I can't disagree with you a bit here. My wife recently turned 39 and I'd take her over any 20-something I've ever met in person. While she does look young for her age, I don't feel the creepiness I think I'd feel with anyone younger than her (I'm 44 years old).
Remember in high school, there was that one girl every school has who was dating a 20-something (or maybe even oldere than that)? I never understood that when I was a teen and I understand it even less now.
Must be a power thing for the guys who troll for the young ones.
A co-worker just the other day asked, "I wonder when guys like us became invisible to teen girls?" I looked at him oddly and said, "probably before they became invisible to me." If I saw a really pretty girl in her teens and I was single, I'd probably try to imagine what her Mon must look like.
Heh. I just turned 42, my wife turns 59 in a week and a half. People get our ages reversed all the time (I've seen far more of the world, and man's inhumanity to man, than she has. She was a cop before going out on disability for a blown ACL, I was SpecOps before getting profiled for a blown knee and retired.)
She's still maintained her youth, I was
born old.
Anyhow, just to show you where my preferences lie (my age/her age):
14/15 (we stayed together for three years - was still with her when we "picked up a third," briefly)
16/17/48 ("the third." interesting story that I really don't feel like going into now, but fun)
18/31 (I was home about one day a month, so not an exclusive relationship. She had a long-term FWB from before, timing sometimes got interesting with my skeds.)
21/25 (my "token psycho" - everybody needs to date one.)
25/42 (married her fifteen years ago.)
Erin - my first - was very mature for her age, wasn't into all that damned drama that girls are into now (and were then, in a limited fashion.) Things got fun after about a week, when I finally twigged that her dad was my dentist! ("If love is blind, it's because sometimes you can't see around your own erection.")
My wife is also my
tallest - at 5'2" (and just over a foot shorter than I am. I've long preferred small women.)