Cujo'S wrote:
Even though this has come up quite a few times over the years it does get me thinking...
With the woes mongers face falling for chicas and subsequently getting their hearts broken, is that what I have to look forward to going into my 40's 50's & 60's?
Cujo
The topic of what sort of age breakdown there was for mongers HAS come up quite a few times over the years, but this thread raises several new and interesting questions.
1) Has that breakdown changed over time? More specifically, even if the survey indicates that most of those responding still belong to an older age group, has the RELATIVE number of younger mongers increased over time from what it was? In other words, has anyone noticed noticed any trends vis a vis age of mongers?
2) Are there are QUALITATIVE differences between different age groups? Of course, these would just be stereotypes and not all members of each group would necessarily share the qualitative aspects ascribed to their group, but does each group TEND to reflect certain tendencies?
Cujo suggests that it is the OLDER guys ("in their 40's 50's & 60's") who are most apt to fall for the chicas and MAYBE that's true, but I'm NOT so sure.
A) Maybe it happens more to older guys because they don't otherwise get the more usual opportunities for young pu*sy that younger mongers also have available to them and are those more easily pussywhipped, which is what I think Cujo is suggesting.
B) Maybe it just SEEMS that way because, even though youngster mongers may be on the rise, there is still more older mongers in the hobby.
C) Maybe it actually happens more often to older mongers just because its a statistics game and it eventually happens to ALL of us at some point. You just have to be in the hobby for a while before you come across the chica that traps you (ie its a function of how ong you've been in the hobby and not how old you are and older mongers tend to have been in the hobby longer).
D) OTOH, I'd argue that younger mongers may actually be MORE susceptible to making that sort of monger mistake by virtue of their relative lack of experience in the hobby (plus perhaps because of a greater likelihood that younger guys would pursue non-pros or think there was something other than their money attracting chicas to themselves).
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BTW, I was 35 at the time of my first mongering trip (to Thailand) in 1992 and did my first mongering trip to CR about 8 years later (and I've never fallen into the hooker-novia trap).