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

LOL, that's a myth that has never been true. Men do not all get more attractive with age (and not moreso than women!) I see far more women who look good in their 50s and 60s than men. Many men (after 45) get a pot belly, they are balding, they look older than their age, they dress like shit, and they think they still look like they did at 30.

I think middle aged men who go for/look at girls as young as 16 are repugnant and vile, but it's understandable that they find younger women attractive. Men are attracted to what they see, women are attracted to what they hear. Then again, I find younger men more attractive (like in their 30s, and early 40s...) than men my own age...

I am late 50s, and if me and DH split up, hell would freeze over before I would get with a man of my own age. I just couldn't be fucked with a man of nearly 60 LOL. Then again, I know a man under 55 very likely wouldn't want me. So I would stay on my own. Rather that than be with a man of 60!

But this isn't true. In nature teen pregnancy is very risky - teens aren't fully developed, have narrower hips, and much more likely to die in childbirth.

Evolutionary speaking, it makes most sense for men to target women at peak fertility and childbearing years - which is around age 21-23

Of course it works. Males are competing with countless other males. So, the earlier they can find a mate, before she’s snapped up by someone else, the better. Also, nature only cares about reproduction. So, the earlier a female starts having children, the more children she can have in her lifetime. We are descended from the males who pursued this strategy.

TBF Jimmy Carr is an equal opportunity offender.

And most of us are at our most physically attractive in our youth (yes MOST, before you come at me with your exceptions). That doesn't necessarily translate into people fancying or wanting to be with someone from that age group.

I thought the jimmy carr joke was hilarious and I’m a 43 year old woman. Fairly sure jc is not a paedophile and as pp said, it’s the context and delivery that make it funny, it’s clearly not his true feelings on the matter it’s meant to provoke shock as it’s so outrageous a concept. He’s a comedian, it’s a joke, and actually doesn’t necessarily reflect anything other than that.

Looking at family tree type stuff it seems 15 year age gaps were common in the past, meant men could build their career (and sow their wild oats no doubt) before settling down with a woman in their peak child rearing years. Of course at least in middle class families women wouldn’t be working so the age gap at retirement wasn’t as issue and women are “useful” later in life once their husband has passed away

I don’t like Jimmy Carr I think he has disgusting humour and is not funny at all.

But I do think men of all ages, even elderly men, like younger women, yes.
Some men like older women too, but all men like younger women.

I think people have really lost their humour... by hot I think he women meant late teens, who are pretty much fully developed women. Men by nature are visual creatures, I'm straight but you could understand why the would look at a younger women with all the bumps in the right places, who doesn't have the scars of child birth etc.

The last stage of puberty is in your early 20s and women in their early 20s are at peak fertility, not teenagers and particularly not young teens! The nature argument doesn't really work here

Yes this. There is a depressing graph with age of men on one axis and the age of women they are attracted to on the other.

Regardless of the age of the man, they were all most attracted to 22-23 year olds on average. Even the 80 year olds.

Late teens? Mid teens. I have heard men saying that they like 15 years old in an world without laws

I think men of all ages find young women sexually attractive. But many older ones wouldn't try and act on it. As they'd feel the age gap would be inappropriate.

Plenty of women in their fifties might fancy a 25 yo, but I think they are more likely to feel a kind of motherly feeling which would often stop sexual desire.

I think this is common too. Many adult women find men under about 25 too "unfinished" looking, almost like boys. I felt that way by the time I was 16 myself.

I don't think our biology has much care for the idea that age gaps are a problem.

Oh dear I suppose I think it’s funny.

Yes I think most men find young women ‘hottest’ and that’s what Carr was joking about. That and breaking taboos - by joking he’s acknowledged that it is a taboo. Attraction in terms of a relationship is more complex than that. I also think a big majority of men really wouldn’t go there in terms of actually dating someone 30 years younger. Though mostly because their mates would rip the piss out of them.

I’m only really attracted to men over 40, though tbh that still gives me a range at least 16 years younger than me. I don’t really think interchangeable young men that I’ve only seen pictures of are particularly ‘hot’. That probably is a bit different from the average man. Maybe I’m lucky that the men I’m with just show zero interest in other women, never mind extremely young women? It’s not that uncommon though, there are lots of nice men out there.

To be fair I think most men get more attractive with age as women not so much. But I'm a straight female so it might just be because im not attracted to women that I feel like this.

Yes OP I think most men are attracted to women in the age bracket of about 16 to 30.

That doesn't mean they are only attracted to them, or necessarily that they would want to date someone much younger, but I would think pretty much 100% of men find that age group very physically attractive.

Honestly I can't find it in me to let that bother me. Those are prime reproductive years for women, it would be pretty weird if the male of the species didn't find them attractive.

Look at porn for the answer, most blokes aren’t wanking off to size 16 50 year olds.

I know it is hard for MN to understand but not all or most men think the same, and you dont know anything about what they were thinking sure you can make up what you want to fit whatever agenda you have going on but not all men or even women fit whatever people have made up for them

Yep, this. They're literally built to be attracted to people who are most likely to be able to give them babies. Just like women are built to be attracted to men who can provide for us and our babies.

Of course things have changed with society and people make different decisions for various reasons, but basic biology and psychology will never change.

When my first husband and I were 30 he left me for a 17 year old. We'd just had a holiday to Centre Parks where he spent the whole week looking at , and commenting ( to me) on how 'fuckable' young women around the pool were. Some were 14. When I pointed out to him that the person in question was a young teen he was entirely unbothered.

I think 23 is peak female attractiveness to men.

Men are gross generally

Really im in my 30s and I find some 50 year old men really attractive but looking at any man under 25 grosses me out the older you get the younger everyone else looks. I just couldn't be attracted to much younger then me without seeing what looks like a 12 year olds. I think our brains are purposely built like this and paedophiles have something very wrong with their brains.