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A glamorous gran claims she has picked up more than 100 toy boys on dating apps over the last five years - because it makes her feel sexy and empowered.

Fun-loving 56-year-old Gaynor Evans says sleeping with younger men, some half her age, has given her a new lease of life.

One toy boy was 30 years her junior, but despite the age gap, the grandmother-of-three says the benefits of dating younger men - aside from the best sex of her life - are obvious.

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She said: "It’s fairly simple really - they’re young, fit, and fun.

"Younger men have got stamina, drive, enthusiasm and are able to repeat perform."

After two failed marriages, Gaynor, from Enfield, says she has a ‘renewed vigour’ courtesy of her baby-faced beaus and makes no apologies for her behaviour.

She said: "I don’t want to age gracefully, I’m quite happy to be a disgrace."

Describing herself as ‘firing on all cylinders’, Gaynor says younger men are attracted to older women because they know what they want and aren’t trying to tie them down.

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She said: "Older women are confident in our own skins, there’s no dancing around. We know what we’re going to do and how to do it."

"We’re not pinning them down for dates, we’re not chasing them on the phone or saying ‘what are you doing this weekend, where are you taking me?’"

Gaynor meets her toy boys on nights out, through hook-up app Tinder and specialist dating website toyboywarehouse.com - who she is also an agony aunt for - and goes on a couple of dates a week, though it can be more.

"I always have a few on the go. I’m not saying you sleep with one, one night, another the next but over the course of a month you might see a couple of different people," she said.

The cougar prefers to go out with men between the age of 25-35 because they have more passion - and not just in the bedroom.

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She said: "Younger men always look forward, they are telling you things they are going to do, where they are going.

"They are talking about today and tomorrow whereas older guys talk about today in a fairly negative way and go on about what they used to do in the past."

Apart from age, the raunchy recruiter doesn’t have a specific type.

She has been out with lawyers, bankers and fitness instructors from across the world including Ireland, Australia, Italy, Switzerland and France.

She said: "I prefer tall and intelligent but other than that I have dated dark, blonde and a really fit ginge!

"I love muscles but don’t really mind if they are lean - as long as they are keen."

Although the physical side is important to Gaynor, it’s not all about sex.

She said: "I’m not good with people I can’t relate to. I like a brain. I like the intelligence."

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Gaynor met her first husband as a teenager and was married by age 18.

After having three children together, the marriage started to have its difficulties and Gaynor had no choice but to leave.

The grandmother then fell into another relationship almost immediately with a man 18 years her junior who became husband number two.

The marriage lasted nearly 20 years and the couple had a son together.

But when that too ended in divorce Gaynor decided her love life needed a rethink.

She said: "I thought: I’m not going to let this get me down, I’m just going to have to turn this around so I reinvented myself - lost weight, went to the beauticians and started going out with my daughters, who at that point were in their late 20s, early 30s, because my good friends were all settled with their husbands or partners."

Young men would approach her and after initially rebuffing their efforts Gaynor decided to give them a chance.

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She said: "In the early days when I was newly single, I was a bit wild.

"I’d never had a one-night stand in my youth – I didn’t know what they were – though obviously I do now.”

In spite of her carefree approach Gaynor admits getting too involved with some of her toy boys.

"These boys don’t intentionally hurt you and you have to keep your feet on the ground - even if you’ve got your legs in the air - but you have to be real about it.

"You’re not going to keep hold of them in the real world - Madonna and Cheryl Cole might but not me."

Family still ‘come first’ for the matriarch. She’s a proud grandmother and her youngest son, age 24, still lives at home.

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She said: "When his friends are round I go into mother mode.

"I smother them and I don’t even visualise them in any other way than I am the mum."

Close to her two daughters, Gaynor enjoys going on nights out with them but admits eldest daughter Laura, 37, didn’t always approve of her mum’s behaviour.

Laura said: "I just wanted my mum to be normal. I thought: why couldn’t she just find a man that’s a similar age and maybe wants to settle down."

But she now accepts her mum’s wild ways – although she still doesn’t want to see Gaynor in pulling mode: "If I’m out with my mum she might have an encounter or a kiss but I don’t like that in front of my face."

Gaynor, who has written a blog, Sex & the Signposts, about her exploits, admits her toy boy liaisons are unlikely to have a long-term future.

But she isn’t ready to give up her younger men just yet.

She said: "It’s not worth worrying about what other people think about you.

"You’ve got to do what makes you happy and young toy boys make me very happy."