Hindsight is usually 20-20, I guess. I knew that I was different when I was 8 or 9. Other boys would giggle and give attention to naked paintings of women in art books whereas I preferred to look at photos of Michelangelo's David.

I realised that I found men and other boys sexy at the age of 10 when in a communal changing room for swimming I got erect and felt faint and breathless at seeing so many naked teenagers and men.

In my early teens I hoped that my gayness was just a phase that I'd grow out of. (It was a criminal offence in the UK until I was out of my teens). By the time I was 16, I was sure and totally convinced that I was gay.

Then women tried to "change" me. I enjoyed the occasional blowjob or fuck with women but it wasn't as good as the "real" thing for me.

Hindsight tells me that I really knew at 10 yrs old.