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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2005-08-08 10:46 pm

Ahh, relationships.

[livejournal.com profile] figment0 proposed that since going after significantly younger partners is called "robbing the cradle", the practice of going after significantly older partners should be "graverobbing".

robbing

[identity profile] p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com 2005-08-09 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool. But then the process of preening and posing for partners of INsignificantly different age would be, what?

Mugging?

That said, and in agreement with the humor inherent, there does exist in the concept of "robbing" an element of honest appraisal of the potential for dishonest exploitation of those so young or old -- in either first or second childhood foolishness -- that their partnerships might well be considered unequal and unfair ones.