As I told you, I am more or less computerless now. So, my appearances are not what they used to be.

I want to reply here to Ethan's 607053.

That's a very high standard for a romantic relationship, if you're defining "serious" as strong enough that it might get mentioned in a conversation.

Normally this would be a pretty natural standard. Indeed, it is what coming out is about for interracial couples and same sex couples. Not a version of "don't ask don't tell" Other than relationships which are compromized for other factors, such as a labor relation or strong family disapproval -- but those happen to heterics too.

Oh? Boys who need platonic mentors and friends have to turn away the applicants? Last I knew, programs like Big Brother/Big Sister were quite short on good big brothers.

Which is a consequence of prohibition, and you know it; and which will never be solved with legalization, and you know it too. But you do not care about those boys because their suffering doesn't make headlines for antis.

And if the interest was motivated strongly by the sex, you would not expect such boys to come from disproportionately troubled home situations.

...and boys from troubled home situations are always more likely to engage in all sorts of socially deviant behavior, not just pedophilic or homosexual sex, and not just sex actually. Some of it negative, such as hard drugs or crime; but some of it just deviant, such as pedophilic or homosexual sex.

Most of the abuse survivor tales tell of feeling powerless. And while a few rebellious and independent youth stand out in our minds, most are pretty cowed by grown-ups.

Or maybe the truly abused children are a subset of children whose ways of relating to others do not include expressing their feelings or likes and dislikes? Unlike the rest of children who constitute the majority? There are larger differences in personalities among people, so this is rather plausible to me.