Too old?

[elizabeth]

How old is too old?

this is a...mature...question, so if you don't feel like thinking about sex, then don't read further.

How old do your favorite rock stars have to be to be old for you to lust after their bodies...or even *gasp* want to "get with them?"

so many of us here feel that the boys have gotten better with age. I, for one, adore the lines around adam's mouth and at the corners of his eyes.

sting is amazing in his 40's.

but how old is too old?

let's say you met up with one of U2 while they were in their 60s...would you still lust after them?

anyone brave enough to be honest?

(and i know, it is not just their physical appearance that makes them sexy, but this is a question that just popped into my head that i thought would make an interesting dicussion.)

 

[mad1]

hmmmmmm dunno................really dunno........poor Adams ting tong would be trailin the ground at that point from losing muscles strangth to keep it in place!!!

 

[OnTheEdge]

Originally posted by elizabeth:

let's say you met up with one of U2 while they were in their 60s...would you still lust after them?

I won't know until they're 60.

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[Starr]

hehehe...I don't have to think about that cause i don't want to have sex with any of them (such a good girl).

But at 60 i think Larry will still look the same....as for everyone else..it frightens me to think about..I think Bono has gotten Sexier with age, as well the Edge & Adam ever since i met him i could just eat him up.....But SEX with any of them not for me.

Starr

 

[Ana]

Originally posted by mad1:
hmmmmmm dunno................really dunno........poor Adams ting tong would be trailin the ground at that point from losing muscles strangth to keep it in place!!!

LMFAO maddie!!!
I feel the same. I really don't know and I'll probably never know. I believe time is the only thing which decides that.

 

[Mullen-Girl]

Originally posted by mad1:
hmmmmmm dunno................really dunno........poor Adams ting tong would be trailin the ground at that point from losing muscles strangth to keep it in place!!!

LMFAO!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! Ewwwwwwwww I don't want to think of that lmao *gag*...I think old is like 60 definitely although I agree Larry won't look a day over 27

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[WildU2Horsesgirl]

On the topic of age: Okay, since I am their age they can NEVER be too old for my sorry old can LOL!

But, IMO Adam has looked rather old since the JT days *ducks, runs*

and IMO Larry looks just as old as Bono and Edge, I don't see him looking 'young' and 'ageless' as some of you say. I think they all look just the age they are, 40-41. Bono and Edge are just as appealing to me as they were in the 80's.

Sting is now out of his 40s and over 50, and IMO he was never a looker at any age, so age has not diminished my opinion of him. Mick Jagger looks very good for his age, almost 59! You have to realize that he had those lips and that face even when he was young and he really isn't bad for his age. Neither is Steven Tyler, age 52, or Joe Perry, age 51, who is perhaps the hottest now I have ever seen him! Paul McCartney has gone downhill recently, old age is setting in as he approaches 60 this summer. Ozzy Osbourne has held up very well for his 50's, especially considering his lifestyle LOL!

Jeff Beck has never changed, and he still looks the same. I think someone who never changes their 'look' holds their youthful appearance longer, because you never really notice them being different as the years go by, but if they keep changing from this look to that, you really notice them. I think people who look hot should just stick with what looks good! Maybe that's what it is with Larry, he never changes his look so he always looks the same to you.

Speaking of changing, Michael Jackson! How many face surgeries has he had? Maybe the first nose job was okay, but after that he was just messing himself up, and the older he gets, the more it shows. When he's really old his face will probably fall apart. Remember, he's sleeping in that tank so he'll live to be 150, so it should get interesting for those of you who are around!

Bottom line: does it really matter, as long as YOU like them? For example, Adam already would be in my 'too old' category but many of you girls much younger than me are hot for him! Age is only a number, if it turns you on, if you like it, it's okay. Don't let the years people were born get in the way. If your guy still does it for you, he's not too old for you, who cares?!

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[sulawesigirl4]

Edge will be like Sean Connery. Sexier every year!

 

[spinninghead77]

Hhhmmmm. Interesting question Elizabeth. I think that it is all relative. Bono is 17 years older then me. When I first noticed his sexiness I was 14, and he was 31. At that point I thought that he was too old. Of course he stirred things in me that I didn't know I had, but he was too old for me. All that I would have wanted from him was a hug, perhaps a dance, and to have him sing to me. A few years later, when I was 18/19, and Bono was 35/36 it started to seem less taboo. That was when I first thought that I would like to sleep with him. I still feel like that, and he is older. But so am I. Being 24, a 41 year old man doesn't seem like that big of a deal now, and as we both get older it will seem like even less.

I guess though, eventually he will start to lose his sex appeal. Perhaps when I am in my 40's, and he is in his 60's I will start to think of him in a different light!!!

 

[JessicaAnn]

Tom Jones is in his 60s and women are stil throwing their panties at him ... not that I personally find him appealing, but if he does it for you ... happy panty throwing.

I think the guys will still be sexy when they're in their 60s. For me, sexy involves more than looks.

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"I turn slightly and catch Bono with half a Perrier bottle in his mouth. He's sucking the thing in such a manner it would put Madonna to shame!"

"I'm very secure with the fact that I'm not black. I'm white, pink and rosy. But I've got soul."
--Bono

?We make music you can have sex to.?
--Bono

"Girls boys listen me kiss love fun drink sick kiss cuddle sex swim sea rock and rub." (from the gates of Bono's house)

 

[Ana]

Originally posted by JessicaAnn:
For me, sexy involves more than looks.

Exactly.

 

[Bonochick]

Age ain't nothin' but a number.

Except for when legal issues are involved.

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[madonna's child]

<------is 17 (and 3/4... 18 in may!)

U2's too old for me, but i don't care!!!!!!!

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[Ana]

Here I am: a 19 year old girl in love with a man of 41 who is just sexy and intelligent.
Who could resist that?

 

[hippy]

Originally posted by WildU2Horsesgirl:
Age is only a number, if it turns you on, if you like it, it's okay. Don't let the years people were born get in the way. If your guy still does it for you, he's not too old for you, who cares?!

Right on! That's my philosophy!

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[Julyfly]

Well, I have a perfect example for y'all:
My parents. My Mom is 49 ( 50 in April & everyone thinks she's such a hottie... she looks like Princess Diana- REALLY) and my Dad is 69- granted he's a very young-acting 69 and still looks like he's in his mid 50's. That's a 20 year difference and they'll celebrate their 22nd Anniversary in August ( actually, it's OUR anniversary as a family; he's my stepdad, but he has raised me). They met when she was 24 & he was 44. When my mom was born, he had been in the Navy 3 years already! My grandmother kept trying to get him interested in my mom's older sister ( 12 yrs older), but he was inlove with my mom... and they're STILL crazy about each other! So, sometimes age
is not so relevant- as long as you're both consenting adults.

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[Lilly]

Elizabeth! I haven't seen you in so long here. Yea, that's all. I don't wanna talk about sex.

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[martha]

I've noticed that as I grow older the age range of the men I find to be hot and sexy grows too. Now that I'm 40, men anywhere from about 19 (bad girl!) to about 60 look really good. I imagine that as I age, this range will expand even more. Of course, our guys will look good to me because they're close to my own age.

 

[Salome]

when they are 80 they might not be able to run away from you anymore

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[Veranda]

Well I'm glad Julyfly's parents have done so well, and I'm happy for you. But not everyone is so lucky. My grandparents were 18 years apart. It was fine in their earlier years, but when my grandad was a sickly 84 and my grandma was a lively, youthful 66 he resented her, and she felt kind of held back, though they did love each other.

My car may be a good example. The top cylinders blew, and the mechanic told me I should have the entire engine rebuilt. I said why, if the top is broken and not the bottom? He said if the two halves of the engine are the same age, it's like a man with his wife his same age, they gradually grow old together and wear down together. If the top of the engine is like brand new and the bottom is old, it's like, as he put it, an old man with a young wife, she wears him out! To save money, I got only the top rebuilt, and within 6 months it had blown out the bottom of the engine too!

I would personally rather have a guy my own age. It would be weird to have someone way older or younger, who had grown up in a different time and was different in lots of ways. I could not deal with that, no matter how old I was. BUT that doesn't stop us from looking and drooling, which is as far as it's ever gonna get with us and U2 anyway LMAO!

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[WildHonee]

Originally posted by madonna's child:
<------is 17 (and 3/4... 18 in may!)

U2's too old for me, but i don't care!!!!!!!

O YEAH YEAH YEAH

<--- 17 and almost 5/12 and I loveth them all. Heck, my mom still thinks Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are hot (Ah, Harrison

). Em...boys my age are scared of me. But it's a legal problem otherwise. FECK!!!

LMAO Salome's post made me remember the play Echo and I wrote about U2 in the Nursing Home!!!!!!! LMAO

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"I think I just said I was smart there - I'm sorry about that." ~BONO~

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[WildHonee]

Ah, I doog it oop

Behold, the latest collaboration from Mona and Echo!
The year 2041, A.D.: U2 have been relegated to the Shadows and Tall Shady Pines Nursing Home, formerly the PLEBA Mansion.

MULLENGIRL: *sniff* Look what's become of him...

GINA: Now, you knew that Larry couldn't stay a smooth criminal forever.

MULLENGIRL: Yeah, but did the hair have to start growing our of his EARS?

JULIE: I don't get it...we're working so hard for the guys...and we dont even get any elevation in return...Why is Echo always walking around with a big smile on her face?

MONA: *fume* Wish I'd had the foresight to build an animatron that was ageless.

ECHO: *breezes by* Don't forget anatomically correct.

MONA: *fume*

MULLEN GIRL: I don't understand...why did Larry have to start aging?

GINA: No one know...it happened about ten years ago...after he lost that weird crystal ball that he always used to carry around with him...

ECHO: He's got a lot of interesting stories to tell about his youth, though...playing the band...fighting in the civil war....defeating the Saxons...seducing Cleopatra...inventing fire...

CATDUBH: Adam you know I love you but arent you a little old to be wearing a sarong?

ADAM: But it brings out the color in my eyes!

CATDUBH: It brings out the color in your varicose veins is what it does.

*CRASH!*

ANA: WHat was that?

MONA: Bono's still getting the hang of his motorized wheelchair.

BONO: Can someone please come and put the television back upright? The Spice Girls movie is gonna be on soon!

*Mona puts the TV back on the table. Bono backs up his wheelchair and crashes into the couch.*

BONO: Oh, whoops. *rolls forward and runs over Animatronic Edge's kitten.*

KITTEN: ROWR!!

MULLENGIRL: Wait a minute...its 40 years in the future and Animatronic Edge still has a kitten?

ECHO: He's been cloning them for decades.

MONA: What happens to a kitten when it grows up?

ECHO: Well, the cloning has a nasty side effect...

MONA: Wait a minute...does this have anything to do with that room on the third floor that no one's allowed to go into?

ECHO: No, that's just where I keep all my porn.

LARRY: *cries* My ball...my ball....

MULLENGIRL: *trips* What?

LARRY: Ever since I lost my ball, I haven?t been the same.

GINA: Oh....em....

LARRY: What will I do without my crystal ball....

MULLENGIRL: Crystal?

DISCOTEQUE: I'll tell you one thing...I'm just glad they finally ceased publication of TAMALE Magazine.

ECHO: Still, it was long overdue...the last feature was Larry in a tear-away adult diaper.

MEANWHILE

BONO: Feck! I hate TV....Let?s watch some more. Gimmee more!

HIPPYACTRESS: *wanders in* What?

BONO: I WANT MORE.

HIPPYACTRESS: O...well...I?ve never really been a BonoFan, but, em....It--it?s great to hear you?re doing well with your Viagra and...um....

BONO: Turn it on, young lady!

HIPPYACTRESS: *stares* Um...

BONO: Come on, please? I don?t know how.

HIPPYACTRESS:.....are you sure?

BONO: Yes. The nurse once taught me how.

HIPPYACTRESS:....really? They do that kind of thing here? O man. That?s like what I saw on 60 Minutes that one time, and--

BONO: I think you pull it.

HIPPYACTRESS: !!

BONO: Or push it.

HIPPYACTRESS: ...do you want me to get Mona or something? Because, um....

BONO: Just....feckin? twist it, I guess. I don't know. I WANT MORE!!

HIPPYACTRESS: *passes out*

BONO: NURSE!!! *rings bell* I did it again!

MONA: *appears* What, without me?

BONO: I just wanna... *drives wheelchair towards television...crashes into coffe table.* OOF! *Falls out of wheelchair* Oh, I landed on my--

MEANWHILE

ELDERLY WOMEN: *Herd*

SCOTTPHISTO: ...do you feel the ground moving?

ELDERLY WOMEN: *stampede*

SCOTTPHISTO: Holy goya beans!!! They?re after me!...well....they?re...gradually....pursuing me....

ELDERLY WOMEN: *tossing pudding cups at ScottPhisto* Get back here, you young whippersnapper! We wanna gum ya!! YUMMY!!! *in hot pursuit in walkers and wheelchairs and on canes*

*DING A LING A LING*

GINA: WTF?

ECHO: The bell means it?s time to let the free range elderly get their exercise. They just release Larry--

MULLENGIRL: *giggles*

ECHO: -- and they follow him around. It?s GREAT. Now they want ScottPhisto to help Larry.

GINA:....to help release Larry? Geez, you?d think that--

BONO: I WANT MORE!!!!! GIMMEE!!!!!!

MONA: *runs* But didn?t you just fall on your--

DING A LING A LING A LING!!!!!

ECHO: Better get out there, ScottPhisto.

SCOTTPHISTO: *sigh* It?s hard being a man slut. Heheh I said hard and--

BONO: GIMMEE MORE!!!!

LATER

ECHO: Alright girls, it's sponge bath time. Grab a sponge and line up behind your man.

*Mona is chained to a wall so she will not do anything inappropriate to Bono.*

BLUEY: *grabbing sponge* This gets less and less fun every time. Bono hasnt even been elevated since 2032!

BONO: Why, when I was yer age and fighting the plague of Third World Debt like it was a dust bunny on my little cotton socks in the very thickness of the winter nights that always chilled us right to the bone except on alternate Tuesdays--

MONA: Stop staring at that nurse! It?s not polite.

ECHO: *realizes* Bono, that wasn?t even a full sentence.

BONO: I know, I know. I had to take a breather.

MULLENGIRL: *whispers* Poor Bono. Can?t even talk as much as he used to.

BONO: Hey! I can talk the ear off a stalk of corn that?s golden like the hair of a--

PEASANTS: GET ON WITH IT!!!!

BONO: I just remembered I have to go take my Viagra. I?m still ALIVE, you know.

MONA: Score!!

LARRY: Hey, look! I FOUND MY BALL!!! It was here under the couch the whole time. All I have to do is rub it!

MULLENGIRL and GINA: *faint*

LARRY: *magic* I?M YOUNG AGAIN!!!! EVERYONE!!!!!! BEHOLD MY BALL!!!!!!!

ELDERLY WOMEN: FRESH MEAT. *pass out*

LARRY: *strut* I feel pretty...

SCOTTPHISTO: Uh, oh. Where are you goin?, Lawrence?

LARRY: Now that I?m young again, I--

SCOTTPHISTO: I wouldn?t go back out there if I were you.....

LARRY: Why not?

SCOTTPHISTO: Well, Bono and the rest of them don?t...eh....operate as well as they used to, and the girls are gettin a little frustrated....watch yer waffle, is all I?m saying.

LARRY: Recockulous. *steps inside*

SCOTTPHISTO: Exactly.

LARRY: Oh. *is the victim of mass defilement*

BONO: I WANT MORE.

Ah, the good ol' days

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~*Mona*~
"I think I just said I was smart there - I'm sorry about that." ~BONO~

LOVE me, give me SOUL

O YEAH YEAH YEAH...

 

[elizabeth]

Originally posted by Lilly:
Elizabeth! I haven't seen you in so long here. Yea, that's all. I don't wanna talk about sex.

LOL- you must not be reading the adam posts...I'm here!

but i'm glad to see you, too!

 

[WildHonee]

O....*nostalgia* That was written back when Hippy was a newbie!!! OMD!!

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"I think I just said I was smart there - I'm sorry about that." ~BONO~

LOVE me, give me SOUL

O YEAH YEAH YEAH...

 

[JennyBean]

LOL at your story Mona! That was before I started coming here all the time.
To answer the question I think I will probably still find them attractive when they are 60. I've never wanted to have sex with them though. I just think all of them are good looking, and I probably always will find something about them that is appealing to me. ~Jen

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[Crzy4Bono]

Depends on how old I am.

If they're 60 and I'm 60... well...

(as an aside, I think Sean Connery is awefully sexy and he's way older than me)

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[mbi16]

Originally posted by Ana:

Exactly.

First of all like Starr said, I can see them as sexy but definitely the thought of sleeping with any of them just won't come to me. But I'll try to answer the question regardless.

Jessica said the biggest truth in all our obssessions, sexy is more than just looking good, it's an atitude, a charm, a charisma, and ultimately a personality. None of the members, or any rock and rollers, are sexy just because they look good, unlike a model whom we consider sexy simply because.

Really I think if Mick Jagger were taken outta of the band and was just a model, well he wouldn't make it. A lot of the sexiness comes from the music they control and personality they have off the stage. The same is true with just regular guys, one might find themselves in love with somebody whose body type is the complete opposite of their ideal and yet find that person sexy, and lust.

So, I think that unless the guys become their polar opposites (i.e. complete assholes) the lust will continue no matter how old. I'm sure Frank Sinatra still had ladies (young ones alike) lusting after him till the day of his death. So no, once the chain starts, it's not easily broken.

So no I don't the lusters gained throughout the years will be deterred by age alone. Will Bono gain 14 year old fans when he's 60? That would be a better question. It's possible, but higly unlikely and definately not at the same. There's just a line at one point that won't be crossed by females under 18.

This all opinion from a non-luster, so I could be completely wrong. If you started the thread hoping that one day you would grow outta of this, I'm sorry I've given you no hope.

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[truecoloursfly]

elizabeth,
I really appreciate this question. I think it's been floating around in my head, without quite taking shape 'til you said it... Sex appeal and age or appearance have never really been linked in my mind. (Anybody ever heard the song,She Ain't Pretty, She Just Looks That Way? Most supermodels strike me that way.) Pretty people aren't always sexy, and sexy people aren't always pretty, either! Depth in the eyes and an animal energy in how they move, THAT'S sexy. Some people lose that animality at 14, some at 30, some just don't (see Connery above

)
See also: Larry. Edge. Adam. And Bono, for me (it's the writer-thing), flies right off the flippin' scale. Another way I like to look at it *warming to her subject *ahem** is as a rare balance of feminine (in the eyes or the sensuality)) and masculine -- I could about eat POP-Bono for breakfast!

So having said all that, I have in fact wondered about rock'n'roll singers in particular, which is on the surface a young man's dance. How will rock'n'roll age? Sorry, I don't see Mick as a good example; I think he's fighting his age. Bruce at 51 looks delicious, as does Sting. I think the point when a man stops "moving in" his body is when the sex appeal stops. (Gregory Peck kept it for a long time.)
I think Bono will keep it for a long time. I saw him pacing himself on Elevation -- but still using his body well. (and then some!) Edge is gonna be like Connery, yeah, or Paul Newman -- those eyes! They're about my age, and I've always found 40-ish sexy anyway (I know what you mean about the lines on their faces, elizabeth), so "too old" doesn't yet pertain to them. But I do wonder what it might feel like when and if...

I think often of growing old with my "celebrity" contemporaries, as I watch my parents relate to Sinatra, or Peggy Lee. They were all young and fiery together. They all owned the world together. We see them as "elderly." But in each other's eyes, they see youth and fire...and maybe sex appeal.

An aside: one of my best friends is 64, and she reports enthusiastically that, "Boy, it only gets better, Deb!"

peace,
Deb D

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[martha]

Well said, truecolorsfly; especially the part about Gregory Peck. He was fine his whole life, wasn't he?

 

[hippy]

Originally posted by WildHonee:
O....*nostalgia* That was written back when Hippy was a newbie!!! OMD!!

Hehe...I was gonna say that!

The first play I ever appeared in...awwww...I'm not such a newbie anymore

And right on Deb! I like thy thinking!

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