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As our generation gets a little older, a surprising number of us are putting on our dancing shoes and getting back in the senior dating game. As part of this singleton trend, more women over 60 are looking to meet men in their age group — but dating is different after 60 than it was in our younger years. It is a sad fact of life is that men tend not to live as long as women, and as a result, many countries have significantly more women than men above the age of According to this Huffington Post article on dating after 50 , the ratio of men to women shifts considerably as the years go by:. So if you are 60 now, the ratios suggest that it might be difficult to find a good single man your age.

By Amy Rose Spiegel. Well, as someone who not only has always been interested in older dudes, but has also dated quite a few of them, I have some things to say about your situation, question-askers. When I was 15, I was dating a year-old cue gasping. That, by the way, is actually a comparison I made at the time, which is so gross to me now. I romanticized a story about an adult man kidnapping, molesting, and raping an adolescent girl.

We had about twenty minutes before he had to leave for the airport. The image I had conjured of the thirty-two-year-old currently en route to my front door from our meager interaction on Grindr was as telling as a police report: an assumed age, height, and weight, as well as one scrupulously selected profile picture. And often enough, the photo too ended up a rough sketch.

In my life, I've often encountered a certain type of Western guy who was attracted to Asian women. He tended to be older, white and yes, creepy. I wanted to know why, so I set out to make a documentary. I'm also creating a companion project, " They're All So Beautiful ," an online video series and forum to discuss the nuances of race, romance and " yellow fever. Though the concept dates back centuries, dating Asian women, or, more accurately, the idea of dating Asian women, has officially gone mainstream.