Yes, I agree, age takes its toll, and unless you are blessed with incredible genetics your looks will fade with age. Which was my point, if you are in your 40s thinking you will have the same options you had in your 20s you are only fooling yourself.
However, I don’t think having a sexual past is going to stop you from being able to find a mate, the days of being stigmatized due to you sexual past are long gone in our society today for the most part.
A womans chances of Hypergamy are higher when she is younger. If she still wishes that goal and is older, its a higher mountain to climb.
Btw, I do not want to seem argumentative or cantankerous, but why when a woman is asked/confronted about their "number", do they almost without fail, lie and under count it? ("I can count the number of guys I have been with on one hand") Its because of the perceived devalue in SMV.