do you ladies realize old men away from old ladies are the life of the party. I'm 61 she is 34 we laugh our ***** off have fun enjoy ourselves everyday together. call it what ever you want its fun! in Asia they call us DOFs if u can figure that out.

Yes there are cougars but it is a highly over hyped subgroup who is a cliche' for advertising.

And highly offensive to most women of a certain age to be grouped into. The thinking being there is no fool like and old fool regardless of gender. Little being complimentary about a younger person mooching off the experience and assets of another.

so we still aren't certain as to how the word cougar came to describe a "sexually active mature woman"

became popular in 2001 book called cougar about older women's love life

The author should be lynched. I seriously dislike the word in this context

Whats this

Whats this

That my dear friend is a real live stuffed cougar.. When you asked if they were real I took it in the literal sense and posted you a picture..





I never knew that til today that is where the term came from.. I have to agree it is a pretty bad description and yet I can think of others I would not like as much.

that's not to origin that's when it become common it may have been started in western Canada something about a cat n a rabbit

Some stuff I found about possible origin.


Most of its popularity stems from a 2001 book by Valerie Gibson, called Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men. This is the sort of book you buy as a joke for your newly single women friends, but one that they will read with interest when no one else is around.
When seeking the origin of terms, lexicographers look for printed evidence. In hunting cougars, the term, not the women or the wild cats, I found a March 3, 2001, article in the Globe and Mail of Toronto which credits "��cougar"�� to a Canadian website called Cougardate.com, which the story says was started in 1999. It is, as you have guessed, a website where older women can meet younger men.
The story given in that article is that one of the two women who founded the website was told by a nephew that the two ladies were like cougars in search of small defenceless animals. The nephew said he picked up the term from players on his hockey team. So, 1999 is the earliest probable date we have for the term and it’s fairly reliable.

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The term started from a Canadian NHL Hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks around 1989/1990. When discussing the groupies that would come to the games....the older groupies were called Cougars. I am 99.9999% certain that this is the original origin of the term.

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The origin of the word cougar as a slang term is debated, but it is thought to have originated in Western Canada and first appeared in print on the Canadian dating website Cougardate.com.[5] It has also been stated to have originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a put-down for older women who would go to bars and go home with whoever was left at the end of the night.

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Looks like Canada for sure.

thank you for sharing this.

I'm curious, what age difference constitutes cougar from normal dating?

When there's more than a ten year age difference.


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Come to mama, purrrrr!

Cradle snatchers or dirty old man !

joke aside, in my honest opinion if two consenting adults fall in love, it's their life and their happiness. Who are we to judge them? Do we have to be envious of a happy and loving couple irregardless of their age gap? When and man and a woman truly love each other, age does not matter.

Finally some intelligence around :)

so it appears that those pesky moose botherers are to blame then? **


























**before Canadians get upset with me, it's a joke term i use for my Canadian friends

The use of calling women cougars dates back to the wild west days when diseased/traumatized/mentally ill prostitutes were referred to as "wildcats" because they would bite, claw, and sometimes violently attack those who attempted sex with them.

Later the myth continued in foreign pornography who were unfamiliar with the smaller wild cat but cougars are present world wide.

And later in some mental health journal references as slightly more polite description of deviant sexual behavior.

Likely since Wildcat's were/are popular sports team names in the fifties on the use of wildcat probably was edited by a publisher when the book was written but it could have been the authors choice because cougars are beautiful powerful animals versus the sometimes meek looking natural wildcat.