If you're a woman and you're 42, Tom Junod wants your number

He labeled that age the height of sexiness.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/42-year-old-women

The Internet is not amused.

http://gawker.com/esquire-writers-were-willing-to-fuck-early-middle-aged-1602918511

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-in-praise-of-42-year-old-women-esquire-20140714-story.html#page=1

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118735/problem-esquires-praise-42-year-old-women-amy-poehler


Yada yada yada.

Personally I give Junod, 56, credit for blowing right through the half-your-age-plus-7 rule that has always been the cutoff point for midlife crisis nookie.

 

He was doing OK until he brought up Amy Poehler.

 

YMMV ... tremendously.

There are 60-year-olds who look awesome, and 22-year-olds who look like nine miles of old road.

 

Those 22-year-olds are the sorority girls who tan year-round and look like well-oiled leather walking around campus. No. Thanks.

 

Was he joking when he wrote ...

In our occasional ranking of the ages, we found that this year's most alluring is not what you'd expect. It's not 27 (honored in 1999) or 39 (2008) or 86 (1937 and 1983).

The 1937 thing makes me think it's a joke.

 

In the annals of dumb shit to get worked up about...

 

Frankly, if I was a 42-year-old woman, there's nothing I'd find more sexier than two days worth of stubble and a thousand-yard stare.

 

Reading Junod's article, I kept thinking about what he looks like. I had a vague picture in my mind, and it wasn't good. After reading the article, I Google-Imaged.

Let's put it this way. Most of my friends and I are right at or in the range of 42.

He's pretty much the antithesis of who we'd want to sleep with.

 

I've been outed.

I am Tom Junod.

 

The magazine started in 1932, so I don't think it's a joke. I don't get what all the fuss is about either, especially if they have been doing this sort of thing for 80-plus years.

 

"That's what I love about 42-year olds. I keep getting older. They stay the same age."