Hi Pat,
BG again.
After you refocused your thread regarding young females being considered more attractive instinctually by males primarily for the reason of reproductive purposes, this thread nagged on me a bit. I'm certainly no social scientist, nor an expert on evolution, I know that humans are driven by many "forces", sex being one of, if not the most, powerful. I would like to think that because we have been given brains with reasoning ability, we (they) have evolved beyond being compelled mainly by, for lack of better words: Animal drive.
For instance, a male may meet a young, extremely attractive, female in her primary childbirthing years . In short, she's a hot babe, physically, and he wants her BAD. The feeling is mutual on her end. However, not to rush things, they take the time to get to know each other. Hence, the dating ritual begins. To keep it short, he finds out she's an idiot, and hopefully, instead of just shagging until he tires of her, he uses his brain (Well, I can WISH can't I?) and drops her like a sack of potatoes because the physical attractiveness isn't enough to keep him interested and make her the Mama of his children.
Yes, I know that, unfortunately, many men just go for the sex only to deeply regret later when they end up having kids with the woman, that in the end, they can hardly stand the sight of.
(Flying by the seat of my pants here, so hang on with me)
Porn also comes to mind. Although, I think that a young female's naivity plays a big part of why mostly very young girls are used, perhaps evolution does play into a males preference of why most of them prefer to look at young girls. Young girls also touted sometimes as "Barely Legal Teens". Though, I do take into consideration that males are highly visual, and that a young female is not going to bare the physical "life scars", and lump and bumps, that many of us mature women have.
To address your last post on this thread I would agree that to watch TV one would think that sex stops at 40. It's really a shame that the message sent is that older women cease to be sexual beings past a certain age. And, quite frankly, it's just not true.
I will throw out a couple of reasons why TV and movies only show the young being intimate. First off: Money. The age 24 to 39 is considered the primary "spending" years to advertisers and marketers. They are also they ones that go to the movie theaters. Espeically, males. To attract viewers in that age bracket, they use young actors. Of course, they advertise the corresponding products they want that age group to buy: Cool stuff (not Viagra)
Another might be that of what is ingrained into us culturally. Those TV shows are mainly written by those under 40. Perhaps mature sex is just not something they don't feel comfortable writing about and exploring. You know, kinda like picturing your parents having sex.
So, there are some of my random thoughts on this thread other than that little ditty that I posted.
I was just wondering the other day where you'd gone!
Thank you so much for posting that comment. It meant so much to me. Especially, coming from such a class act on this forum. Oh, I'm around here and there. Usually, "there", but always lurking. So many times, and I know that many here can relate, I feel invisible. And to be noticed for NOT posting..way cool.
BTW: Been raining two days straight here out in "sunny" Palm Springs. Ugh!
Say Hi to Big Sis.
Andee
Edited by - BeautifulGarbage on 13 February 2003 0:35:28