To ask if most straight men are attracted much younger women?

Yes we can!. It's gross, sixteen year olds are still kids!.

Well of course they are! Societal pressures might mean they wouldn't do anything about it, but they'd like to. I don't mean as old as 18 or 19, they're fully grown adults anyway

I can remember from the age of 11 whenever I would be out (as in walking to the bus stop/walking to school or friends etc) I would constantly get beeped at by men in cars and white vans. I've had men pull over and try and talk to me. This even used to happen abroad on holiday whilst my dad was with me. This isn't me bragging lol but I was often in school uniform when this happened and I clearly looked like an underage child. Didn't develop breasts till I was nearly 16! It really grosses me out when I think of it.

As a mother taking my kids to school each morning I continue to see men driving and staring at school girls. It makes me feel sick, but at least they have the decency to not beep these days, I suppose 😐

I think it’s broadly true that men find younger women attractive. That doesn’t mean they will pursue it, or that it is anything other than objectively seeing someone is attractive. These are not women that older men genuinely want to date or be with.

and by younger I mean 20s.

a PP said there’s a parallel with women generally being attracted to wealthier men. I think that’s true too. Women try to look younger, men try to look richer.

I think it depends on what you mean by late teens.

I work in a university so am surrounded by people 18 - 21, and yes, a lot of the women are attractive, and I am attracted to them.

Younger than that, they tend to still look like the kids they are so no, I'm not attracted to them, and neither are most men.

The fact that 18 year olds are attractive though doesn't mean that I'd have any interest at all in an 18 year old. Just because someone is nice to look at, doesn't have any bearing on whether I'd be interested in dating them, or even just having sex with them.

I'm 42, I'd have absolutely nothing in common with someone in their 20s' let alone someone who was 18, why would that be someone I'd pursue?

So yes, I'd say most men are attracted to 18 year olds. That doesn't mean we're dirty perverts who want to sleep with them though.

Ew

Wow!

Next you'll be asking if it's really true that we are attracted wealthy men . . .

Of course man are attracted to younger women. Why the fuck do you think the UK cosmetics industry is worth 30 Billion annually. Do you think we are spending all that money on products to look older!

We want to look younger. We think youth is attractive. We spend thousands each year on products and procedures in an attempt to keep ourselves from looking our actual age.

I really question the motivation of OP's who pose questions like this. What the fuck do people think men are attracted to?

If I could look 19 again I would. And so would any of you. Even the OP. And there isn't a man on the planet that would think

"nah! . . . I prefer old and saggy"!

I don’t know how you can know that.

in my experience men like and lust over younger women until they are in old age. Not teenagers but women in their 20s definitely. just because they are not saying it, or maybe they accept they haven’t a hope, who knows but my impression of men is that they will want sex with young women until they die.

Im amazed at how my taste is changing as I am getting older though. I like older men now, I prefer them and think men younger than 30 are too young.
I see you all writing about ‘dad bods’ I understand what you are describing and am really into it. 😁

I would wonder if there was a distinction made between ‘objectively most attractive’ and ‘what you are attracted to’, because to me, there is no point in being attracted to someone out of your league. Wonder how they framed it.

I think the answer to this question is both better and worse than you'd like to hear. Men are basically attracted to anyone who seems within the ages that women are able to make babies. So that's both younger than is socially acceptable (as soon as girls hit puberty) and later than is generally thought (incels who tell you 30 is the limit are a decade or two too low)

@EmeraldShamrock000 Thank you, yes that's what I've thought too!

(Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread with a personal story, just thought it was a good example of what was being discussed!)

He doesn't deserve you, his immature selfish ego took over. Self-reflection or not, you are better than that.
I personally wouldn't trust him. 💐

There was a study done, where they asked women and men from age 18 to 80 who they found most attractive by showing them photos of those same aged people.

As women aged, the men they found attractive changed with age.

Men from 18-80 on average found the 22 year old the most attractive.

"With few exceptions, straight men will have sex with women who are willing to have sex with them in the main. If they think that that will 'only' be women of their own age, that's who they'll go for. If they think they've got a chance with someone younger, they'll go for them."

I actually had this happen to me. I am 50, divorced and just started to think about dating again. About 18 months ago I got to know a lovely guy who goes to the same running group, early 50s. I really liked him. We had great chemistry, common interests, I found him really attractive, he seemed kind etc. Similar goals in life. We were talking for a year or so, I had told him that I was still raw after my divorce, but open to taking things slowly.

We hadn't actually got to the point of "dating" when he told me that he'd got into a relationship with a woman in her 20s! I know the woman and she is very attractive. I think the guy was very flattered that she wanted him and the whole thing was based on lust. It ended within a few months and now he's crawling back to me saying that he realises "looks aren't everything" and he wants something "deeper", and he now realises what he could have had with me.

To be fair to him it does sound like he's done a lot of self reflection, but it does sting to realise that even though he and I seemed to have a deep connection, all that was overlooked when a hot twenty something made a play for him.

Of course. I have met men in their 70's and older who find their wife the most beautiful women in the world.
Attraction is so much more than surface level, I have always found a warm smile, nice arms very attractive over a typical good looking man.
Thinking someone is good looking, doesn't equal wanting to have sex with them.
I notice many good looking people without feeling sexual attracted to any of them.

YANBU but it’s also a classic ‘pull back and reveal’ gag mechanism that is designed to elicit an almost Pavlovian laugh response. Then there is the additional layer of ‘ooh er’ controversial humour that Jimmy Carr is famous for.

It doesn't matter when "prime" fertility occurs. As far as nature is concerned, time's a wastin'. Early humans could be eaten by a tiger or contract a fatal disease at any time, so the sooner they started reproducing, the better. Evolution has seen to it that we have inherited these traits.

Prime fertility is mid 20s. Not 18.

Man here

As we get older our tastes in women change and we tend to be/come attracted to women within our age group. As a 20 year old I wouldn't find many 50 year old women attractive, as a 50 year old I do.

However that doesn't mean that we still can't, and don't, find younger women attractive. Of course we do, they don't magically become unattractive just because we have got older. We might not want to date them as they are, usually, simply not mature enough to be interesting and/or we would have very little in common that either of us would find intellectually stimulating.

For the commenter who said that their partner would 'never look at a younger woman in that way', I am afraid that I have some bad news for you.

I laughed at the joke too. Doesn’t mean I am attracted to teenage girls or women in their early 20s, and it doesn’t indicate I approve of that kind of sad perving. I think it’s laughing at the ‘unexpectedness’ of the punchline rather than out of approval of that way of thinking. That said, I think most straight men are attracted to that late teens/ early 20s age group.

I agree in part. Most men are attracted to younger women but I’d wager only the “beautiful” ones ie slim, long hair, minimal make up/natural beauty. And quite “girly”.

It’s a bit like male lesbian porn fantasies - they want to see two beautiful “lipstick lesbians” not two butch/androgynous lesbians.

Most men like aesthetically pleasing, compliant females. They’re not too hung up on goths, punks or skinhead girls.

You can’t interpret laughter like that. People laugh at surprising things, such as the word play there, and often becuase they are transgressive not accepted.

Googling research on ephebophilia tells me 20-30% of men have some attraction to 15-17 year olds, with 1% having a primary preference for that age.

To add, Jimmy has a sick humour, the shock factor, its his career, he's a happily married man. I have been to his show, he likes to shock.

It’s not just straight men either. Look at gay celebrities and their much younger partners.