We're past the point of no return, dating can only end with a thud.

Women, even in their 40s and 50s, unless they completely let themselves go, can still win sex and relationships. Men still habe a lower bar for sex and that is why women have an inflated self perception.

Women can't lose.

BTW I think Howard and Beth are still together. He told a story once about how he used to be able to walk into any club or restaurant and get any woman he wanted , not for his looks, but for his fame and power. At one time he almost had sex with Rebecca Romign while she was married to John Stamos (she was really good looking at that time). So while he was married to Beth she's in her 30s, he's in his 60s, she wants to go out and have fun, and he's just bored with the idea. Low energy, wants to sleep, but she's still young and energetic.

Point being he's a divorced guy that swore off marriage but his addiction to women was still so strong that despite his age, experience, lifestyle preferences, he needs to be married to a model that wants to do things that wear him out.

Erika Eleniak was in a (terrible) film with Casper Van Diem and the two are more comparable. In this case It's a bit like Joker was more selective with his examples and cherry picked Clooney, an exceptionally charismatic and handsome actor. Casper, on the other hand, went from pretty boy chiseled to dad mode, which is fine (and funny because he looks to me like he could be Josh Holloway's father despite being the same age).

A fairer comparison to Clooney would have been Christie Brinkley, who looked fantastic in her 50s.

Men have no biological imperatives and therefore no triggers for the wall. We don't need to strain for pregnancy, we don't have to be fit to breed, so we have no outward visual cue that we're aging. Women have all of those, so of course they age out of turning men on, which used to be where love, submission, or at the very least loyalty and service came in. Men never really needed their women to be beautiful for life, just faithful, pliant, and ours. Feminism made this unnecessary subject a discussion.

men age like wine. females age like milk.