Here’s lookin’ at you, sexual and intellectual peer.
Gay, straight, man, woman – NO ONE should address their lover as “kid” or “kiddo.”
It is not sexy. Not sexy at all. Just all sorts of condescending, with a faiiint smack of pedophilia.
Alternately, however, most everyone will always have a desire to be romanced in Paris. So feel free to channel Bogart in that sense. Surrriously, by all means –
Channel away!
If that were the case in Paris, it’d be “CHANEL away!”