Hi, Gimmy!

That common assumption, brought up in the excerpt you presented, is one I've confronted and taken apart numerous times before: That somehow, a girl whom a pedophile (or hebephile) forms a relationship with will never lose interest in him (or her) first. It's readily accepted in our culture that relationships formed between young people and their peers often tend to be brief due to how fast young people change and move from one such emotional connection to another. Yet, this strangely persistent belief insists that for some reason, if a girl forms a romantic liaison with an adult, it will be one that the girl will automatically hang on to for life, until the MAP loses interest in her first.

Part of this assumption seems to develop from the culturally enforced and ingrained attitude that the only real and valid relationships are monoamorous pairings that last for life. It assumes that the dynamics of intergenerational relationships must necessarily follow the normative blueprint expected of adults in contemporary society.

Of course, this assumption only occurs because there are very few open intergenerational relationships to compare to normative relationships between two adults, and those few that do exist only do so because they occur within the bounds of monogamous matrimony due to being allowed by parents. And these pairings almost always have the younger partner being an older teen who was near the age of majority when she received permission to marry (otherwise, state law likely would not have allowed it even with parental permission).

Nevertheless, this novel appears quite transgressive and provides a hint towards a fundamental shift in public consciousness gradually occurring. The author is to be commended for her courage in questioning one of the most emotionally charged beliefs in contemporary Western society, and for putting truth before popular sentiment.