I found it liberating when I first took a much younger lover - but called the police when he ended up tapping on my window... as Nicole Kidman's Babygirl hits cinemas, LISA HILTON reveals the double-edge sword of older women's age-gap affairs
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He was an awkward mix of swagger and uncertainty, strikingly handsome with fair hair and gorgeous green eyes. He was also 23 years younger than me. I wasn't his boss, but we did meet at a work event – and it was only after we'd been speaking for about half an hour that I realised he was trying to chat me up.
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The relationship that began that night lasted six months; and though it was far more significant for him than for me, it also transformed what I thought I knew about myself. He was a confidence boost and a revelation in the bedroom, but he also shone an uncomfortably revealing light on my character.
I'm horrified by the way older men objectify younger women, yet here I was, doing the same to him – until the balance of power flipped and I began wondering what I'd got myself into. The idea of an older woman having 'liberating' sex with a younger man is something of a hot topic right now. From Anne Hathaway playing an almost 40-year-old single mum who falls for a 24-year-old in The Idea Of You, to Miranda July's hit novel All Fours (in which a wife experiences a sexual awakening with a youthful paramour), not to mention the fact the fourth Bridget Jones sees her taking a lover 28 years her junior, it feels like the taboo around younger male/older female age gaps is being comprehensively broken.
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