't think that ever happens. and it'd be silly to say that all these people are only attracted to 18 year olds specifically. It's far more likely that if their was a porn category for 17 year olds, that would become the next top search, then 16 year olds, then 15, etc. sure there might be more of a drop off around 13 or so, as the pubescence of these girls are put more and more into question, but that doesn't make the sexual desire for preteen girls any less valid than the attraction to other men or to feet, or to butts just because those parts are not strictly, or at all indicative of a girls breeding capacity. a lot of attraction is not merely breeding potential.WavesInEternity wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:33 am If anything, the age of consent and age of majority are precisely what might make some numbers become fetishized by some people—we only have to look at the huge peak of pornographic content featuring 18-year-olds. In and of themselves, chronophilias aren't really about age.
I used to think that no longer being physically attracted to someone meant I was a shallow person, but compared to other relationships I witnessed, I viewed myself differently. I also began to wonder if being in a relationship indefinitely was even a healthy thing. I like to imagine my emotional connection to someone will allow me to continue being their friend no matter how old they become, but I will always be predominantly attracted to children or young adults.
It has less to do with age and more to do with phenotype to me.
You don't deny this in your post (I agree that, on average, men especially seem to be drawn to youth) but I think people downplay how interested in younger men women often are, and not just men under 35 but young teen boys.There is a reason women tend to be attracted to men who are either their age or somewhat older, yet men tend to be attracted to roughly the same age of girls pretty much throughout their entire life. I think there is a common tendency among men to be attracted to the same age group from a set point in their life, usually young teenhood. The fact that the AoC, or just the average age men attempt to "court" girls, globally has been lower than 18, often drastically lower historically, seems to indicate that humans, men especially, are attracted to youth in general, not to a specific number but no lower than what the law says. Early 20s is just the generally most accepted lower limit in modern culture. The law might say one thing, but culture only loosely follows the law. The speed limit might be 60, but if you're not going a bit faster than that, you're going "too slow". That's not the law, that's culture. Sure 18 is allowed, but if you're intentionally going after 18 year olds specifically, you're seen as "pedo adjacent", or literally just a pedophile in the average American's eyes. If the AoC was lower, the average age men would be dating would lower in response, so long as cultural trends remain where the acceptable dating age is only about 5 years over the AoC. IDK if I'm allowed to link to anything on here, but you can google "age of attraction for men" and you'll find charts that show this.
If you're a man, don't feel bad for being "stuck" being attracted to a certain age group, it's very common.