Nowadays younger men will flirt with an older woman, and the first couple of times it happened to me I treated it as a joke! I then kind of decided I enjoyed the "role reversal" of younger man/older woman and enjoyed being treated really well, taken out for coffee, drinks, meals, going for hikes, to the movies etc. I refused a back rub. But the stares in public were fun. I still don't know what it was all about. I think I just had a sexy cougar streak for a couple of years but it has since faded. The truth is that in this society now there aren't really any rules, and for this reason personal boundaries are much more important. I would date a younger man if we were mutually attracted. However, recently I wasn't too happy when a 30-something relative started dating a woman ten years younger than he was. We were all relieved when they broke it off on friendly terms. It just seemed creepy. She was still living with her parents. They never got a chance to meet her older man, thank goodness.