Age formula for dating

[ThoughtCriminal]

Really a guideline. I am well aware of some quite normal couples who fell outside this.

If AgeOfYourDate < (YourAge/2)+7 then Date=Creepy

I've also noticed that when people look at this formula, they run the calculation to see the youngest person that they could consider, but not the other direction. So I'm 59 - subtract 7 and multiply by 2... 104. Yeah, not thinking about that.

[wasupaloopa]

1. I was 38 my wife was 21 when we met

We have been together 33 years.

If two people are of legal age it is nobody

else's business

[TlalocW]

2. I have a friend

Who in his mid-20s started dating a high-schooler, but this guy is everything people like Roy Moore claims to be in a religious sense. I disagree with his theology, but he holds himself to a very high standard. No hanky-panky until after they were married. They now have four kids and are very happy. What made their relationship all the more amusing is that he went to his third prom with her when he was 28, and she was 18, and he part of the reason he enjoyed it is just because of how strange it probably looked.

TlalocW

[dweller]

3. when did math formulas change?

/ is a division symbol
* is multiplication
+ addition
- subtraction

or at least last time I looked

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. BASIC coding

Been around for a few decades.

[dweller]

5. you should have said so

or implied it was geek speak... since you you used terms like multiply subtract etc..
/ is division symbol for many more than a few decades
1/2=0.5 etc

[malthaussen]

7. They haven't.

OP was reversing the calculation in his text to find the age of the oldest person he could date and it not be "creepy." Hence multiplication instead of division -- the formula is for finding the youngest person one should date.

Basically, if you're twice as old as the person you're dating, or that person is twice as old as you, it constitutes "creepy" by this formula.

-- Mal

[DFW]

6. Without passing judgment on formulas or any one couple

It's one thing is a couple meets and they click despite a 15, 20, or even 30 year age difference, and both at of legal age.

It is another thing entirely for a man in his thirties to troll the local high schools for underclassmen/women.

[malthaussen]

8. Creepy is in the eye of the beholder.

Positing legal consent, ain't nobody's business what other folks do.

-- Mal

[sl8]

9. Interesting Wikipedia article about this:

From Age disparity in sexual relationships

...

The "half-your-age-plus-seven" rule

The "never date anyone under half your age plus seven" rule is a rule of thumb sometimes used to prejudge whether an age difference is socially acceptable.[62][63][64] Although the origin of the rule is unclear, it is sometimes considered to have French origin.[62]

In earlier sources, the rule had a different interpretation than in contemporary culture, as it was understood as a formula to calculate ideal age for the bride, instead of a lower limit for the suitable age. Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format "A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven."[65] Similar interpretation is also present in the 1951 play The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert.[66]

The half-your-age-plus seven rule also appears in John Fox, Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come in 1903,[67] in American newspapers in 1931, attributed to Maurice Chevalier,[68] and in The Autobiography of Malcolm X.[69]

In modern times, this rule has been criticised as being more accurate for men than women, and for allowing a greater maximum age for a woman's partner later in her life than is actually socially acceptable.[70]

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[Brother Buzz]

11. The Nation of Islam was pushing this shit back in Elijah Muhammad's era

Malcolm X discussed it in his autobiography.

[left-of-center2012]

10. (YourAge/2)+7 ??

I don't understand your formula.

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Example

For a person age 32

(32/2)+7
(16)+7
23