A "cougar" is a slang term used for such women in the US and is epitomised by celebrities such as Demi Moore, whose husband, Ashton Kutcher, is 16 years her junior.
The 1967 Hollywood film The Graduate, starred Anne Bancroft played the original "cougar", where she chased after a young Dustin Hoffman.
Meet thousands of single Cougars in International with Mingle2's free personal ads and chat rooms.The search giant labelled Cougar Life, which promotes relationships between older women and younger men, “non family safe” despite allowing website that publicise such liaisons between older men and younger women.It reportedly deemed advertisements for Arrangement Seekers.com, which puts "ambitious and attractive" young women in touch with "successful and generous benefactors to fulfil their lifestyle needs”, as suitable to “family” audiences.Google denied it was engaged in sexism claiming that certain “trigger” words can prompt reviews of certain sites.The “cougar” phenomenon has been popularised by Cougar Town, a successful television series in the United States starring Courtney Cox as a 40-something mother who dates younger men.