My issue with age stems mainly with two things.
One, being that I have a younger brother who is two and a half years younger than myself. And me dating any person nearing my brother's age instantly becomes very awkward and morally wrong to me.
Two, me already feeling that it is morally wrong for my own reasons, I have the disposition to date only girls of my age group or within about one or two years. But much to my dismary, all the girls in my age group are dating, guess what, guys who are upwards of two years older than myself. And more often than that, they are up to three, four, even five years older then themselves. I know teenage, high school girls who flirt around with grown men. All of this is highly disturbing and I am forced to rely very heavily on my dashing good looks and killer personality to get girls despite this handicap. Luckily I don't have to lower my standards for someone I wouldn't date due to this, I just work it out.
Still. It makes things very difficult for individuals such as myself.
And even then, the idea of me, being 18 dating a girl just entering high school, beginning her teenage life while I am legally an adult, that all just seems pretty... well, wrong I'm sorry to say. I don't hate people who do this really, just people who take advantage of that situation (if you catch my drift) and of the girls involved. Then I do hate that person, and really they just make me lose faith in common descensy.
I don't want to be dating a chick whom, when I was trying to get toothy, amateurish blowjobs from girls my age, she was still playing with her Barbie Dolls (if I may draw a picture for you).
So, it does matter to me, yes. I want someone who will age with me at the same time and rate, and who shares the same generational expierences as myself. I don't think that's too much to ask.
That's my stance on the subject.
