the real answer wrote:
While I disagree with your premise you are on to something. Age 24 is often the turning point for girls to ditch their teenage/ college senselessness and grow up a little. It is in fact my dating cut-off age.
This is the truth! After college, I went straight to grad school and studied with people who were mostly older than me. Then I went straight to work and I now socialize with people mostly in their 30s. I've dated older women because they're the only ones I know, and it's been great. After dating women, I never want to go back to dating girls.
Disclaimer: age is just a number (that correlates highly with maturity), but I don't have iron-clad rules about age. I figure that it's only fair that I keep an open mind, since many women I've dated have had trepidations about dating a guy in his early 20s. If I expect others to be open-minded, I should act that way as well.