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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Kate Mulvey

8 things I learnt (as a midlife woman) by dating much younger men

There was a time when an older woman going out with a much younger man was something unusual and a bit weird. But, the dating sands have shifted, and increasingly, middle aged women are not only choosing to step out with men much younger than they are, but are not embarrassed to shout from the rooftops about how amazing the sex is.

Only last week American actress Charlize Theron 49 raved on Alex Cooper’s, ‘Call her Daddy’ podcast that she’d had a hook up with a 23 year old and wasn’t fazed to trill how ‘It was really f------ amazing and I've never done that and I was like, 'Oh, this is great, okay.” And science backs this up. A new study published in the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy last month, says women who date younger men are having better sex lives than those who are with older men.

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