Really? As I understand some of these posts, it sounds to me like some of you guys would be OK with a woman who is not interested in having sex with you. Is that true? There have been a couple of comments on here about sex being the icing on the cake. Personally, I disagree. I can eat cake without icing and it still tastes pretty good. Icing just makes it better. To me, that would be something like having plenty of money. Even without it, you still have "cake." To me, sex, just like intimacy, is one of the key ingredients, like flour or eggs or milk or sugar. Take away the basic ingredients and the cake just isn't good or it falls apart. I look at sex, intimacy, respect and communication as key ingredients. They all have to blend together to make it work.

For some of u. I was hopin we we're so shallow at this age to be thinkin about sex first. :(

not so true. I don' see beauty or a "great figure". what catches me is her smile and what keeps me is her character. Over the years, I have found out that Looks can be very deceitful.

Of course men are attracted to women by their looks, as are women attracted to men by their looks. Without that initial physical attraction, you probably wouldn't bother to find out what their personality was like. The question is, how do you define 'pretty enough', or 'handsome enough.' As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Isn't physical attraction the reason women use all the cosmetic products ? I suspect that most men don't go to the gym just for something to do. They're hoping that bigger muscles and a flatter belly will attract the women ! IMO

Beauty is within!

Affection

The problem with dating after fifty is that everyone has history, young people start their adult life with a fresh clean slate, full of hopes and dreams for the future, their attraction and relationship are primarily sex driven, after fifty character and personality have been formed and created by life experiences, not much guess work left to it. After fifty most people have "been there, done that" and have no interest in a replay, they know where they want to live, what they like to eat, what they like to do for entertainment, what movies they enjoy watching, infact, they become "set in their ways” flexiblity and challenges no longer interest them. Topics of conversations is usually about their history, or health problems.

The question to men over fifty is, “now that you have experienced many of life challenges what is your vison of a good relationship?”