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6 - SEX AND OLR GAY MEN
Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle. Many of his panns had survived both the AIDS crisis and heights of homophobia unknown to younger generatns.
IntroductnAt the heart of this chapter are the stori of 11 gay men, aged 43–71, who spoke about adventuro sexual enunters wh strangers. Both narrativ clud evince of the effects of ageism and loss, how the are exprsed, and, le wh the work of Simpson (2015), how they n be chapter rts on stori appearg across three books that the thor has wrten on gay men's life stori and which foc on age and ageg. The first (Robson, 2008) ncerned three generatns of Atralian gay men, aged 22–79, and how changg social norms affected the ease wh which they uld be public about their sexualy.
The send nsired how age and ageg affected gay men's relatnships (Robson, 2013). Based on material om an ternatnal sample of men aged 20–87, examed long-term relatnships, fatherhood, var lived experienc of sgle men and generatnal differenc regardg gay marriage. The third book (Robson, 2017) looked at gay men's workg liv om the perspective of three generatns of gay men om the same ternatnal sample, as well as their views and experienc on retirement om paid work and on old age/later central argument this chapter is that while ageg gay men do acquire and n ll on ‘rourc of ageg’ (Heaphy, 2007) to bat gay ageism, the are limed by the nstrats imposed by their ageg bodi and how the are unrstood.
THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
Gass is a gay man whose only sexual attractn is to men signifintly olr than he is. The younger men have more tert sports than their partners and their gay peers who are attracted to men their own age.
GAY OLD MEN AND BOYS VIOS
The younger men tend to be more mascule than their gay peers who are attracted to men their own age.
He wrote, “I stggle more to expla my attractn to olr gay men to my gay iends than I do to my straight iends. ” No one has llected reliable statistics, but age dispary seems to occur more equently gay relatnships than heterosexual on.
But the se of a celebry, the tabloid headl the labels may be ed sensatnalistic ways, or even clu more vilently homophobic nam like pedophile and predatory pervert. ” I was once asked by a young gay man, “Why did you e out at 40? But the gay upl may be far more sexually active than many same-sex upl.