I’m happy for the gentleman, if he has the life he wants, but it doesn’t sound at all appealing to me. For one thing, there’s something deeply pathetic about a man of nearly 70’s rhapsodizing over the low cost and easy availability of young Asian women.
Yeah. For my $$, he went on too long about the cheap booze and young women. Every now and then I read Expat profiles on various “retirement heavens”. The Phillipines is one. Some of the profiles echo what he says. But others talk about the fact that many Fillipinos hate Americans, the women are great—until you marry them, the healthcare is substandard, the streets are dirty and people think nothing of pissing in public. And lots of crime. Not too appealing.
If you wish to conclude that the only reason this guy is living in the Phillipines is due to the availability of sex with younger women, then the only difference between him and the widows living in the retirement communities such as The Villages is the epidemic of STD's and the age of the sexual partners..........
I didn't read the entire article, just skimmed it, but I take your word for it that such a statement is in there.
I, too, am elderly and am proud to say that I never was nor do I wish to be a "dirty old man." In fact, I wonder why there are such animals. One should be losing libido in one's old age, not increasing it.
P.S. I don't wish to highjack this thread with that subject, so please, leave it at that.
It's even more pathetic to watch. Actually, there is a certain kind of ironic pleasure to watch them with their eyes glazed over in the Tesco Lotus picking out some benign purchase such as a TV stand with their "new family". She -- filled with excitement for it's all new to her. Full of middle class exuberance brought to her by this decrepit POS 50 years her senior but she figures it's easy work and beats the alternative.
Him -- eyes glazed over, like I said. He's done this all all before with family number one.
Unfortunately, for her, there's Viagra.