They’re emotionally intelligent and more energetic in bed: Why midlife women are dating younger men

Sienna Miller says it’s all about respect while online trends show notable age gaps are on the increase – so what are the pros and cons? Is it really so strange, these days, to see a midlife woman with a good-looking man in his 20s? Women in relationships with men significantly younger than them have long been maligned as “cougars” and “cradle-snatchers”, assumed to be “ sugar mommas ” or on the hunt for a post-divorce toy-boy. But all that seems to be changing, with many well known women now openly dating within this once taboo arrangement. There is more at play than fashion and status.

Many famous women with boyfriends 15 or even 20 years their junior – among them Cher, Heidi Klum and Mariah Carey – say that their younger partners simply have a level of emotional intelligence and maturity not seen in their own generation. So claimed Sienna Miller, 42, last week, when the British-American actress told Harper’s Bazaar that men the age of her boyfriend Oli Green, 27, are attractive partners because they’ve come of age in more modern times. “There is a difference in the way that generation of men respect women,” she told the magazine.



“It’s specific to him, he is very wise and well-adjusted, but I do believe it’s also that generation. They have grown up with a slightly more level playing field.” And it’s not just famous women in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are more interested than ever in dating younger men.

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