Cougar Bait: 32 Younger Men We Love

“It’s Robert in character as Edward Cullen in Twilight that makes me feel 16 again,” confesses one MORE editor. “While I love my husband, of course, I relished reliving the heady rush of new lust.”

A former Abercrombie & Fitch model, he wasn’t cast as “Pretty Boy” Floyd (Public Enemies) for nothing. And have we mentioned that he was an Abercrombie & Fitch model?

His character in Lovely and Amazing had a fling with Catherine Keener, and he played opposite Jen Aniston in The Good Girl. It’s called experience, people.

How can you not be wild about Harry when he says things like, “I’ve been out with a couple of women who have been older than me. I think it’s the maturity thing more than anything else. . ."?

The Cougar will happily huddle with Friday Night Lights’ The Smash anytime.

Have you seen you seen the film 17 Again? Where he starred opposite decade-older Leslie Mann? Perhaps more importantly, have you seen his abs?

Because of the two brothers he’s the least likely to embarrass us and, as firstborn, most likely to make us Queen. (See, we’re already using the royal pronoun.)

Yes, we are into this guy from He’s Just Not That Into You.

He looks 25 but is actually 34, so you don’t have to feel you’re reaching directly into the cradle. Plus, he played a much younger Essex to Helen Mirren’s aging Elizabeth in the BBC version of Elizabeth’s life, and doesn’t every cougar think of herself as a queen? [See Prince William]

Tu mama, indeed!

“. . . of Battlestar Galactica fame,” sighs one MORE editor. “I have no specifics other than that I’m addicted to a canceled sci-fi TV series as a result of his…uh, work as an actor.”

He may be married to ScarJo, but he played Sandra Bullock’s love interest in The Proposal, so a gal can hope, can’t she?

That wicked Madge toying with you? Come, tell mama all about it.

Because he famously flirted with Dame Eileen Atkins a few weeks before she turned 70. “No,” she scolded. “That would be highly inappropriate.” But being hit on by Colin was “pure bliss,” Dame Eileen admitted.

As of this writing, we’re still not quite sure exactly what his character on True Blood is up to. Maybe we don’t care. As long as the shirt stays off.

The Nip/Tuck cutie has been linked to both Jennifer Aniston and Renee Zellweger. A trend, perhaps?

As Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights, this irresistible high school bad boy (you remember the type) has an affair with an older woman. (OK, she was only 30, but still . . .)

So sweet, so heartbreaking, in Slumdog.

“I’m a former cheerleader, so the whole [New England Patriots] quarterback thing really does it for me," says a MORE editor. "Plus, have you seen him in a tux?”

He actually managed to horrify his drug queenpin mother on Weeds (no mean feat) by, yes, carrying on with an older woman.

Our Terminator hero. Next up: a co-starring role opposite awesome Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.

From Harold & Kumar to House to the White House (for real!) as associate director of the Office of Public Engagement. We do love a young man with range.

The star of Crazy/Beautiful and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center was discovered in an elevator. (How come we never discover ourselves in an elevator with guys like this?)

Who said, “Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother . . . If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would.”

His character on Entourage had a brief, hot affair with an (OK, slightly) older, much more powerful woman (played by Carla Gugino), and we’d like to keep hope alive that this could happen in real, non-Hollywood life.

Watch him graduate from Gossip boy to broody Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.

If he’s good enough to intrigue Vogue editor/tennis buff Anna Wintour, he’s good enough for us.

Superb in The Hurt Locker, and how can we not love a man who says he learned a lot about “how to love a woman” by playing a gay artist (in Brother To Brother).

A bartender on American Idol who plays guitar, has a scruffy beard and wells up when he talks about his family? The beer-swilling college girl inside us swoons at the thought.

Because they were the ones responsible for the Saturday Night Live skit Mother Lover with Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson.

Because, after all, he’s the one who started it all.

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