Jesus.. goes to show how many women on here have very closed social circles.
Mine (i'm 43) has a very big age range, they go from 18 up to 60-ish, and while i have a core group of friends who're mostly 30-45 who i spend most of my time with, there is also a smaller group who i think the youngest just turned 21, and there's me and someone else who are in our early 40s and a few other parents in their late 30s.
Most of the guys who are 23+ are in full time employment, have their own homes, own cars and act/operate like fully card holding adults, and unless you ASK their age, it wouldn't occur to you that they're 23/24 at all. It also flips the other way, most of them don't clock i'm 43, and i've been asked to produce my driving licence to prove it more than once as they assume i'm only in my early 30s myself.
When you're an adult, age is irrelevant, its the mental/emotional maturity and power balance between you that counts.. which is why at 38/39 i turned down the 24/25yo, but when he came back at 27 i said yes... he did a hell of a lot of maturing in those 2 years (works as a paramedic tech and those 2 years were over covid) but he wasn't looking for a one-off, he wanted more, and i can tell you, that despite the age gap, he is very much 'in charge' when we're together.
The only time it flips the other way is when he's looking for sensible advice, and he'd rather talk to me about it than his friends in their 20s. He is also probably one of the most understanding, nicest, easy to talk to people i know, with a level of emotional maturity my exH (his is in his 50s) never possessed.