5 Feet of Fury

‘Viagra may spell the demise of the dirty old rich man/gorgeous gold-digger combo rather than the ascent of it’

Julie Burchill:

In the old days a young girl who hooked up with an old man could rely on the fact that his withered old manhood wasn’t really going to come into the equation – let alone anything else – and that she could probably just get whatever she wanted from him, be that a father figure or a sugar daddy, simply by letting him paw her around and show her off a bit.

But when actual sex with a septuagenarian is on the menu, it would surely test the gag reflex of all but the most devoted volunteers for Help The Aged. (…)

Women love wealth and power, men love looks, goes the old line – but that’s a hangover from the time when women had no wealth or power, and if they were to achieve any position in the world they had to marry it. This is changing now.

And I couldn’t help noticing that even as her pensioner boyfriend bit her bum, Jennifer Wade’s sexy bod sported a T-shirt bearing an image of James Dean, forever frozen in youthful beauty. It may be better to be an old man’s darling than a young man’s fool – but there’s no fool like an old fool, either.