R. KELLY ONCE wrote a song called Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number. It’s all about a young girl desperate to date an older man. The message in the song is that a difference in age doesn’t matter if the mutual feelings are strong enough. I wonder if that really holds true.
In an interview a few weeks ago Graham Norton said: “gay men my age don’t want to date someone of their own age”. A rather broad brush statement, to say the very least. What he may have meant was that he personally prefers a younger model. Nothing wrong with that. Each to his own, but it’s so dangerous to perpetuate the myth that all older gay men are obsessed with recapturing their long lost youth by wanting to bed a series of pubescent twinks.