A few years ago, Lexi Walters was happily engaged when she found out that her fiancé had been cheating on her with prostitutes for the entirety of their three-year relationship. At 31, Walters found herself back at square one, plunging into a dating scene with a rapidly shrinking number of options. She decided to take a trip from her home in Georgia to New York with her gay best friend to see if she might have better luck there.

Over the course of a week spent in the cheesiest, most dude-packed venues the city has to offer, she noticed she was getting a lot of attention from a particular type of suitor. “Only younger guys would come up to me, and I’m like, ‘Go away, you’re pubescent, you’re 21 and 23. I’m like 30 years old,’” she says. But they liked that she was successful and confident,

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