Mrxp
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Joined: 7/18/2010 Status: offline
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The original question was "where is the ethical line", so I do not think that it makes sense to be talking about age police, in any way other than as a joke. Still, ethics is always a murky issue. I think that besides imposing some legal lower limits, modern western societies are not concerned very much with the age difference of sex partners, they leave the ethical question rather open, so it is mostly up to each individual person to decide what is appropriate for themselves. I often come across women who like much older men, and I think I discern a greater tendency towards this among sub women. When I was younger, I found this frustrating. Now that I am older, I find it convenient. C-:= If you care what others think of you, then you may want to consider staying below the 10 year bracket, because age differences greater than this, or even approaching this, tend to cause feathers to ruffle in family and social circles. I live in a rather uptight and conservative society, and yet nobody frowned upon the fact that my ex was 8.5 years younger than me; however, if she was any younger there would have been some sour faces. If you care to hear what others consider appropriate for themselves, so as to form an opinion of what you should consider ethical, (even though I am not sure I would advise a do-as-others-do approach,) I can tell you that I like younger ladies, even much younger ladies, for many reasons, there is no question about it, but I draw the line at about 18 years of difference: as I state on my profile, she should not be young enough to be my daughter. (In actuality she would need to be even a bit older, because another requirement of mine is education, but that's another story.) And of course I would certainly obey the legal limit, I just do not have to be concerned with it anymore since I am old enough that a girl 18 years younger than me would still be of legal age.
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