Is age merely a number?

[thesummerqueen]

I thought a "cougar" was an older woman and a "cub" was her younger lover. Like there are "bears" and "bear cubs" in the gay community.

There's a certain amount of malicious sneering about it - it usually (as far as I've heard it) implies a rich older woman who keeps a young pretty boy-toy around for fucks.

I was just wondering why there had to be the label. You don't automatically become a cougar after some arbitrary age, and being in that 25-40 area as we are doesn't require a label where some dude can say "awwww yisssss, gonna pick me up some [insert label here] 2nite!"

Though, to tell you the truth, I wasn't half so irritated at the label questions as the "ur".