When--or more likely, if--your palate matures, you'll understand.
Seriously, your tastes do evolve. Younger folks tend not to like stronger-flavored things. Things you hated as a child become palatable as you age. Proven fact.
As for strong aged cheese, you may or may not learn to like it. Some do, some don't. When I was a kid, I hated even aged Cheddar. Now I love things like Esrom, which my wife can't stand to be in the same room with (and which, yes, is "morse" spelled backward, go figure).
But saying it's "rotting" is just plain wrong. If you want to get technical, alcohol is a product of decay (it's yeast excretions). That tender steak you enjoyed the other day is tender because it's been partially digested through aging. And bread is fluffy because of more yeast excretions. I could go on, but perhaps you get the point.
OTOH, there's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu -- I'd draw the line well before that point. But that's just me.