I was just thinking about that expression.  I would qualify for that today based on the values I had when I was younger.  I'm not dirty.  I do enjoy sex with younger women, but that's largely because most women my age (68) are done with sex.  Does anyone know the origins of that expression?  I haven't heard it used in a long time, but maybe it's because my hearing is diminished.  Also, your thoughts about that expression.

But like you, I'm a "46" who loves younger women.  And thank god I'm young enough to still enjoy them.  I had some great fun with a 22-year-old, then took her to dinner at a high-end steak house with friends (another monger and his hooker date, who's also a buddy of mine) and was prepared for some old biddy to walk up and wag her finger at me, saying, "Shame on you!  She's young enough to be your daughter!"  My reply would have been, "Oh, no, madam! She is far too young to be my daughter!"
And that would have been true.
Life is good.

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A much more noble term, and a rare case of women getting better treatment than men on the sexual playing field.

I think "dirty old man", is just an ageist throwback and used to deny us horny old guys our sexual fulfillment.  A pox on the people who first uttered it.

For a rousing and ironic take on the term however, The Fugs (~1965) recorded this anthem:

your the  best! I was dancing to the music..cause I did not knkow how to sut it off ..
BUT LOVE THE LYRICS!!!!  "dirty ol man"    lol...

...to themselves as dirty old men during a date like a badge of honor lol.

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And do it the best! No matter how you cut it, they turn me into a dirty old man.

Well like I always say....

One man's cougar, is another man's sugar baby.

I first remember it from Arte Johnson on Laugh In. But I suppose it was already a cliché that he was exploiting.

Reminds me of the guy who asks his friend, "What's the difference between ignorance and arrogance?"
And his friend says, "I don't know and I don't care."

My SO constantly uses that term when referring to me. As far as I'm concerned I worked hard to get that title and I try my best to live up to it!

I intend to be a dirty old man until I'm a dead old man. 8o)

I think that's the difference between ignorance and apathy

I accomplished the dirty part many decades ago and now the old part is coming along nicely, thank you very much!

An old man checking out teenage girls in the park, while he sits with a newspaper in his lap. I think you can get the picture.

More common is a good old fashion lech, hitting on young women. My daughter, 24, was laughing about a "Dirty Old Man" who tried to hit on her and a friend. "Ewe dad and he was even older then you." She will never know that was the day I left her out of the will

Tor,
My daughter was telling me about her friend that was dating an old guy......he was 29.  All her friends went eewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!

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