Growing up, I always liked boys who were within a few years younger than me, I just thought they were more fun to be friends with. This age range followed along with my age and I can remember somewhere around seventh grade - when I had realized that liking boys was a "bad" thing - taking comfort in the fact that my attractions would follow me into adulthood. Then it stopped. When I was about 17, my AOA capped at about 15, and then began to go backward until the lower limit reached 12 or so. These days, my level of attraction to a boy is really dependent a lot on his maturity. I find little guys as young as 7 fun to play with, an intelligent 9 year old might make a casual friend, but its not until about 12 that most boys would seem to be ready for a deeper friendship/mentoring relationship. And that is where my sexual attractions kick in. My upper limit stretches a bit for my yfs that I have known since they were young, but usually is still around 15. Nate |