As a travel blog with both a specific Cougar Travel category and a generic Cougars category, we understand we might be a little biased on this question. But we're nonetheless a little bit skeptical about the controversy coming out of New Zealand, where an Air New Zealand contest and ad is drawing vociferous criticism from rape prevention and survival groups. It's not that rape isn't a serious issue, and we're obviously not making the "men can't get raped" argument. It's just that we're having trouble seeing "pro-sexual violence" in this lighthearted campaign.

The contest offered cougars—defined for Air New Zealand's purposes as any 35+ woman who preys on men at least 10 years her junior—the opportunity to win free tickets to a rugby tournament. Contestants had to send pictures of themselves and their "cougar mates" out on the town. The objections are coming from New Zealand's Rape Prevention Education, which insists that the ad&3151;the ad, not the contest—is degrading to women and insulting to male rape survivors. Again we're highly skeptical. Is it really the phrase "meat hungry cougars," which is one of the lines that keeps getting cited? Eh.

If nothing else, the entire absurdist tone of the fake nature documentary makes it hard to take anything about it seriously. Luckily the magic of the internet allows us to embed the ad, which we've done after the jump. See for yourself.]]> Omri 2010-01-21T17:02:23-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/2/9222/27279

First there was the Samantha character on Sex and the City, then an entire generation of hot, over-35 single women started identifying themselves as cougars, and then there was the Cougar Convention. But now that Courtney Cox has gone an made the term quite official with her new show "Cougar Town," cougar parties are sprouting up all over, including on the high seas.

That's right; the "World's First International Cougar Cruise" is open for reservation, and the 3-night getaway cruise is basically just an excuse to drink copious whiskey sours and use an entire box of condoms in one long weekend. The boat ships out on December 3 from San Diego and returns on December 7 after making a port stop at Ensenada, Mexico and a "fun day at sea." ]]> JetSetCD 2009-10-02T10:08:53-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/26/13121/5743

Florida's got a problem; an STD problem which, for once, has nothing to do with spring break on Daytona Beach. Apparently, the abundance of retirees in the Sunshine state include a frisky few not content to play euchre and shuffleboard for the rest of their lives.

The New York Post infiltrated the Central Florida elderly community known as The Villages, where 70,000 residents live with a female-to-male ratio of 10 to 1, and returned with tales of black market Viagra and golf cart trysts. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-01-26T13:18:02-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/