As a rule of thumb, it is probably quite normal that younger and more attractive men end up with the more attractive girls or women.

Of course, like other men, I like the most beautiful girls for me. Not all of them, but some.

The problem is: I am in my fifties. While I try my best to maintain an attractive physique, there are limits to what I can do, and I admit that many men in their twenties are physically more attractive than I am.

However, I can still manage to find women in their early twenties for genuine love relationships, and I even can be selective.

However, there are a few rules to observe. The headline of this article states: How to compete. But what I actually mean, is: How to avoid having to compete. Or: how not to come out the loser in a competition.

One important aspect: If I want a young women (around 20) to develop interest in me, I will have a much easier time if she believes I'm in my thirties (or late twenties), not my fifties.

OK, you can work on your attractiveness through facelifts. But facelifts are not a hundred percent effective. If you stand next to a person who is 30 years you junior, you will probably lose out.

The trick is not to be comparable.

An amazing fact of face recognition psychology is that all humans have a much harder time judging faces of humans of other races than of humans of their own race.

To many white people, all black people look the same. And to many Asian young women, the faces of many white men look much more similar than they would look to young white women.

I have been in remote Asian places, telling people that I'm 25 years younger than I actually am, and met with no disbelief. I could never do this in Europe, in spite of a facelift, and in spite of taking good care of my physical appearance.

So, if you want genuine love relationships in spite of being beyond the age in which one typically has them, it makes sense to be at a location where the locals are not your own race. Which is why I have always preferred Asia over, for example, Latin America.

Furthermore, it makes sense to choose a location where there aren't too many other foreigners. Unfortunately, one of the impacts of globalization is that you now have a substantial foreign (Western) population in many Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and even Cambodia.

The largest number of Western residents, you typically have in capital cities or economic centers.

The least number of Western residents, you typically find in provincial cities of countries with a large population, such as Indonesia and, most of all, China.

In many Asian countries, you find young local women who are attracted to Western men. However, if you are in your fifties and still don't want to lose out, you better go to places where there aren't too many attractive young Western men.