What's Your AROS Score? Don't Know What That Is? Read On ...

[Guest Starbuck]

I don't know why I started thinking about this -- yes I do; I'll tell you later -- but it occurred to me that ...

 

1. Between the majority of monogamous couples, there's probably a pretty tight age range. I'm just guessing, but I'd bet that, on average, it's no more than a few years.

 

2. Then I got to thinking about the people on this site -- people for hire, people who hire -- and it occurred to me that escorts (male and female) probably have more experience than anyone else with partners who are the greatest number of years OLDER than they are ... and, conversely, those of us who hire probably have more experience than anyone else with partners who are the greatest number of years YOUNGER than we are.

 

3. And THEN (because I clearly fell down the rabbit hole and thought about this way too much), I started thinking about the number of years between the oldest and youngest of our sex partners. In my own case, the oldest guy I've been to bed with is now 71; the youngest is 32. But I'm soon going to see the youngest guy I've hired. He's 23 ... and that's what got me thinking about this. My AROS (Age Range of Sexmates) Score is soon to be 48 (for the 48 years between the 23-year-old and the 71-year-old) -- 48!! Jeez! (Before I started hiring, it was about 5.) But am I even close to the highest AROS Score of guys (or gals) on this site? Anyone care to compare?

[TruHart1]

Just curious Starbuck, how can we really know our true AROS score if we realize that not all escorts are truthful about their age? They may say they're 23 but they may actually be 27 or 30 or whatever? Do we make our AROS score in escort years?

 

TruHart1

[Guest Starbuck]

Just curious Starbuck, how can we really know our true AROS score if we realize that not all escorts are truthful about their age? They may say they're 23 but they may actually be 27 or 30 or whatever? Do we make our AROS score in escort years?

 

TruHart1

 

It's a fair question, TruHart. I'm pretty sure about the 23-year-old, but you're absolutely right: it's the age he advertises. On the other hand, if that's what we'll all be comparing (in our little Members of the Forum demographic), the comparison still works.

[+ FreshFluff]

I don't know why I started thinking about this -- yes I do; I'll tell you later -- but it occurred to me that ...

 

1. Between the majority of monogamous couples, there's probably a pretty tight age range. I'm just guessing, but I'd bet that, on average, it's no more than a few years.

 

2. Then I got to thinking about the people on this site -- people for hire, people who hire -- and it occurred to me that escorts (male and female) probably have more experience than anyone else with partners who are the greatest number of years OLDER than they are ... and, conversely, those of us who hire probably have more experience than anyone else with partners who are the greatest number of years YOUNGER than we are.

 

I think this measure should incorporate your own age at the time of the relationship. Otherwise, AROS would be inflated by the person's own age; for example, someone who had sex with a 31-year-old at age 30 and a 52-year-old at age 50 would have an AROS of 21

 

So how about just subtracting the second bolded term from the first. So if you were 50 when you were with the 71 year-old and will be 55 when you meet the new escort, your AROS would be (71-40)-(23-45)=53

[+ Charlie]

Fresh Fluff's formula is too complicated for me. But my AROS using Starbuck's formula would be 52, since the youngest partner was 16 and the oldest 68. Strangely enough, I had sex with both of them in the same year, when I was 18.

[+ FreshFluff]

Fresh Fluff's formula is too complicated for me. But my AROS using Starbuck's formula would be 52, since the youngest partner was 16 and the oldest 68. Strangely enough, I had sex with both of them in the same year, when I was 18.

 

It's just the basic AROS minus the number of years that passed between the youngest and oldest partner. So in your case, your AROS would stay the same.

[+ Charlie]

Aha! Math was never my strongest subject.

[+ Robster]

I'm usually pretty good at math (as an accountant, I need to be, lol) but FreshFluff's formula has me confused too. Since Starbuck's formula is merely the difference between the age of your oldest and youngest partners, why would your own age affect the score?

 

I don't know my exact score, but it's in the 50's range. I've had sex with guys in their early 20's, and at least one guy in his mid 70's.

 

Rob

[+ purplekow]

What you are looking for is divergence from your own age at the time of having sex So I have had sex with someone 23 when i was significantly older than that and I had sex with a 52 year old when I was 30. So the 22 and the other number added together places my divergence score somewhere around 55 but the difference between my eldest partner and my youngest is 54-18 or 36.

[+ FreshFluff]

I'm usually pretty good at math (as an accountant, I need to be, lol) but FreshFluff's formula has me confused too. Since Starbuck's formula is merely the difference between the age of your oldest and youngest partners, why would your own age affect the score?

 

I don't know my exact score, but it's in the 50's range. I've had sex with guys in their early 20's, and at least one guy in his mid 70's.

 

Rob

 

Sorry for the confusion. I was proposing a modified formula that does take into account your own age. The idea behind the AROS, as I understand it, is to measure your tendency to date men who are older (or younger).

 

Here's the current formula,

(age of bedmate the greatest number of years OLDER than you are)-(age of bedmate the greatest number of years YOUNGER than you are)

 

With this formula, someone who dates people around his own age can end up with a huge AROS as he gets older. Let's say Cooper dated an 18-year-old when he was 19 and a 48-year-old when he was 50. So his AROS would be 48-18=30, even though these men were (in my example) right about his age.

 

That's why I proposed subtracting the smallest age difference from the largest one:

 

(age of bedmate the greatest number of years OLDER than you- how old you were when you bedded this silver fox)

-(age of bedmate the greatest number of years YOUNGER than you are - how old you were when you bedded this young hottie)

 

Make more sense, or clear as mud?

[+ FreshFluff]

What you are looking for is divergence from your own age at the time of having sex So I have had sex with someone 23 when i was significantly older than that and I had sex with a 52 year old when I was 30. So the 22 and the other number added together places my divergence score somewhere around 55 but the difference between my eldest partner and my youngest is 54-18 or 36.

 

Yep, well explained.

[+ Robster]

Make more sense, or clear as mud?

Yup, that does make more sense. Thanks!

 

Rob

[+ FreshFluff]

Blech, I hate reading stuff I wrote late at night.

 

So now that I've killed the thread, does anyone else want to talk about experiences with older and younger men?

[+ WmClarke]

Using your formula, I get 45. Using just the age difference, I get .... 45.