November 26, 2007...12:10 pm
Breaking A Different Glass Ceiling
May/December relationships are generally thought of as being an older man and younger woman. The older, wiser man, carrying on a tradition as long as human history itself. From Yahoo News comes a story with a bit of a twist.
It seems that Kenya is becoming the hot-spot for the older woman [read senior citizen type] to find nubile young men [read 20 somthings] to spend ‘quality’ time with. Amazing. It is apparenlty becoming all the rage for women of independent means to while away the days with a trendy new boy-toy.
They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is “just full of big young boys who like us older girls.”
What are they thinking? There are diseases out there that not only will kill you [HIV/AIDS] but that Clorox won’t wash off! Maybe this has to do with being old. The ladies in the story are 56 and 64 years old. Don’t get me wrong, I hope I’m still enjoying a good love-life when I hit those ages, but I can’t imagine even ME buying it. Not only that, but buying it from a fella I don’t know!
According to the story Kenya has some other sex-trade problems. Primarily the kind where men buy the time of teenage girls and boys. Knowing this, I would give the ol’ raised eyebrow to ANYONE who tells me they are visiting Kenya on vacation.
I don’t get too worked up about consentual sex between teenagers. I mean in all honesty, humans have only regarded sex at that age a problem in the last 100 years or so. Before that, you married as teens, started your families as soon as egg meets sperm and go on your merry way. In the last 100 years we’ve studied the biology, started living longer and have figured out that you can get in a lot of living before children come along, and still do ok. But it takes generations to change humans.
It took us how long to learn to walk upright? It took how long for us to invent the wheel? We used horses how long before Al Gore invented th internal combustion engine? And socially, there are still huge amounts of the world who feel women are inferior to men, when the facts are that women aren’t. Yes, men and women have differences, but one inferior to the other? I think not.
I don’t approve of people dating someone young enough to be their child. There’s just something wrong with that. Although, men can father children much longer than women can bear them.
Plus, I’m too old to start training another one.
2 Comments
November 26, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I wonder what the Kenyan word for “cougar” is????
November 27, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I can’t imagine anyone thinking “I wanna go to the continent with the most rampant AIDS epidemic and buy me some sex”!
On the age-heterogamous relationships (swear to God, that’s the term people who study those kinds of relationships use), I did a paper on it in grad school because my Curmy (the curmudgeon and beloved husband) is 16 years older than me and my ex-husband (Satan himself) was 9 years younger than me. Believe it or not, studies find that May-December marriages stay together above the national average. (The fact that I’ve had two of them, though, seems to disprove that a little.)
No one studies January-December romances. All I need to do is picture Anna Nicole riding on the handlebars of that ancient millionaire’s Hoverround to get skeezed out.
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