OOooooh dear! I'm guilty of bad habits (too many to list), kookiness and think I'm attractive (I'm still not sure about "charming") and since I run around shirtless in teeny-tiny shorts so much of the time, I guess I'll have to plead mea culpa to poor taste in style, too (though I have been told that I taste very good...does that make up for it?). But then, being a beach bum (well, a writer who writes at the beach, anyway), I guess I do get away with a lot of things.

I can understand people prefering one particular age group over another based on sexual tastes but I wouldn't want to have to spend the rest of my life with anybody who's very much younger than me since I've had the experience of having to try to keep one entertained while trying to get my latest book done on time.

The other thing I don't understand is the need to constantly belittle people who are older and in less than good shape. Everyone needs love - or at least the hope of it - and if some younger Asian guy thinks a portly European gentleman of advanced years is more attractive than a younger one in better physical condition, I really feel it's nobody's business but that of the two people involved in the relationship.

I remember, as a teenager, some of my peers cruising for portly and elderly European gents around the harbour area back in the 70s. My friends came from well-off families, so there was no question of their looking for a sugar daddy.

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