*Editor’s note: Names of a few of the interviewees have now been changed for privacy.
Annette Wheeler* didn’t remember the precise minute she first heard the word “cougar,” but she did keep in mind dashing to her computer to appear it. To her surprise and bemusement, there is a brand new term to explain exactly exactly exactly what she have been doing the majority of her life — dating younger guys.
For several ladies, more youthful men — lots of them 15 years or maybe more their juniors — certainly are a fit that is natural.
Wheeler, a fiery redhead whom lives outside Baltimore, leaned right back inside her chair and sighed. “i enjoy younger men,” the 60-year-old purred. “I liked more youthful dudes even if I became in senior school — like an or two younger year. I became a cougar before there have been cougars.”
Certainly, Wheeler’s pre-marriage and post-divorce dating history reads such as a screenplay that is steamy. She listed a sequence of teenage boys with who she had different relationships, periodically punching figures in to a calculator to ascertain age distinctions she had never ever considered into the first place. She never ever analyzed her attraction to more youthful males (or their attraction to her), however with “cougar” a term that is increasingly popular to explain older women dating much younger men, her longtime preference is instantly within the limelight. [Read more...]