> [H]ow many straight men actually feel no attraction to (pubescent) teen girls?
I've long found much younger women to be ever less of a sexual turn-on. When I was fifty, it felt like "anything under thirty-five is pedophilia"; now (at 57) that limit is probably somewhere around forty. Sure, I could still see myself hugging some nubile sixteen-year-old -- just like I could a boy the same age, namely in a comforting "There, there, dear toddler, did you hurt your knee? We'll put a band-aid on it" way. (Though I probably wouldn't actually do that either, knowing how it would likely be construed.)
Dunno if this is simply due to diminishing testosterone, or (feels just as likely to me), if you want to get into evolutionary psychology: parenthood. Maybe we've evolved to be programmed to, after a certain age, not so much constantly strive to procreate, but to take care of the offspring we and others have already set into the world? But maybe if you haven't already done that, the drive to procreate isn't replaced by one to nurture. (Hm, does anybody know if the guy has kids?)
I've long found much younger women to be ever less of a sexual turn-on. When I was fifty, it felt like "anything under thirty-five is pedophilia"; now (at 57) that limit is probably somewhere around forty. Sure, I could still see myself hugging some nubile sixteen-year-old -- just like I could a boy the same age, namely in a comforting "There, there, dear toddler, did you hurt your knee? We'll put a band-aid on it" way. (Though I probably wouldn't actually do that either, knowing how it would likely be construed.)
Dunno if this is simply due to diminishing testosterone, or (feels just as likely to me), if you want to get into evolutionary psychology: parenthood. Maybe we've evolved to be programmed to, after a certain age, not so much constantly strive to procreate, but to take care of the offspring we and others have already set into the world? But maybe if you haven't already done that, the drive to procreate isn't replaced by one to nurture. (Hm, does anybody know if the guy has kids?)