Our center’s pool has high school and college swimmers practicing, but when you’ve taught them Sunday School, they’re always little boys, no matter how fantastic their muscles are. “I told your mom I saw you, hon, and you were looking really healthy.”
I met a nice man of about 70 this spring, when some of my boys had swimming lessons. He’s there every day, swims and uses the gym, and we exchanged history-book suggestions.
In any case, well-built young men are safe from this "old gal," no matter how nice their physiques, and would be even if I wasn't married for more than 25 years to an exceptionally handsome man who is also my best friend! No, I admire well-built younger men and their female counterpoints for that matter, as well as any other human figures of any age, the same way that I admire my cats -- as a piece of lovely moving sculpture wrought by the Almighty Himself, as worthy of appreciation as a rose or a beautiful sunset.
However, in terms of "lust," which being a Christian I consider as something to be avoided and discouraged, I am amused at myself to recognize that down deep in my gut, if I was single in search of romance, HANDS DOWN the fit, handsome gent in his 60s or 70s would appeal to me FAR more than an equally fit/handsome younger man. Older gents are usually wiser, kinder gents!