Re: yesterday’s blog, my son Tyson wonders what’s going in a woman’s head who chooses to get involved with a man 20-40 years her senior. “Like almost everything else, I believe this is a two way street.”
Good point. Must be some kind of father-figure issue but one advice columnist says another possibility is that “… she hasn’t reached her sexual peak and may not be comfortable with guys her own age who can’t think of anything but sex.”
But there’s a range of weirdness/wrongness, too — Example A) forty-something Presidents Kennedy and Clinton boinking 20 yr-old interns; Example B) 62-year-old Woody Allen marrying the 27-year-old adopted daughter of his former lover. Those guys are more responsible/irresponsible than the women.
I can’t find it on the web but I once read that the French have a rule-of-thumb for May-Sept romances… something like “a man should not get involved with a woman who’s younger than half his age plus nine.” So for 24 year-old guy, the woman should at least be 21. For a 70 year-old geezer like Robert Duvall, 44 would be the low end. Makes some sense.