Growly, I have two suitors currently, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s. Both very smart and I find them attractive. One is slim (in his 20s) and the other is too slim (a walking skeleton). I weigh 227 lbs being 5.5 (I don't look quite as heavy because for some reason, hopefully dense bones, I always look less heavy than the numbers - when I weighed 150, people thought that I weighed 120). So this example shows that young men do get interested in older women and that weight is no hurdle. My bf is 5 years older than me, slim, and in awe of my assets - "just make sure you don't lose your roundness" were his words recently. I know or have seen pictures of several other women he had been in relationship with. Two are zaftig, one is extra svelte, and one is medium shaped. His preference, he says, is for zaftigness.

Statistically, men do tend to get interested in younger women more frequently than in older women, but it does not mean 100%. And the bulk of relationships is still within a close range of age. In terms of body shapes - just look AROUND. not on TV, but around. You will see all sorts of couples, and the prevailing majority of them eould not fit the very narrow and thoroughly arbitrary standard that gets pushed on us as the ideal to strive for.