Chicagoist: Ask Chicagoist: How Old Is Too Old?

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:02:54 -0600

@ez: In your honor, I am going to start commenting on LAist.

ezfinn

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:18:12 -0600

I fall for Spav everytime I see her call someone an a-hole and then tells them to fall in a river. sigh.

happyfunball

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:20:38 -0600

And Mary Sunshine is AMAZING in the sack. So yeah... listen to her.

Jess D'Amico

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:55:10 -0600

spav, this might be one of the times we agree. Younger men are definitely the way to go. I'm not sure about a 17 yr old, but those college freshmen? yum.

Mary_Sunshine

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:02:19 -0600

Spav...You're insane! You said fucking was in one of your top 5 things earlier. It's been awhile since I had a 17 year old in bed, but from what I remember, they don't know jack.

Ingrid

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:35:29 -0600

I hate 'rules' like this. Who is anyone to tell me who I can or cannot, should or should not be with? Although I do have say that the comment "Doesn't say fucked up shit like 'I had such a long day, I can't', when I try to have sex with you twice in one night"....to me that kind of implies that you're young and energetic and the one who is claiming to be too tired is old and lethargic. I have some experience on this subject as I was dating a guy young enough to be my son recently and I've got to say that he was the most lethargic I've ever experienced...sexually speaking. It was a pretty disappointing experience and made me realize that being young doesn't necessarily mean that you have energy and creativity. This number stuff is so arbitrary as to be ridiculous. I see boys at my son's high school with receding hairlines and paunchy stomachs. I see their future sitting in front of a tv on a barcalounger with beer can permanently in hand. There is no perfect number. There is only what is perfect for you and what is perfect for me, and those are probably two waaaaay different things.

celerysalt

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:33:15 -0600

Spav, I am 7 years older than my boyfiend. And let me tell you - you and me? We're on to something.

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:29 -0600

I didn't say that was my math. 17 is just my cut off age. Arbitrarily decided. Has a car? Check. Toned from highschool sports? Check Not OVER toned from immasculating competitions at Equinox? Check. Doesn't say fucked up shit like "I had such a long day, I can't" when I try to have sex with you twice in one night? Check Is crazy grateful? Check 17 is the PERFECT age, if it is a dude. 17 for a girl and the dude is 24 or 25? That is creep-tastic.

celerysalt

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:53:14 -0600

Having visited the Viagra triangle (by accident, of course), I think this appropriate for Chicagoist.

Pinko

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:49:15 -0600

12 + 7 = 19 Just watching the clock and counting the minutes till I can bust outta here. On days like this, I've become increasingly dependent on your acerbic wit for distraction...

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:37:45 -0600

Pinko: You are becoming increasingly obsessed with me. I am 24.

Pinko

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:35:14 -0600

Looks like Spav still gets to go to senior prom this year... Wouldn't that make you only 20? Use a fake I.D. to get into Sheffield's?

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:26:38 -0600

Mine's 17.

AlbanyParkist

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:21:18 -0600

Bedpan by that accounting a 90 year old man's lowest dating age is 52. Weird. My number is 21ish. I have no interest in dating someone to whom legal drinking is a new-fangled idea.

bedpan

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:48:37 -0600

i've always heard the silly rule is 1/2 your age, +7. so like, i'm 27, so 13.5 + 7 = 20.5 is the lowest age i could date. makes sense to me, although it's incredibly arbitrary.

dayofthedaleks

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:24:19 -0600

All I have to say is... ...where the older women at?

just_saying

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:02:21 -0600

It's not so much the absolute age difference as it is the actual ages of the individuals. For example, there is quite a difference between two people who are 15 and 30 than there would be between two people aged 40 and 55. In each case, there is the same 15 years difference.

groggy

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:55:18 -0600

as a product of a marriage with 14.5 years of age difference, i whole-heartedly support this post!

Jacy Wojcik

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:50:03 -0600

peteypants- haha- point taken. chicagoan. i like to cram as many vowels into my words as possible, clearly...

Pinko

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:28 -0600

I thought it was helpful, to the extent that I now know how much younger I can date per Cosmo...

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:45:06 -0600

Hey a-hole. I meant to say that all other Ask Chicagoist questions have been about the city of Chicago i.e "Where can I do this?" or "What does this mean?" questions; not bland, retarded questions that I would read in the Red Eye. Have you been to Margaret Lyons Camp? Because this is her EXACT rationale for everything on this site: We don't report on McCain because he isn't from Chicago, but we will do column after column on Google and the Oscars because people IN CHICAGO USE GOOGLE AND WATCH THE OSCARS. Fall in the river.

peteypants

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:43:21 -0600

chicagoian? you must not be a chicagoan then. i thought it was a fun post. its relevant to the younger people, or older people that date them, that would be reading chicagoist anyway. i was hoping for something more savage love inspired, but thales gives great advice!

Jacy Wojcik

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:37:17 -0600

It has to do with Chicago because Chicagoians date. And it's a legit dating question. And it was sent to "Ask Chicago." By a Chicagoian. Chicago.

Spav1

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:29:20 -0600

What does this question have to do with Chicago? And how are you qualified to give relationship advice? Are you some kind of social worker? VOIR DIRE!!!