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'I was sick of being ghosted so now I follow the six-month rule.'
Even by today's standards, it was a pretty graphic message to receive on a dating app: "I wanna f**k the shit out of you." Some recipients of that message may have thought, "Yes, I want to f**k the shit out of you too," and good on them if that is their choice. However, for Mirabelle*, 29, who works in horticulture from Sydney, it was just another disheartening dating moment that made her implement a strict, no-sex in the first six-months dating rule.
"I was over guys thinking women exist to be vessels for their d*cks. I don't want d*ck, I want a life partner," she said. "The clearer I get on what I want, the more I know I don't want to have sex outside of a relationship. I want to be in a relationship first before I have sex if that makes sense?"
While it should make perfect sense if that is her choice, and probably does if you've chosen to abstain from sex for cultural or religious reasons. However, if you
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AT 70, DURING A LATE-LIFE CRISIS, I decided to try a dating app. I put my age as 69 and carefully selected an age range of 50 to 70 for any dates. Why not? My last lover was in his fifties, and my grandmother’s second husband was 20 years her junior. Not to mention French president Emmanuel Macron, whose wife, Brigitte (née Trogneux), is 25 years his senior; and Madonna, whose current reported boyfriend, Joshua Popper, is 41 years her junior.
I got a meagre two responses. Devastated, my first thought was I had passed my use-by date. My varied and fulfilling love life was over. Then the app bot notified me that, while I’d exhausted all my dating preferences, I should try the general feed where there is no age barrier. So, I did. Suddenly, my phone started bouncing around the table with pings, mostly from twentysomething men — some a little older. “Did you read the fine print?” I asked, referring to the age on my bio. The replies came thick and fast. “Yes, I saw that,” said one.
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