I’m a long way from 50 myself, and can’t intelligently comment on what I’ll pay attention to come that time. Except to say that it amorous attention is based on sex, which is based on reproduction, and aside from a few outliers 50 year old women just ain’t that fertile. No wonder, whatever their age, men are primarily drawn to women in their prime child-bearing years. Namely, 15-34.
Humans are of course infinitely more complicated than my coarse analysis suggests. But for every “mature” fetishist, there are scores of regular guys.
Well, I’m over 50 (not by much) and I can say categorically that my interest in sex hasn’t diminished by much since I was 30. And, fortunately, my lovely bride is still willing to be the object of my, ahem, “drives.” I’ve always believed that ascribing the human sex drive, especially the male sex drive, to procreation is a bit too animalistic. Sex for humans is far more complicated, for too many reasons to get into here.
Don’t know if you’re male or female, but if you’re the latter you’d better prepare yourself for the fact that your husband, or significant other, still won’t be able to keep his hands off you after you turn 50 — and that if you lose interest wholesale, you will have relationship problems.