Now that you girls are in my head part of the people I think of as "my people" (haha!), I suppose I can ask. So, I went back to India this last time, and had a nice, flirty date with a man. For something like the first time in ages, I actually wanted to be with a man. This has sort of made me think, because I think honestly now, it's the person not the gender really. Because I wouldn't have gone out with this man if he hadn't ticked all the boxes I'm usually looking for, i.e. he was considerate, open to the long conversations I so enjoy, argumentative, incisively intelligent and very good looking in a not so macho/traditionally sexy sense but in an entirely charming and pleasant way. Why wouldn't I go out with someone like this just because he's a man, I wondered. And so I went out. And liked it. But that doesn't mean anything to my sexuality, oddly. I mostly prefer women even now. Strange is life.
I wondered whether the fact that he is about three years younger than me mattered a lot to this. While he's an incredibly mature nineteen year-old (sigh! a teenager!), I'm the um... older, more experienced one in the relationship, which is a dynamic I like with anyone I'm with. Maybe that's all there is. I wonder.
Comments, ladies?
