Is it okay to sleep with a 26-year-old if you're 50?

A couple in bed.
04/07/2025
2 min

We read in the ARA that actress Charlize Theron, born in the wine-producing land of South Africa, "boasts about a night of sex with a 26-year-old young man." She said this in a podcast calledCall her daddy: "Not long ago I had sex with a 26-year-old guy and it was incredible. I'd never done that before and I thought, 'Oh! This is wonderful.'"

I understand that this "never had sex" refers to now, when he is 49, and not when he was 26, although, of course, it could be that he has had sex with many guys of 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 years old, but that is lacking in the lack.

A 26-year-old guy is a gentleman. My father, at that age, already had three children. Therefore, I don't see any reason for scandal, on the contrary, in this amorous execution. But we put the same sentence in the mouth of Brad Pitt: "Not long ago I had sex with a 26-year-old girl and it was incredible. I'd never done that before and I thought, 'Oh! This is wonderful.'" That would be another thing that would set off our alarm bells about sexism and abuse. We would say, of course, that there is a superiority on Brad's part towards the victim, because he is famous and has power, as we say about this girl who accuses Alejandro Sanz. But there is also a superiority on Charlize's part, since she is older and has more power.

I know all kinds of couples who are years apart in age. That's why, when in a podcast or X-rated thread an intelligent, capable, professional woman reports that ten years ago, when she was 21, let's say, "being" that she was "manipulated" by a man, who "made her believe" that he loved her, but that it was abuse and that now, thanks to therapy, she understands it... Until what age can a woman not be the master of her actions? Until what age will our actions make us do more actions that we regret? Why have we agreed that it's okay, then, that in most heterosexual couples it takes her two or three years?

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