The "cougars", women said to be predatory

Popularized by American fiction, women called 'cougars' are not afraid to appear on the arm of conquest younger than themselves. They represent a real phenomenon and invade the tabloids. But is it a new stage in women's liberation or simply a new male sexual fantasy?

The term "cougar women" appeared in 2008, from the pen of a journalist from the New York Times. He had used the name of this wild cat seductive to describe a certain age, popularized by American fiction.
When women start to attack the young men ...

The phenomenon of women called "cougars" refers to older women (beyond quarantine) looking to meet younger men. It can be anything from a search of love than a real fighter or just a sexual game of seduction. In fact, appear with a younger partner became acceptable for women.

It may be that we finally accept the idea that women can also go through a sort of "midlife crisis". In a society that glorifies youth and beauty, it can be tempting to reassure her power of seduction when age begins to mark the body. The fear of death is not far, and it is often the time for a little mid-term review. We can then depress or otherwise increase its energy to enjoy more of what life has to offer. And it often feels better in your body from quarantine: uninhibited, more secure of his desires, more experienced ...

Primarily a media phenomenon?

If we speak of a phenomenon "cougar" is mostly because this type of woman has been highly publicized in recent times, including the United States. Indeed, two stories have marked the spirits: the wedding of Demi Moore with Ashton Kutcher, sixteen years his junior, and the adulterous affair of the character Gabrielle Solis with her ​​gardener in the series " Desperate Housewives ". Since then, American productions have been invaded by the characters of women "cougars" like in the movie "Pumas" with Jennifer Aniston or the series "Cougar Town" with Courtney Cox. And there are countless people who show no complex linkages with young men: Madonna, Sharon Stone, Claire Chazal, Laurence Ferrari ...

So the phenomenon of "cougar" would it a new gadget for women's magazine? Absolutely not, because there is a social reality behind this media phenomenon. According to INSEE, 20% of French couples uniting today a woman to a younger man. In blended families , the woman is older than his companion in three cases. And the United States, one third of women aged 40 to 70 years living with a man at least ten years their junior.

A profound change in society?

The real problem, in fact, it's the end of the taboo. The omnipresence in the media of these women may be indicative of a new stage in the liberation of women. They could finally fulfill their desires without blushing. They could consider the couple and sex as more than "potential mothers". Clearly, they could "exist" amorously without any question of reproduction, so even after menopause .

So this display media reveal a profound change in our society. For in fact, women amateur young men have always existed. And yet not long ago, they were very severely criticized. For example, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Marguerite Duras or Edith Piaf have all shown with small victories. The phenomenon is clearly not new ...

But the fantasy is never far away ...

However, we can not say that the image of women "cougar" is free of machismo. Rather, it is also a male sexual fantasy. Just check the countless dating sites specialized for realizing it. The older woman is erotic for some young men. I must say it represents the perfect image of the initiator. Not only she is sexually experienced, but it is more liberated and dare all. It embodies the fantasy of a woman and offered expert, shamelessly. The pornography industry has also developed an entire industry "mature women" ... So the image conveyed by the term "cougar women" is not very clear. It represents the liberated woman, uninhibited, who lives his desires and feelings without worry about what people will say it. But it can also get closer to women as objects when she plays a porn archetype. No doubt he would stop talking about the phenomenon "cougar" as the term includes anything and everything. So, let us remember that behind this expression there are mostly men and women who meet, which are love, and sometimes that love each other ...

Did you know?

Another name that expresses the erotic fascination can have some older women. This is very tricky term "MILF", for "Mother I'd Like to Fuck" (literally, "mother I'd like to fuck"). This is the film American Pie who popularized the term in 1999, the character of Stifler's mother was the fantasy of every boy in the school.