In my own discussions with women about paedophilia...

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In my own discussions with women about paedophilia, I've noticed that the picture they have in mind is usually of a boy, eyes streaming with tears and face buried in a pillow, being buggered by a cruel rapist. I have suggested that the 'actual' image may often be of a skinny fourteen year old standing above a balding man and ordering him to suck it. But women persist in seeing the boy as a stand-in for a girl and the older man as a counterpart of the heterosexual rapist.

source: 'States of desire' by Edmund White; 1980; Quote used in 'Power and consent' by Eric Presland; From the book 'The Betrayal of Youth - Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'; Edited by Warren Middleton; CL Publications, London; 1986; Book White from: 1980