I like being the ' sweet young thing,' thank you very much!

I think it is a compliment but always have that question in the back of my mind on why when there are so many beautiful woman that are younger why me.

I admit that, for a short while, I dated a man almost 20 years younger than I was but I swear that was an accident

Having said all that, why would any REASONABLE flirtation or interest be turned down?
If you are trying to sell the house...you really can't complain about who comes to view it,can you?"

You wouldn't want to be hearing the words I would use to dismiss you bs. Love to watch a young buck realize that they have made a big error is judgment.....to funny to watch their butt moving quickly away

They can't get anywhere will women there own age so they figure old women will make easy marks if they just give them what you call a compliament.

If you're familiar with the movie "The Graduate", where a young Dustin Hoffman has an affair with the older and mature Mrs. Robinson, you may have a small grasp of why younger men sometimes like older women. Here in
America, it's rare but not uncommon for a younger man to be with an older woman. It's appealing. It's also
alluring. A mature woman provides several attractive qualities.

The allure comes in several forms:

1. Older women are taboo; taboos are attractive

It's a cultural taboo for a younger man to date a mature woman. It's usually the other way around: an older male with a younger female.

Much like the forbidden fruit, older women are theoretically off limits for younger guys. While it may be uncommon for a 21 year-old man to date a 31 year-old woman, it's certainly not illegal. People would probably view the interaction as a novelty.

2. Mature women make men feel more comfortable

Young women have less experience with men and tend to be less stable in general than older women. Men like women who make them feel comfortable, emotionally.

Also, as far as sexual maturity goes, women tend to peak in their late twenties, while men peak around age 18.

Young women may have hundreds of men chasing after them; this makes a young man feel the pressures of competition from other males.

Older women offer an alternative. It's nice to feel attractive; in the eyes of an mature woman, a young man may be a very attractive object.

3. Older women may be hunting for younger guys

There is a class of women known colloquially as "cougars", these women are typically professional, attractive, and earn middle-class incomes without the help of a man.
"Cougars" are women who may have been through a rough divorce and want the fun life of a single. "Cougars" tend to actively seek younger men, either at bars, on the internet, or in the work place.

4. Young men do not have much experience with women

Young men may simply not know what to expect with women. The rules of dating and relationships may be new territory to explore; it's helpful to have someone with experience. It's certainly nice to have a "take-charge" kind of women as a partner.

Of course their will always be older women who need compliaments, but they are the great minority who haven't had enough compliaments in their lives for people that it makes sense for them to want compliaments from so they look elsewhere.

A whopping 34 percent of women over 40 are dating younger men, according to a 2003 survey. The same poll, which surveyed 3,500 single people (both women and men) aged 40 to 69 years old, found that 56 percent are currently separated or divorced from a spouse, 31 percent have never been married, and seven in 10 (74 percent) of formerly married singles in their 50s have been single for five years or more.

Being a man who likes 'more mature women' I always fee alittle apprehensive about contacting older women as it can sometimes be hard to judge if a woman is open to the idea of being flatered and woowed by a younger man.

So do you find it a compliment or not to be contacted by a younger man? - Christopher_1980