I highly suspect that Grindr users like ReallyGheyLuxray would care less about age if American men weren't so lazy that middle age practically guarantees you'll get an ugly fat guy.   The twink OP of this thread even said so--silver foxes are attractive, sickly bloated balding fatasses aren't. You can tell this by contrasting with earlier time periods: just ask /u/RawScent what bear bars were like in the 1970s.   For that matter, take this comment:  At 60 I'm considered hot and sexy by a lot of 20-somethings which would be awesome if most of the 20-somethings these days were fuckable.  And:  I'm a gay man and almost 60. The twenty-somethings are so desperate for a healthy male body, they hit on me constantly. But they're so fucking fat that I have no interest. Thank god I'm happily married otherwise I'd be stuck jerking off to 70s porn. We stopped going out to gay clubs because so many kids are fat or at best, skinny fat. They don't even know how fat they are! It's all disgusting.  So much for "twinks are ageist and shallow and never are attracted to old men with beards." In Polari, the cant of the British underworld that gave us terms like "campy," "tearoom" was code for a bathroom gay men would surreptitiously cruise and fuck in.    The whole premise of a tearoom would have failed if it weren't for the fact that everyone was thin and gay men were almost guaranteed to be somewhat decent-looking.