Half your age + 7 is a reasonable formula for determining creep factor.
Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours agoYeah, I’m in my mid 30’s and my best friend is nearing 50. Believe it or not, people can have common interests that aren’t entirely reliant on their age.
Though I will say that age becomes less relevant as you get older… A 29 year old dating a 19 year old is pretty universally creepy, but few people would say the same about a 49 year old dating a 39 year old. Same age gap, but it’s assumed that the 39 year old has enough life experience to actually make their own decisions. Even in my mid-20’s, I was looking at 19 year olds as if they were literal children. There’s a lot of maturing that happens in the late teens and early 20’s.
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
No, a 19 year old dating a 16 year old is still creepy.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
You mean in the late 20’s and early 30’s. Not a lot of maturing until 25.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 hour ago
That depends on a lot of factors, e.g. whether they go to college or start working or doing trades directly after highschool.