Don't call 'em cougars, OK? Yeah, they date younger guys. But ... "I don't hunt," says Donna Martinson, 43, giving her blond mane a shake. "They hunt me."

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Wheeler, a fiery redhead who lives outside Baltimore, leaned back in her chair and sighed. "I adore younger men," the 60-year-old purred. "I liked younger guys even when I was in high school—like a year or two younger. I was a cougar before there were cougars."

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Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64. They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

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'I'd still go there' Mirren is more than an attractive older woman. She has, well, oomph, a certain presence that defies age. Sophia Loren has this, too, and she is over 70.

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