...sexual contacts between older and younger partners are rather commonplace occurrences and [...] the number of cases reflected in criminal statistics is only a faint echo of what really goes on (I-35).
Among Pieterse's subjects, 7.4% had had only casual contacts, and 8.8% no contacts at all (I-27). 49.3% of her pedophile subjects preferred having only one partner (I-28).
There is every reason for criminologists to wonder whether these sections of the law, because of their side-effects, do not cause more human harm than good (I-41).
... children don't try to escape from their plight. Therefore, on the contrary, they often bring their comrades to the home where they are welcome (II-22).
statement of a 33-year-old man loving boys 7 to 14: "The relationship between Tony and me was so close that if he was in pain I felt it, and if I was in pain he felt it. Now we can laught about this, because that emotional bond is past. If something had happened to him during our relationship I would have been prepared to commit suicide. I knew this; Tony knew this: if you die, I'll die with you."
The mother of Dolf, the little friend of 57-year-old Alexander, put it rather well: "Since Alexander doesn't have to fight any more against himself, he has gained space and time to fight with himself. As long as a pedophile is in a state where he has to fight against his feelings, he has no chance of winning the struggle to improve himself." (II-87)