Cougars, MILFs, And Intergenerational Yeast Infections
LatestA year or two ago, the whole cougar thing reached its tipping point. You might recall that time when ravenous MILFS began busting out all over. They were everywhere; from the web to the warm waters of the Caribbean. Yes, it’s true. They took their “cubs” and went to sea. In 2009, a senior navy of Girls Gone Wild sailed the very first Cougar Cruise. Spawning, perhaps, the very first strain of an inter-generational yeast infection.
At around the same time, Cameron, Jennifer and other notable old blondes began to amass a cargo of fresh meat. Madonna, Reese Witherspooon et al visited the great cub crèche. But undisputed Queen of the Cougars was to be smoky eighties film star, Demi Moore.
Despite her decades-long failure to make a movie that did not smell entirely of arse, Demi was lauded for the feat of moving in with a bloke still too young for Botox. Press banged on about Ashton Kutcher, 20 years Moore’s junior, and the relic he had married. This, media told us, was proof of an Important New Trend.
Was it, though? We couldn’t be certain. But, we did know that if a lady had a dollar for every idiotic headline, a la “40 is the new 20” or “Cougars on the Prowl”, she could afford to buy her very own Ashton Kutcher. Or, at least, drugs sufficient to convince her and a den of cubs that she still had 20-year-old tits.
Of course, Demi, a well-maintained museum piece, probably does have 20-year-old tits. She is gifted of impossibly good bone structure and the very best lubricant gynaecology can buy. Moore, still stunning, is super-human; not at all like most women of the cougar age-range. But, this didn’t stop a hundred awful chicks’ magazines from publishing all this celebrity-led cougar romance crap.
Oddly, it just didn’t stop at all. After reaching their public peak, cougars did not fall backwards off their heels and into sensible shoes. You’d think after such a debut, the cougar would be wiped from the pop culture. But, she’s not even on the endangered list.
In fact, she’s doing respectable box office.
This year sawthe release of Cougars Inc. It starred Charlie Sheen’s ex Denise Richards. In other words, it was made for ten dollars and did not set the Hollywood Foreign Press on fire. But, when we consider its release in the same year as blockbuster Bad Teacher, a film where 39-year-old Cameron Diaz reprises her fondness for just-turned-30 Justin Timberlake, and the sustained moderate success of a dreadful show called Cougar Town, perhaps an Important New Trend has begun.
The trend’s just not as wholesome and loving as the Moore-Kutcher model would have us believe. It’s not about romance; it’s about recreational sex. It is for this reason she refuses to leave the pop culture.