Much Ado About Dating

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So I’ve been hinting things are a little complicated recently. Well here’s why… You might be surprised to learn I haven’t actually been on what I’d call a proper “date” since I first had dinner with Jane. True we unexpectedly ended up in bed that first night, but at the outset it was still just […]
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It’s the time of year when we look back on things past, and forward to new horizons. In so doing I’ve been thinking of some of the dates that I’ve had this year and some things definitely stand out and need to be discussed. Perhaps you toyboys are fed up of being told the do’s […]
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Word on the street has it that 63 year old Susan Sarandon has split with her hubby (12 years her junior) Tim Robbins and is dating 31 year old Jonathon Bricklin, according to celebritorium.com the online celebrity watch site. Apparently she met Bricklin at a naked ping pong party – the mind does boggle, although […]
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I’ve always been very careful in choosing my arguments and you may think I’ve made a mistake here but no Aristotle, no!! “Love”, he says, “is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Romanticised nonsense!  My soul is mine. I wouldn’t want it diluted by merging it into someone else’s body thank you and […]
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We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and thank you for making this site the top UK site for women and younger men. We have had competition during the year and other sites copying us but what we promise for January when we launch TBW mark II will really put the competitors in the […]
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“Men comprise the majority of the creative community,” said Martha M. Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, and one result is “male fantasies of women’s sexuality” according to an article in Friday’s New York Times. Dr. Lauzen studied the 2008-9 television […]
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Question: when is a toyboy not a toyboy? Why when he’s a toyman of course. But we’ve done all that before haven’t we. And for those who’ve never heard this admittedly dubious expression, it refers to the guy still into older women who’s a little more established in life yada yada yada. So nuff(ish) said […]
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After  recent experiences both on TBW and life in general I thought I’d share one of my favourite poems with you by Wendy Cope , and as far as I can see it couldn’t be more true. Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your […]
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The occasional bout of flu is good for you. There are people who’d pay good money to spend two days in bed getting sweaty and delirious. I’ll wager that there are Tibetan monks who strip and run naked in the snow, hoping to bring on an extended bout of groggy self examination. Anyway, I’ve been […]
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An old – and I mean positively ancient – friend of mine just lost his wife after 45 years.  They’d worked and lived together 24/7 and her sudden death came as an agonizing blow. When I spoke to him immediately after it happened, the first thing he did was to come on to me.  We’d […]
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