When I turned 18 I wanted to date an 18-20 year old. As a COLLÈGE student, I wasn't going to date a High Schooler...Seriously that felt like a step down.
When I turned 21 I didn't want to date someone I couldn't go to the bar with.
Now from 22-42 I was married to a fellow college student who was 30 days younger than me. We had kids careers, businesses, and moved a couple times. We lost grandparents, and our social circles changed as our kids went through school.
When I made myself single again at 42 I'd had all these experiences that an 18-21 year old would have no idea about. My seduction style is based on relating to the woman and her feeling like I understand her, and vice versa. My encounters went as young as 31. Always there was something we had in common that created her attraction and vice versa. I couldn't be arsed to put up with the immature VYW, who were clueless about life. Seriously it was a boner killer. Besides I was running ultra marathons with 50 year old female hardbodies that made those youngsters look like the Pillsbury doughboy. Talk about serious "pace bootie"...
There was a new female doctor I met who had just graduated from school 5 years ago at age 28. Single, never married, smart , pretty, avid about exercise. I met her with her parents, and I really related with her Dad and that really kinda killed the attraction for me...
Same with the 26 year old older sister of one of my daughter's classmate who sat behind me at my daughter's game and gave me a back rub... I seriously would have felt scuzzy asking her out. (20 year age difference).