This doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever, yet I still find it creepy when 39-year-old men date teenagers. I liken it to my black friends who pray the rapist in the news isn't a black guy and my Muslim friends who pray the terrorist isn't Muslim -- an irrational hypersensitivity to the actions of other members of my community -- I just can't help but get unnecessarily embarrassed by the whole "gay man preying on young boys" message it conveys, even realizing what one gay man does does not represent all of us. If it makes you feel any better, though, I did lose a lot of respect for Paul Walker when it was posthumously revealed that he started dating his girlfriend when she was 16 and he was 33. That's even illegal, yet when an 18-year-old girl dates a 15-year-old female classmate that gets her put in jail, but I suppose that's a whole other issue/sore spot.
