"to elderly age who pursues younger men is a ""cougar"" or ""puma"", and a man in a relationship with an older woman is often called a ""boytoy"", ""toyboy"", ""himbo"", or ""cub"". In reverse, the terms ""rhino"", ""trout"" and ""manther"" (a play on the ""panther"" term for women) are generally used to label an older man pursuing younger women, and the younger woman in such a relationship may be called a ""kitten"" or ""panther"". If the woman is extremely young, the man may be labelled a ""cradle-snatcher"" (UK) or ""cradle robber"" (US) In gay slang, the term ""chickenhawk"" may be used."
"than eight years younger than they are, and to women over the age of 40 who aggressively pursue sexual relations with men in their 20s or 30s. However, the term can also refer to any female who has a male partner much younger than herself, regardless of their ages. A 2010 British psychological study published in ""Evolution and Human Behavior"" asserted that men and women, in general, continue to follow traditional gender roles when searching for mates, and thus concluded that the posited ""cougar phenomenon"" does not exist, or more precisely, exists but is rare. The study found that most"
"men. This factor is diminishing as more women enter the labour force and the gender pay gap decreases. Age-hypogamy defines a relationship where the woman is the older partner, the opposite of this being age-hypergamy. Marriage between partners of roughly similar age is known as ""age homogamy"". Older female–younger male relationships are, relative to age-hypergamous relationships (older male–younger female), less researched in scientific literature. Slang terms such as 'Cougar' have been used in films, TV shows and the media to depict older females with younger male mates. The picture often displays a stereotypical pairing of a divorced, middle-aged, white, affluent"
"is a person who prefers or exclusively dates men younger than he is. A ""spice queen"" is a gay/bisexual man, who prefers or exclusively dates Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi men. Spice refers to the primary ingredient in Indian cuisine. ""Queen bee"" is a gay slang term for the dominant member of a group of gay men. It is normally synonymous with the word ""bitch"". It is unclear whether the term is taken from the term applied to the leader of a female social group or literally from the insect world. A ""mashed potato"" is a Caucasian person who prefers or"
"sometimes singles out unmarried boys in their teens for their attention, then visits them at night to make love to them. If she does not leave the boy alone, he will become progressively weak until he dies in order to join her. She is also said to be always on the watch to attack other young mothers. In the guise of the enchantress, this ""femme fatale"" hunts for young men on highways and seduces the lone traveller to accompany her. Sometimes, she imprisons him in her lair in the graveyard, sucking his blood a little at a time. Sometimes, she"
"greater maximum age for a woman's partner later in her life than is actually socially acceptable. The age disparity between two partners is typically met with some disdain in industrialized nations, and various derogatory terms for participants have arisen in the vernacular. In English-speaking countries, where financial disparity, and an implicit money-for-companionship exchange, is perceived as central to the relationship, the elder of the two partners (perceived as the richer) is often called a ""sugar daddy"" or ""sugar mama"" depending on gender. The younger of the two is similarly called the sugar baby. In extreme cases, a person who marries"
"If the much-younger target of affections is not of the legal age of consent, the term ""jailbait"" may be applied to them, with connotations cautioning against involvement. An older term for any licentious or lascivious man is a ""lecher"", and that term and its shortening of ""lech"" have become common to describe an elderly man who makes passes at much younger women. Age disparity in sexual relationships Age disparity in sexual relationships is the difference in ages of individuals in sexual relationships. Concepts of these relationships, including what defines an age disparity, have developed over time and vary among societies."
"in non-western cultures, as well as when describing intersex and transgender people, especially those who are nonbinary or otherwise falling outside the gender binary. In a discussion of homosexuality, sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld divided men into four groups: paedophiles, who are most attracted to prepubescent youth, ephebophiles, who are most attracted to youths from puberty up to the early twenties; androphiles, who are most attracted to persons between the early twenties and fifty; and gerontophiles, who are most attracted to older men, up to senile old age. According to Karen Franklin, Hirschfeld considered ephebophilia ""common and nonpathological, with ephebophiles and androphiles"
"term describing ""hot older ladies pouncing on their young prey"". Liz agrees and goes on a successful date with Jamie; the pair agree to go on a second date. Prior to this second date, Liz goes to Jamie's apartment only to discover that Jamie still lives with his mother, who looks exactly like Liz. Frank begins to question his sexuality when he realizes that he has a crush on Jamie. He even tries to, unsuccessfully, rival Liz to go on a date with Jamie. Later, Frank realizes that the only man he is attracted to is Jamie and decides that"
"Hirschfeld, ""androphilia"" and ""gynephilia"" are sometimes used in taxonomies which specify sexual interests based on age ranges, which John Money called chronophilia. In such schemes, sexual attraction to adults is called teleiophilia or adultophilia. In this context, ""androphilia"" and ""gynephilia"" are gendered variants meaning ""attraction to adult males"" and ""attraction to adult females,"" respectively. Psychologist Dennis Howitt writes: Definition is primarily an issue of theory, not merely classification, since classification implies a theory, no matter how rudimentary. Freund ""et al."" (1984) used Latinesque words to classify sexual attraction along the dimensions of sex and age: Gynephilia. Sexual interest in physically"
"revived by Ray Blanchard to denote adults who sexually prefer 15- to 19-year-olds. Mid-to-late adolescents usually have physical characteristics near (or, in some cases, identical) to that of fully-grown adults; psychiatrist and sexologist Fred Berlin states that most men can find persons in this age group sexually attractive, but that ""of course, that doesn't mean they're going to act on it. Some men who become involved with teenagers may not have a particular disorder. Opportunity and other factors may have contributed to their behaving in the way they do"". According to psychologist and sexologist James Cantor, it is ""very common"
"female dating a younger male with the relationship taking the form of a non-commitment arrangement between the partners. Although age-hypogenous relationships have historically been very infrequent, recent US census data has shown an increase in age-hypogenous relationships from 6.4% in 2000 to 7.7% in 2012. There may be many reasons why age-hypogamous relationships are not very frequent""."" Sexual double standards in society, in particular, may account for their rarity. Ageing in women is associated with decreased sex appeal and dating potential. There is debate in the literature as to what determines age-hypogamy in sexual relationships. A number of variables have"
"old senior who's writing a book on the sex drive of men ages 14-30, for which she has sex with various men as research and films every encounter. She then reveals that the previous night she had sex with Shannon Hamilton, a 25-year-old clothing-store manager who hates Brodie because of his ""lack of a shopping agenda."" Brodie then learns that Rene has begun a relationship with Shannon. Brodie confronts Rene to find out more about the relationship, and the two have sex in an elevator. Brodie is later abducted and attacked by Shannon, who intends to have sex with Rene"
"women age 18–25 years felt they were at low risk of acquiring an STD. People both consciously and subconsciously seek to attract others with whom they can form deep relationships. This may be for companionship, procreation, or an intimate relationship. This involves interactive processes whereby people find and attract potential partners and maintain a relationship. These processes, which involve attracting one or more partners and maintaining sexual interest, can include: Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract the sexual"
"partner. The popular slang ""cougar"" refers to a woman who seeks sexual relations with considerably younger men. The term ""fallen woman"" was used to describe a woman who has ""lost her innocence"", and fallen from the grace of God. In Victorian Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the ""loss or surrender of a woman's chastity"". Its use was an expression of the belief that to be socially and morally acceptable a women's sexuality and experience should be entirely restricted to marriage, and that she should also be under the supervision and care of an authoritative man."
"""a modern usage resulting from a misunderstanding of the original term and ignorance of its historical implications."" Academic and social studies sources propose more expansive definitions of the term. The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture defines the term as: ""The erotic relationship between an adult male and a youth, generally one between the ages of twelve and seventeen, in which the older partner is attracted to the younger one who returns his affection."" The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality suggests ""Pederasty is the erotic relationship between an adult male and a boy, generally one between the ages of"
"monopolising a female's lifetime reproductive resources. Consistent with findings, for both short term and long term mates, males prefer younger females (reproductively valuable). As they are the higher investing sex, females tend to be slightly more demanding when picking a mate (as predicted by parental investment theory). They also tend to have a more difficult task of evaluating a male's reproductive value accurately based on physical appearance as age tends to have fewer constraints on a male's reproductive resources. Buss attributed the older age preference to older males displaying characteristics of high providing-capacity such as status and resources. In terms"
"associated with older males such as facial masculinity and cheek-bone prominence. Buss and Schmitt found similar female preferences for long term mating which supports the notion that for long term relationships females prefer cues of high resource capacity, one of which is age. Cross-culturally, research has consistently supported the trend in which males prefer to mate with younger females, and females with older males. In a cross-cultural study that covered 37 countries, preferences for age differences were measured and research supported the theory that people prefer to marry close to the age when female fertility is at its highest (24–25"
"Matron literature Matron literature (also known as hen lit) is a literary genre which focuses on older female characters as protagonists. The genre has increased in popularity as the baby boomers have aged and female readers have sought characters to identify with. Subjects are often romantic in nature, and heroines are usually between the ages of 45 and 65. Matron lit characters were often married at one point, but are no longer with their spouses or living with their children. There are usually feminist themes in matron literature, though some works are more overtly feminist than others. Matron literature has"
"men extends back a lot further through history to notable figures including Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I. Cougar (slang) Cougar is slang for a woman who seeks sexual activity with significantly younger men. The origin of the word ""cougar"" as a slang term is debated, but it is thought to have originated in Western Canada and first appeared in print on the Canadian dating website Cougardate.com. It has also been stated to have ""originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a put-down for older women who would go to bars and go home with whoever was left at the"
"Ageplay Ageplay or age play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts or treats another as if they were a different age. Ageplay is roleplaying between adults, and involves consent from all parties. Ageplay can be sexual or non-sexual, it all depends on what people agree to within their relationship. Portraying any age can be the goal of ageplay, from babies, to the elderly. Usually this involves someone pretending to be younger than they actually are, but more rarely can involve assuming an older role. Ageplay can be sexual. It may be mildly sexual, or very sexual."
"is used for sex by the larger group and comes to view this as the norm. The abuse can involve being gang raped by dozens of men during one event. Victims are often trafficked to other towns, where sexual access to the child might be ""sold"" to other groups. According to one victim, the perpetrators prefer children aged 12–14. As they get older, the group loses interest and may expect the child to supply younger children in exchange for continued access to the group, on which the child has come to rely for drugs, alcohol, a social life, ""affection"", or"
"countries, the older-man-younger-woman arrangement is seen as permissible, sometimes with benefits. It's looked on more positively in the U.S. than in China; older men are described as more knowledgeable sexually and intellectually, supportive, skilled in the ways of women, and financially more secure so there's ""no more going Dutch."" In China, older men with younger women are more likely to be described as ""weird uncles"" rather than ""silver foxes."" One Beijing professor reportedly advised his male students to delay dating: A notable example of the older-woman-younger-man is Demi Moore pairing with 15-years-her-junior Ashton Kutcher. Older women in such relations have"
"Genetic sexual attraction Genetic sexual attraction is a concept in which a strong sexual attraction may develop between close blood relatives who first meet as adults. There is no direct evidence for ""genetic attraction"" being an actual phenomenon and the hypothesis has been criticized as pseudoscience. The term was coined in the US in the late 1980s by Barbara Gonyo, the founder of ""Truth Seekers In Adoption"", a Chicago-based support group for adoptees and their new-found relatives. She developed sexual feelings for her son when she met him after he was adopted away, but he did not want to be"
"for regular men to be attracted to 18-year-olds or 20-year-olds. It's not unusual for a typical 16-year-old to be attractive to many men and the younger we go the fewer and fewer men are attracted to that age group."" ""Ephebophilia"" is used only to describe the ""preference"" for mid-to-late adolescent sexual partners, not the mere presence of some level of sexual attraction. Generally, the preference is not regarded by psychologists as a pathology when it does not interfere with other major areas of one's life, and is not listed by name as a mental disorder in the ""Diagnostic and Statistical"
"the master of the harem and/or the other women, as a form of sexualized social bonding, as a way of ""training"" new members, or in the cases of women who would otherwise consider themselves strictly heterosexual, then simply because there are no available men to become intimate with. While ""harem"" refers to the now largely antiquated practice of a very wealthy or influential man, such as a king or emperor, taking many wives and sometimes consorts, all of whom are kept largely confined to a residence or a sectioned-off part of a residence, and forbidden from interacting with men other"
"Gerontophilia Gerontophilia is the primary sexual attraction to the elderly. A person with such a sexual preference is a gerontophile. The word ""gerontophilia"" was coined in 1901 by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. It derives from Greek: geron, meaning ""old man or woman"" and philie, meaning ""love"". Gerontophilia is classified as a paraphilia, but is not mentioned in the ""Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"" or International Classification of Diseases. The prevalence of gerontophilia is unknown. A study of pornographic search terms on a peer-to-peer network reported that 0.15% had gerontophilic themes. Sex offenders with elderly victims do not necessarily"
"about sex. Mother tries to be helpful in explaining topics such as orgasms and consent, while Grandmother wails that Li'l Bit is too young to know about sex and uses scare tactics to keep her from doing it until she is married. The adult Li'l Bit breaks the memory to explain that she went on to have a one-night stand with a seventeen-year-old boy while she was twenty-seven, experiencing the allure of young flesh that her uncle once felt. She then returns to the memory, which turns into an argument between Mother and the Grandparents. Unable to deal with that"
"boys for his sexual pleasure. The usage was publicized by members of the controversial group NAMBLA in the 1994 documentary film """", although ""Time"" magazine reported it in this sense in 1975. The use and significance of this term have been the subject of academic discussions and popular reports. Chickenhawk (gay slang) A chickenhawk or chicken hawk is slang used in American and British gay culture to denote older males who prefer younger males for partners, who may less often be called ""chickens"", ""i.e."", the prey of the chickenhawk. Other variations include chicken queen and chicken plucker. It is sometimes"
"sexual lifestyles and frank sexual discussion among seniors. The concept of active sexual relationships between older people has in recent years become a more mainstream topic. The film ""Something's Gotta Give"" starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton explores the relationship that develops between two people in later life. The HBO series ""Tell Me You Love Me"" has caused controversy by showing several explicit sex scenes involving two senior citizen actors on the show, Jane Alexander and David Selby. Presently old aged sex is understood and increasingly accepted in society. On a related topic, intergenerational relationships, also quite taboo, were the"
"Macrophilia Macrophilia is a fascination with or a sexual fantasy involving giants, more commonly expressed as giantesses (female giants). It is typically a male fantasy, with the male playing the ""smaller"" part—entering, being dominated, or being eaten by the larger woman. Others involve partners who naturally have a significant difference in size. Although macrophilia literally translates to simply a ""lover of large,"" in the context of a sexual fantasy, it is used to mean someone who is attracted to beings larger than themselves. Generally, the interest differs between people, and depends on gender and sexual orientation. They often enjoy feeling"
"some will use it to refer to the husband of a trophy wife, as he is her trophy due to the wealth and prestige he brings her. In the latter case, the term trophy is broadened to include any substantial difference in power originating from physical looks, wealth, or status. It should be noted that the trophy label is often perceived as objectifying the partner, with or without the partner's implicit consent. Where the primary perceived reason for a relationship with a significant age difference is sexual, many gender-specific terms have become popular in English-speaking cultures. A woman of middle"
"forced to marry another man. Many have claimed to see this spirit, always after eight o'clock in the evening. She usually appears to children under eight years old, heart-broken teenage boys, and elderly men. While she tells the children goodnight and bids them to return home, she advises the teenagers to ""find another"" or to join her and become a part of her ""shadow"" (her ghostly followers). She also attempts to lure elderly men into her ""shadow"". ""Vrouwen in wit"" (plural of ""vrouw in wit""), or ""witte wieven"" as these women are called in local dialects, are mythical creatures of"