hey, I'm 58, been in the bar scene almost 40 yrs. let me tell you something. you don't score on a cougar. they score on you. I've seen more bewildered young men hauled out of bars by older gals than I care to count. the young men are like "deer caught in the headlights". I've even been slapped by a cougar or two for comments, like "take it easy on him, he's barely shaving or "don't make his first piece his last piece", or "don't turn into a homo."
Well, this may be true, it's also possible to seduce an older woman, which is what this man's question is. Possibly he shouldn't have used the word "cougar." He wants to seduce an older woman and convince her to teach him everything she knows.
Being from an older generation, you may not be aware that nowadays the use of the term "cougar" has changed. Women in their 30s definitely don't call themselves cougars anymore, they think it's an insulting term. I was called one by a man I've known since he was 17, but is now 26, and who was obviously flirting with me. I was offended. Two days later, it happened again with a 29 year old man! By now, I've just decided that the generation behind mine has decided I've reached "that age" and men in that generation seem to think it's a magic word that will make me chase them.
I've asked lots of men and women about this in the past few months, actually I think I've asked ever single person I know since being insulted with this term three times, and this is what I've learned:
1. The only people who regularly use it are young men.
2. 100% of the women I asked thought the term was extremely insulting. It says to a woman that she's old and she's acting like a slut. Trust me, you can't get a woman to sleep with you if that's what she's hearing from you, "old slut." So don't make that mistake. Women want to feel beautiful and sexy, not like you see them as old and trashy. Seriously, for a woman in my generation, possibly the sexiest thing you could say would be to sincerely utter this sentence, "I think you look like you're 26 years old."
3. Guys seemed to think that it was a compliment! One male friend consoled my bruised ego by saying, "Hey, no one ever calls an unattractive woman a cougar!" That actually made me feel a little better.
I'm going to add another suggestion to the ones I've already given:
Pursue her the way you would a woman your own age. If an older woman is interested, she's not just interested in your youthful good looks, she probably also wants to feel younger herself. If you act like she's an older woman when you're around her, she won't feel younger, she'll feel even older than she does when you aren't around! She doesn't want to feel like you're "aware" of your age difference all the time. She wants to have fun.
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