Any sexual relationship with a child is not worth the risk in today's climate.

Most people in the MAP will agree with you on that, concerned aunt. I certainly do. Which is why we strive to avoid doing so, and the majority of us tends to succeed.

can't talk in behalf of a RSO, but I could talk as a victim. The crime against me was a crime of opportunity. I was just in wrong place in the wrong time.

Again I will point out that if you were molested against your will, that is very different than a consensual intergenerational relationship. Differentiating the two is important because there is a huge difference in reality, and not doing so simply because the law doesn't is aiding and abetting the promulgation of a stereotype and an intellectually dishonest framing of language that perpetuates hatred against MAPs by conflating genuine MAPs with SCMs [Situational Child Molesters, for the newbies]. That being said, the acknowledgement of this differentiation does not give MAPs a license to break these laws; our agreement that intergenerational relationships in the current climate is a very bad idea supersedes any need to utilize disingenuous, emotionally charged terminology to keep us on the "straight and narrow."

I want to say that I'm sorry about what happened to your family as a result of your victimization :-( This is another consequence of the hysteria: If someone is falsely accused or believed of molesting an underager, the lack of substantive evidence often doesn't matter. This is what happens when emotion trumps reason under any circumstances.