Is only “ick” if it was your mother, unless you live in West Virgina.
I can count on one hand how many “older” women I would date, and they’d still only be in their 30s. It’s bad enough I was rejected by a girl a year younger than myself because she thought I looked too young. Fine by me, dating someone my age would be troublesome, because they would want to get married and have children immediately because of the biological clock. I don’t know if I want to (or even should) have children. My older cousin (who turns 38 in December) got married to a younger guy (younger than myself) quite hurriedly and is now pregnant with her first child, all in the past several months.