Why do middle aged men think they need the attention of young women?

Question

Does it only apply to emotionally immature men going through mid-life crisis?

Answer 1

They go for younger ones because women of their own age can match them mentally, whereas the younger ones cannot and will drink in their everyword...that is until they get older and wiser and then the circle begins again....

Answer 2

Unfortunately, many people of both sexes see growing older as a curse instead of what it really is, simply the next phase of life. You can stave it off for a few years or even in some cases a decade or so throught plastic surgery etc. However, I find it is just better to grow old gracefully and accept each phase of life as it comes. The alternative is to become pathetic.

I am at the mid part of life. I enjoy being in my 50's. I had a lot of fun and found something enjoyable about each phase of my life so far. What I found most enjoyable about turning 40, for instance is that people began to take me seriously. Before that I was just some smart-assed kid. Now that I am in my 50's I am the keeper of the wisdom. Answers to difficult questions are often at my command due to years of hands on experience.

Romantically, you start out with the roaring fire of passion. You can't get enough of each other's bodies and it is certainly a lot of fun. However, you must not become addicted to this passion because it cannot possibly last. In fact it is addiction to this early passion that causes some people to have affairs.

If you are dedicated to your spouse, your kids and to the ideal of marriage you resist the temptation. If you are successful, the passion changes to something less exciting but far more precious. It changes to a real dedication. You will know what love really is.

The fire mellows and generates less light and less heat but much more warmth. The ink dries on each chapter of your lives together and the book grows thicker with adventures, trials and tribulations, defeats and victories all shared. As the pages turn a little bit brittle and yellow you are truly one.

People are much too ready to trade this for quick sexual passion. But all passion is fleeting. If you persue only passion you end up pathetic and alone.

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Answer 3

It makes them feel young at heart again...(that's my guess).

To suggest men going through a mid-life crisis are emotionally immature, is a generalised notion. Not all men are.

Answer 4

Because they are old, and the attention is flattering. It does not apply only to emotionally immature men. It happens to all men. You see, there is a feeling of failure and inadequacy in growing old for a man, and the attention of a young woman, if only for a moment, dispels these feelings. And none of us wants to feel like a failure. Even the most successful of men experience this. It is very strange, for we know that we are not failures in any sense, but the brief attention of a pretty young woman makes us feel alive again. And that is worth a lot.

Answer 5

To make themselves feel young again. I know that men are visual creatures and they like the young fresh girls however the young girls do not know squat about having sex because they are inexperienced and immature. The man will not have anything in commen with her due to the age difference. Most likely the woman is going for this older man because of money and the man will get tired of her not having experience in any catagory. She will eventually start to sag as well as time goes by.

Answer 6

I think it applies to most men, not just the immature ones!

It's to do with a younger woman being seen as more attractive in this crappy, shallow society and it's also to do with the man feeling younger, fitter and better about himself if he gets attention from a younger woman.

I am 22 and my boyfriend is 35. All his work mates apparently think his is a 'god' because he 'managed to get a young woman'. I think it's ridiculous and it makes me dread the day I turn 30. Some men can be very shallow.

I'm bisexual and personally i prefer older women!

But it works both ways - what 40 year old woman wouldn't fantasise about this guy doing their gardening?:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://search.tvnz.co.nz/photogallery/images/gallery/entertainment/john_p1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://search.tvnz.co.nz/photogallery/main.php%3Fgallery%3D630%26position%3D43&h=300&w=250&sz=15&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=WC_hCpjFt0mVqM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohn%2Bdesperate%2Bhousewives%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
instead of this guy:
http://gallery.actsofvolition.com/files/small/photo12382.jpg

What I'm saying is - it works both ways!

Attention is fine and fantasising is fine. It's only the immature men that then decide to chase some of that tail when they should be coming home to their wife and family....

Some men are mature and decent enough to look at that hot young tail and watch it walk on by!

xx Emmie

Answer 7

Isn't it just natural to want something that has a longer lifespan and chance to pro-create?
Man's main goal's in life are to eat, sleep, and have sex... not necressarily in that order....

It works for both men & women though, women dress younger in order to attract fitter guys, and us guy's just like anything that pays us compliments and wants us!!

It's got little to do with being immature or going thru a mid-life crisis... its just the animal instinct we all have inside trying to come out....

Answer 8

No it can happen to men who appear very stable and mature. I personally believe that, just like women, it must be a hormonal change that occurs around the "mid" span in life which causes both males and females to rather suddenly feel the need to prove they are still attractive and virile (women try to go often other males, sometimes younger, sometimes not - while men feel that to prove this they must go after younger women).

Answer 9

It could be they are going through a mid-life crisis or maybe they just want attention from a younger woman to make themselves feel better.

Answer 10

I think everyone like the attention of younger people. How many women enjoy flirting with young men? I am not saying it is right but most of them are not getting that sort of attention at home so they will go elsewhere to get it.

Answer 11

I think middle aged men need to feel young. Young women to them are more wild and want sex all the time. I agree with you, i think it most men that are going through mid-life crisis.
Other men just want to feel 25 again. :)