Looking at a picture of an elderly woman staring at a handsome and scantily dressed young man, many would ask: WHAT IS SHE DOING THERE????? Well, that’s a really silly question because to me that's obvious: She is admirering a well-formed male butt, maybe even dreaming of undressing it - and why not? If I was asked that question I would say, because it breaks up the gender-game of "each to his/her role", and she, being an elderly woman, is still not supposed to feel that way. However, surprise, surprise, women have sexual drives too, which also goes for this woman even though she may be too elderly to be considered "beautiful" by men.
In a Patriarchal society something like this will be seen as "natural", and if such a situation raises some eyebrows that will be all. Most will see it as some kind of funny "joke" on the "Men will be men"-theme. Age does slow down certain abilities in the male sex, whereas it often will work the opposite way with women. Being of an age when women were raised to believe that their status was built on male notions of their beauty and biological usefulness, one may argue that this not-so-young woman actually (re-)gains her individual personality through her desire.
One more surprise: Women may use false eyelashes, get surgical alterations of feminine parts of their body, and, to their surprise and disappointment, men don't fall for any of it. But lo and behold, neither do many/most women go for fake muscle-push-up-Tarzans who are so deep into e.g. body building that they in reality are not able to fall in love with anyone but themselves. Who would most often win the seduction-game, Einstein or Tarzan? Well, not so pretty Albert did prove that women fell for him:
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