Boortz, yesterday; [1]
Would someone please slap me the next time I try to bring something like this up on the air? What the hell was I thinking! Look, I was just trying to do a little favor for some of my contemporaries.
What story? Well, evidently someone did some research in Great Britain. Some twenty-something young ladies who had (been fortunate enough to have had) sexual experiences with older men were asked whether they preferred younger or older men in the sack. The answer? Older men! Not just a few years older, but 30 or more years older.
So … idiot that I am … I asked some young ladies with such experiences to call in and either validate or debunk the British study. Yeah … that really worked out well. Like I said, someone slap me the next time I bring this up.
By the way .. this isn’t hard to figure out. Older men are so durned grateful and are eager to prove themselves.
Well, there is that.
Granted that you’re asking questions of perception, here, but it seems to be some scientific control on the questions and answers would produce dramatically different results. Such couplings don’t often happen, and the reason is the appallingly low success rate.
As to why the Brits got the answers they did; My take is most women who would go back quite so far and call themselves unsuccessful at it, would probably not be quite so willing to admit the failure, or even respond to such questions. Further, the ones bold enough to go back quite so far would probably be more apt to call themselves a success. Loudly so if they were in fact one of those rare successes. And I suspect they’d be more willing to gloss over what failures there were.
There is also I suppose a difference in our cultures where thiers holds older people in a different light than does our own. I wonder if in a scientific poll in each country the numbers would be remarkably different. I suspect they would be.
My own secondhand experience with such relationships is that they have not proven to be very satisfactory, over time. Given that we are dealing with a secondhand experience, I can only observe from the outside and say that the younger woman involved was almost invariably, not the brightest bulb in the circuit, shall we say.