How would you define a MILF?

plugdjtopkek

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Hi, long time lurker here,

I'm hoping some experts could answer this question.

Basically I know MILF = Mother I'd Like to Fuck however I could have sworn I have seen the tag used in the context of an older woman character not necessarily a mother generally dominant (though not always) with a younger male character.

I have been working on a visual novel for the longest time. My routes are written and are varying in how quickly the romance moves based on the character.

However there is a complaint which is you don't want to be playing a game with H scenes and waiting around too long for anything to happen. (100% agree)

Knowing this I decided in order to keep the romance feel of the other routes, it would be good to have a "mentor" type figure that gives him advice on how to interact with some of the girls in the game as well as give him hands on sexual advice.

I know MILF is generally a popular tag and routes I currently have are a mix of senpai/kouhai/classmates. Was younger step sis route as well. (In a later update since I know that has appeal and there is a good arc that can be written with how the story is laid out.)

So currently my plan instead of picking a Love Interest's Mom, I decided the best way to deliver this would be the older sister of his friend who he hangs out with and gives him terrible advice. His older sister would give him some hands on advice. I'm not sure if this would be considered MILF. I will provide a quick rough draft example below:

Example dialogue:

Li1: “Oh, MC, please don’t tell me you’re taking romance advice from my little brother. His idea of a date is asking a girl if she wants to split a bag of chips during lunch.”

Example scene: (Rough draft but gives a good general feel for her character)

Li1: "MC, all alone with your books again? Don’t tell me you’re waiting for me to rescue you from all this studying.

MC: "Oh, Misaki! Uh, no, just… trying to get through this history chapter. Dai’s out, so…"

Li1: "So it’s just you and me, hmm? How lucky for me to have such adorable company all to myself.

*MC adverts his eyes and drops his pencil* "Misaki clears throat*

Li1: "How are things going with the girls at school?"

MC: "They already think I’m a loser. It's hopeless.”

Li1: “A loser? Oh, MC, they just don’t see what I see. You’re cute, especially when you’re all flustered like this.”

*Misaki gets closer*

MC: “C-cute? That’s not exactly helping my rep, Misaki. I need… I don’t know, something to make them take me seriously.”

*Closes his textbook*

Li1: "Something, hmm? Lucky for you, I’m an excellent teacher. How about a little practice to boost that confidence of yours?”

Overall, I'm not sure if this counts as MILF or there is a potential direction that would qualify it.

Any help/advice is hugely appreciated!
 

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That is a long comment for a simple question. So, here is a long answer.

The term MILF was created for use by people between the approximate ages of 13 and 22-25 to yearn after older women. Basically people in high school and college.

MILF essentially meant a woman about the age of their own mother or their friends' mothers (hence the MOTHER part of the acronym). The woman doesn't actually have to be a mother - but around the age of a woman who could be old enough to have been their mother or a friend's mother.

Doing the math, you can see that a MILF was considered to be a woman between the ages of 35 and 50, approximately. But the user of the term should be in that 13-22/25 range.

Once one moves out of the 13-22/25 age range, it is a bit off to use MILF term in the proper comparison. If you are older (say 30 or 40) -- and want to use the term MILF, you would be yearning for a woman who could be GILF to others (50 to 65, appr.). But it would still be an odd term to use. Just say you like older women.

Sadly, people have - like other words - destroyed the meaning to even use it for younger women than they, as long as the woman has a baby (women as young as 16 or so).
 

plugdjtopkek

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That is a long comment for a simple question. So, here is a long answer.

The term MILF was created for use by people between the approximate ages of 13 and 22-25 to yearn after older women. Basically people in high school and college.

MILF essentially meant a woman about the age of their own mother or their friends' mothers (hence the MOTHER part of the acronym). The woman doesn't actually have to be a mother - but around the age of a woman who could be old enough to have been their mother or a friend's mother.

Doing the math, you can see that a MILF was considered to be a woman between the ages of 35 and 50, approximately. But the user of the term should be in that 13-22/25 range.

Once one moves out of the 13-22/25 age range, it is a bit off to use MILF term in the proper comparison. If you are older (say 30 or 40) -- and want to use the term MILF, you would be yearning for a woman who could be GILF to others (50 to 65, appr.). But it would still be an odd term to use. Just say you like older women.

Sadly, people have - like other words - destroyed the meaning to even use it for younger women than they, as long as the woman has a baby (women as young as 16 or so).
Thank you for the longer reply and the clarification in terms of this site as well!

Really clears things up, not sure why since I understand most other tags might have just been the acronym giving me the wrong impression.
 
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So currently my plan instead of picking a Love Interest's Mom, I decided the best way to deliver this would be the older sister of his friend who he hangs out with and gives him terrible advice.
how about making it the mother of his friend? you could name the game How I met your MILF. some inspiration:
 

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Cougar and milf are almost the same thing now. (cougars seek out younger men)

So MILFs don't have to be moms. If that was the only thing that made someone a milf there would be 16 year old "MILFs" :HideThePain:.
 
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Sadly, people have - like other words - destroyed the meaning to even use it for younger women than they, as long as the woman has a baby (women as young as 16 or so).
There is so much cringe porn burned into my brain with retards behind the camera interviewing a 24 year old who reveals she has a kid and they go "wow, you're a total MILF" ... kill yourself.
 
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milfs can be described as very mature women
 

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Cougar and milf are almost the same thing now. (cougars seek out younger men)

So MILFs don't have to be moms. If that was the only thing that made someone a milf there would be 16 year old "MILFs" :HideThePain:.
It's not hard to define what a MILF is — typically a woman who looks around 40 to 50 years old, ideally an attractive one.
The thing is, most 'MILFs' in adult games clearly don't fall within that age range.
I'm dying over here. :ROFLMAO:
 

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some milfs are also known to be very experienced
 
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I feel like MILF is more like a specific body style. As indicated, being a mother doesn't matter, and age doesn't matter.

Seems like MILF implies:
  • Obnoxiously large tits
  • Soft body that could be chubby
  • A big ass
  • In extreme cases:
    • Hair everywhere
    • Could be gross in interesting ways
    • Too old
    • Sort of ugly bastard except woman

Their intelligence comes in a few standard flavors, but it depends on the male involved:
  • Young gent: She tends to be dominating and controlling and de-virginifies the poor male. She will be pretty dense but very sexually adept. She may need to be rescued by the youthful heroic male.
    • 70% chance this is incest
  • Same age: She could actually be a child free, unmarried MILF, just for the sake of the body type. This is usually an office romance where the man introduces our heroine to sex for the first time. She may be the boss and she will generally be pretty sharp.
    • There's a 30% chance this is an NTR story- be careful!
    • 30% chance this is incest
  • Older man: You are almost certainly in NTR territory. Or this is a family member and it's an incest plot. If this is not NTR she will be a 40 yo virgin somehow and a nimrod. (and even in cases of NTR and she's married there's still like a 25% chance she will still be a virgin. It's just how it works out. :ROFLMAO: )
    • 60% chance of NTR
    • 20% chance of incest

The ironic part of the MILF backstory is, unless it's an incest plot, she will likely not have children. Even in NTR stuff. Your chances of a MILF who is an actual mother is usually like 10% or less it seems.


All my percentages are based on my wild guessing. :ROFLMAO:
 
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The ironic part of the MILF backstory is, unless it's an incest plot, she will likely not have children. Even in NTR stuff. Your chances of a MILF who is an actual mother is usually like 10% or less it seems.
Boo! One of the best parts of MILFs are their hot daughters. Get to fuck both the young and older version of the same girl, essentially. Preferably at the same time :whistle:
 

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for tagging, the f95 definition is obviously where the discussion starts and ends.

for fetish considerations, this is not a logic puzzle or a math problem. having given birth to a child or not doesn't matter, the actual number in the age field doesn't matter (in contrast to appearance of age).

what matters is that the woman is portrayed as a middleaged woman both in look and social role. that's what people are looking for in the fetish.

what they are not looking for are things like:
-an 18yo who just gave birth
-a 45yo who looks like a 20yo
-a 45yo who ACTS like a 20yo. we're looking for homemakers, soccer moms, business women, teachers etc. Women who play a role in the society that spells "a grown woman who's passed her youth and entered middle age."
-an 85yo who has her 60yo children but no grandchildren

in nonvisual formats there's a super common problem of people writing something like "mom still looked like she could pass for a college student" absolutely ruining the whole point of having a middleaged woman in the story. that just shows a massive lack of understanding the fetish, as the writer clearly really wants to write about teenagers not older women.


So currently my plan instead of picking a Love Interest's Mom, I decided the best way to deliver this would be the older sister of his friend who he hangs out with and gives him terrible advice. His older sister would give him some hands on advice. I'm not sure if this would be considered MILF.
not a milf. unless the big sister is like 40+ and has heavy aunt vibes.

I have a character bit like this. she's 28 and plays a very soft, caring, motherly and naive role in contrast to the real mom who's a busy career woman. while mom was working the oldest sister was always the one who was left to take care of her younger siblings, cooking and cleaning like a trad wife. so her attitude towards her 20yo brother is more like a mom than a sister. - still not a milf, but I just thought I'd bring this up as it might be the compromise you were looking for.

that said, in your scenario I'd 100% want to go for the moms of the girlfriends. like I'd ignore the daughters at every possible interaction if her mom was at play. I'd be super annoyed to even talk to the daughter and would insult her at every turn in hopes that the game wouldn't force me to interact with her anymore.
 
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The first reply hit it dead on. It was just a way for boys to conceptualize attraction to adult women like their moms. Society so heavily pushes the idea that girls are at their absolute most beautiful around the boys' own age, so being into adult women felt to them like they were going against the grain somehow. It had to be its own special thing.

Once a boy grows up there's really no reason to think in those terms. At that point those women are just his peers, not some abstract idea of an adult who's like his mom but sexy and horny for him.
 

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Hi, long time lurker here,

I'm hoping some experts could answer this question.

Basically I know MILF = Mother I'd Like to Fuck however I could have sworn I have seen the tag used in the context of an older woman character not necessarily a mother generally dominant (though not always) with a younger male character.

I have been working on a visual novel for the longest time. My routes are written and are varying in how quickly the romance moves based on the character.

However there is a complaint which is you don't want to be playing a game with H scenes and waiting around too long for anything to happen. (100% agree)

Knowing this I decided in order to keep the romance feel of the other routes, it would be good to have a "mentor" type figure that gives him advice on how to interact with some of the girls in the game as well as give him hands on sexual advice.

I know MILF is generally a popular tag and routes I currently have are a mix of senpai/kouhai/classmates. Was younger step sis route as well. (In a later update since I know that has appeal and there is a good arc that can be written with how the story is laid out.)

So currently my plan instead of picking a Love Interest's Mom, I decided the best way to deliver this would be the older sister of his friend who he hangs out with and gives him terrible advice. His older sister would give him some hands on advice. I'm not sure if this would be considered MILF. I will provide a quick rough draft example below:

Example dialogue:

Li1: “Oh, MC, please don’t tell me you’re taking romance advice from my little brother. His idea of a date is asking a girl if she wants to split a bag of chips during lunch.”

Example scene: (Rough draft but gives a good general feel for her character)

Li1: "MC, all alone with your books again? Don’t tell me you’re waiting for me to rescue you from all this studying.

MC: "Oh, Misaki! Uh, no, just… trying to get through this history chapter. Dai’s out, so…"

Li1: "So it’s just you and me, hmm? How lucky for me to have such adorable company all to myself.

*MC adverts his eyes and drops his pencil* "Misaki clears throat*

Li1: "How are things going with the girls at school?"

MC: "They already think I’m a loser. It's hopeless.”

Li1: “A loser? Oh, MC, they just don’t see what I see. You’re cute, especially when you’re all flustered like this.”

*Misaki gets closer*

MC: “C-cute? That’s not exactly helping my rep, Misaki. I need… I don’t know, something to make them take me seriously.”

*Closes his textbook*

Li1: "Something, hmm? Lucky for you, I’m an excellent teacher. How about a little practice to boost that confidence of yours?”

Overall, I'm not sure if this counts as MILF or there is a potential direction that would qualify it.

Any help/advice is hugely appreciated!
I'd define it as any woman of a good age to be a mom!! And if they're older - like grandma age - then they're a HAG! I have started using hag as an endearing term after it's been popularized by other artists. I am really fond of it hehe