In the olden days, society’s law was strict. Women would only marry men older than themselves. Today, the line of age is much more blurred. PLUS we don’t have to marry guys any more! It has become more acceptable to find the kind of lover you need at the particular life stage you are at. Due to the high divorce rate in contemporary society, there are a large number of divorcees and broken families, and this is creeping into the norm for many people’s lives. So it makes sense that the requirements for the type of lovers we seek are also becoming more flexible.

For a start, a lot of women are now looking for a ‘booty call’, once purely the domain of men. But we are asserting ourselves, and looking out for number one for a change. We have realized that if we don’t want all the crap that comes with looking after a man and his ego, we’re happy to just get a bit on the side.  It all started a few years ago, when glamour women of New York started dating younger guys, nicknamed ‘toy boys’. Men have always gotten the ‘tick of approval’ when it comes to dating gorgeous younger women, and it’s about time the tables turned. The growing acceptance of older women dating younger men may have something to do with the rising status of women in today’s society.

Many women are now completely independent of men, and so we are slowly starting to advance on men’s terrain. For years it has been more socially acceptable for older men to hook up with younger women but not vice versa. Well it seems things are finally starting to change with the improvement in gender equality. So women are realizing that they don’t need men that are older, have more life experience and are more financially stable, like they traditionally did. If a woman has all these attributes herself, well, what does she need a man for? That’s where the purity of love comes in, regardless of what a man earns or where he’s at in life. You could learn to love in the simplest form, without unnecessary complications.

This is where women have learnt to fall in love with the toy boys, and things that used to matter, such as financial status of the men, have either taken a back seat or been thrown out of the car altogether. Celebrity couples such as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have all paved the way for the acceptance of younger male lovers. These kinds of relationships simply weren’t feasible in the past, as women needed the men to earn the bread and help them move out of the family home. Therefore it simply wasn’t practical to be with a younger man as they couldn’t provide for the needs of their women.

Thankfully nowadays women are earning money and respect in their own right and should be rewarded accordingly! Haven’t women always looked after the men anyway?? It would be very liberating to break down the walls of societal condemnation and accept the love of a young soul. So the next time you are confronted with a situation where you are approached by a younger man, take the plunge and you may find you are pleasantly surprised. After all, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities not limited by parameters such as age.