rpanonmod ([personal profile] rpanonmod) wrote in [community profile] rpanons2015-03-23 02:50 pm

Those suggestions sucked

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Re: YOUR PERSONAL DOUBLE STANDARDS

(Anonymous) 2015-03-27 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It really, really depends on how old you are. A 5 year age difference when one person in their early twenties can be massive. A 5 year difference when one is in their late twenties can be nothing. Being weirded out by A 10 year differences when both parties are in or around their 40's is laughable. And so on.

ayrt

(Anonymous) 2015-03-27 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fair enough. I was assuming most people reading this would be in their 20s or maybe their early 30s so that's kind of who I had in mind when I wrote that. But yeah. That's also why I said a ten year age could be sketchy, depending on the circumstances; a ten year difference between a 45 year old and a 55 year old is totally fine. A ten year difference between an 18 year old and a 28 year old has massive creepiness potential.

I do think it's hard to quantify because some of it does depend on the individuals involved and other circumstances (past relationships, overall sexual experience/relationship experience, if one is the other's teacher or boss, personality types, who has money, etc.). Like I said in another comment, I was involved in a 7-year age difference relationship when I was 19 and that turned out more or less fine. But I can also see a relationship like that going really, really badly with two different people.