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Are people aged 19-28 the least attractive?

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  • 24-02-2016 5:17pm
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    DareGod
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    Are we all (generally speaking) at our least attractive when we are between the ages of 19-28?

    There's gotta be some age when we're (generally speaking) the furthest down the scale of attractiveness.

    There are obviously exceptions that prove every rule, of course.

    But in my opinion, this seems to be the age that's lowest down the scale of attractiveness.

    I have a number of theories as to why I may feel like this:
    • Our 20s are probably the most confusing time in our lives (generally speaking) and it really shows on our faces and how we carry ourselves.
    • Our egos are all over the place and it's off-putting to others.
    • Our faces and our heads are beginning to reach their end-point, size-wise and formation-wise, and there's a lot of s**t going on aesthetically. S**t's moving around and trying to settle down.
    • We think we know everything at this age when the opposite is true, and it can be kind of off-putting to others.
    • As you come ever closer to turning 30, you start to stop giving a f**k about what anyone thinks. Not in the cocky, arrogant, ignorant way you see so much in the younger crowd, but in a genuine, "finally being at peace with yourself" way, and it really starts showing on your face and how you carry yourself.

    Thoughts?


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    CageWager
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    Those 18 year olds though..


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    Sam Kade
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    Yeah right, we get better looking when we get old and wrinkly.


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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Not if you're 19 - 28

    21/25



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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Would these not be considered the peak years when it comes to looks?


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    JustShon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭JustShon


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Would these not be considered the peak years when it comes to looks?

    I think OP is talking about overall attractiveness, not necessarily just looks. At least that's how I took it up anyway, can't speak for OP obviously.


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    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Would these not be considered the peak years when it comes to looks?

    The thread isn't about just "looks," which are only part of the equation.


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    LeeLooLee
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    I get way, way, way more positive attention at 30 than I ever did at 25. I suspect it has to do with the way I carry myself and my confidence. I don't care what other people think of me now, as you said, not in an arrogant way, but I'm finally at peace with myself. I know who I am. I'm not desperate to be liked, I don't really take other people's ideas about me to heart.


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    I felt pretty at 20 and I fell confident and secure as well as pretty now at 29. I think there's much more to me now in depth and character and that I'm a better and more interesting person to know and spend time with, having lived a little.

    I think it's true of almost everyone as they get older, unless they're one of the occasional stagnant types you meet, who seem unchanged since 18. When their looks go, they haven't as much to offer if they haven't developed as people.


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    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    See the OP's point for guys, but realistically somebody that's older that wants to pursue a serious relationship with an 18-22 year old IMO isn't going to be the most logical person/emotionally grown up person themselves.


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    stillalive88
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    I'd say more something like 14-21 as those are usually the dorkiest of times for a lot of people...
    But it can often be said the same for others that start working on 21 and begin a sedentary life of sadness becoming old prunes at around 30... and they already look 50 by then.


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    JackieBauer
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    Your only as sexy as the escort your feeling


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    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    It depends- I know plenty of women in their thirties as vacous as teenagers and twice as thick

    I know plenty of teens who are sensible and attractive as hell.

    There's no generalisation only that youth is more attractive


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    JustShon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭JustShon


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    It depends- I know plenty of women in their thirties as vacous as teenagers and twice as thick

    You're lucky they're only in their 30s. I've met people in their 40s and 50s who are as vacuous as teenagers and twice as thick.


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