I just learned from this insipid post that any man who violates the 1/2 your age plus 7 rule is a creep. The rule means that you can probably get a woman who is half your age plus 7 years. Beyond that, it’s going to very hard to get a younger woman. So at my age, 57, the youngest woman I could get reasonably would be a 35-36 year old.
- At age 50, you can get a woman 32+
- At age 40, you can get a woman age 27+
- At age 30, you can get a woman age 22+
By the time you are 24, 18 year olds are already out of reach, and you can only get women aged 19+.
I suspect the rule does not work so well at the lower end.
There are men who can violate this rule. But those men have to have something going on that makes them stand out from other men their age. This is because most younger women do not want a man so much older that he breaks that rule.
Why? Because young women don’t really want old guys. They want older men, but not old men. By the time you hit middle age, the whole group of women aged 18-26 has already lost interest and you are an old man. I am perfectly aware that to most women aged 18-23 or so, I am now an old man. I am not even Daddy anymore, I am getting to the point where I am Gramps!
What this means is that because women usually do not want a man so much older that he breaks the rule because he is “too old” for them, the only who will be able to break this rule will have to have so something so special about them that will make them stand out and will make her be tempted to violate the rule.
That means he must have:
1. Status
2. Money
3. Power
4. Fame
Barring all of those, he will need:
5. Great game or fantastic game.
6. Good looks would be a definite plus, especially if an older man looks and acts much younger than his age.
Note that 1-4 are pretty much all wrapped up in each other, though that’s not always the case. In particular, you can be slightly famous and broke. Apparently I am a good example of this.
Anyway, for the last few years, I have been breaking the rule. Actually much before then. In my early 40’s, I had 18 year old girlfriends. The rule says I could not get below 27-30.
For the past few years, I have been involved with some women aged 26-29. I haven’t the faintest idea how I am accomplishing this seemingly impossible task. Perhaps I have good game; I have no idea. I think I may have had good game since age 19 or so, but I never thought much about it. Perhaps I have “natural game”; I really do not know because at this point all of that behavior is simply my normal way of being. I don’t even have to think about it.
I think I am a “bad boy” because women have been telling me that since adolescence, and I still hear it to this day. I will probably still be a bad boy when I am in my 80’s. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Anyway, according to the laws of attraction, I am a creep. I never knew being a creep could be so much fun.