What people who are losing their physical attractiveness to age are sometimes able to do is to manipulate much younger people into having sexual relationships with them. By the time that you're 30, you know a lot about the world that you didn't when you were 20. By the time that you're 40, you know so much more about the world than a 20-year-old that it could take years for someone who starts a relationship with you at 20 to realize that you have taken advantage of him or her.
I have never wanted to be like that; I didn't want that sort of relationship when I was 20, and I don't want that sort of relationship now that I'm even older than 40.
For the older person to take the desire of the younger person at face value, to pretend not to know that the younger person doesn't really understand what he or she is asking to have, is a form of manipulation; it is irresponsible and selfish.
Copyright L. Kochman, June 24, 2016 @ 1:04 a.m.
