This may sound a bit sexist, but I do think there is a tendency for men to think they are still Handsome Hunks even when they have run to seed.....whereas we women think we have turned in to the back end of a bus just because we get a grey hair/wrinkle/one mm of extra flab, etc etc.

Every time some creep like the Italian prime minister (or whatever Berlusconi is!) slimes all over some 20 year old bikini girl, it just gives men the message 'see, you can be physically disgusting and still pull hot babes'.....

(Not saying that about all men - but the media generally paint a picture of unattractive males still pulling attractive females, but never the other way around!)