Age is just a number is said so often here.
Personally I feel it's a really naive statement.

Why is it naive?
Are you as 20-30 year old interested in an 70-85 year old who's in a scootmobile, needs a walker, has wrinkles, is incontinent, has loose skin and sagged bodyparts and cannot even bend over to pick something up from the floor when they drop it?
And you're younger than their grandchildren?
Get real!

When is age -maybe- just a number?
According to the Essenes we have bodies that can last at least 900 years (source Gregg Braden, scientist).

In that case age is just a number, although even then there'd be vast differences in life experiences and thus wisdom someone has.

There are currently people on the planet who are potentially around 400 years old.
They live far away from society, certainly Western society, and live in healthy clean environment, no stress and the shizzel that comes with Western lifestyle.

We can live much longer, but then we'd have to abandon our lifestyle and the way our societies are construed.
It'd mean moving away from the whole monetary system & jobs that we don't even like as these only wear us out. They give us so much stress and anxiety that they have a serious impact on the length of our lives.
This is scientific.
Then there's the belief the masses have that we die around 85 and that old age comes with a body that breaks down.

So unless we can live at least 900 years like the Essenes said we could, it's just a really unintelligent thing to say that age is just a number.

(That's me being polite and not saying "it's total b*ll*x)

The claims "400 years" and "900 years" are, at best, questionable. The longest verifiable life span, according to, i.a., Guiness Book of Records, is around 120 years. A possible extreme life span that you may live to see for anybody is 150 to 200 years. Still, that means that "age is just a number" is a foolish statement.



You elided "speculation" at the end of the last sentence.



That belief is supported by life-span statistics.



Regardless of the Essenes, saying that "age is just a number" is, at best, uninformed.



A polite and yet clear way of saying what you were too polite to say is to refer to "male-bovine excrement."

also known as bovril.

The "age is just a number" people who post on here generally fall into two categories;

1. Young men in their twenties who can't hook up with women their own age and believe that older "aunties" are desperate for "company".

2. Scammers pretending to be young beautiful women trying to bilk old men out of their life savings.

That said; there are quite a few relationships between people with quite large age differences that work out very well.

And quite a number of quite old rich men who marry much younger trophy wives, mainly because they are rich and can afford to do so.

And, just for the record, there are no four-hundred year old people living on earth, (except for the well known "lizard aliens" of course).

Case in point.

According to Wikipedia, the etymology of Bovril indicates "great strength obtained from an ox". Thus, not quite the same thing as male-bovine excrement, although male-bovine excrement may have a strong smell.

And as that number climbs be prepared to seem
useless to a large segment of society.

It is going to be 'you' against 'them'.

As you gain in knowledge, they lose their tact.

It seems to me that the vast majority of the likes I get are young enough to be my children or grandchildren. Over the years, I have seen enough to suspect that, to a lot of people on dating apps, old people are useful for one and only one thing: as a source of money.