To put something in bold, put it inside the tags < b> < /b> (without the preceding space).

All taxonomies are subjective categorizations and the one who proposes them generally does so unilaterally, i.e., via personal thought. Patterns occur in nature but not with the level of precise delineation that they appear to take on when we use our limited tool, human speech, to describe them.

Fair enough.

Instruct me, methodologically, on how I could realistically substantiate this to your satisfaction (without introducing impossibilities like "enlist 60 randomly chosen little boy lovers in a poll, not excluding those who have only thought about it but never done anything"). In the meantime, even if I overlook the thousands of posts I have read by little boy lovers in the past, how could anyone in today's society imagine that most lbls are sexually active with little boys? Do you seriously think they are?

I never made the claim that gathering accurate statistics on boylovers is feasible. I don't expect you, or anyone else, to do this. However, in the absence of conclusive evidence, you should not be stating assumptions as fact.

In terms of aggressives being on the boards, yes, it has been known to happen. However, I first found my way into the BL community by blundering into their true online habitats, and I believe the overlap between those and the well-monitored boards is very small. That's because the well-monitored boards don't do anything they find exciting.

I disagree.

I believe that, as with everyone else, the "lunatic" or "aggressive" pedophiles are complex individuals who do more online than simply prowl the darkest corners of the internet sharing sadistic fantasies and pornography. I don't believe that they are in the BL forums for excitement; they go elsewhere for that. I believe they are in the forums for other reasons.

I know for a fact that more than a few people you would term as "aggressive" have frequented the forums in the past and I have no doubt some still frequent the forums today.

I also know for a fact at least one person who would probably classify as "lunatic" in your book used the forums as well (though he didn't stick around very long).

There are two kinds of "desires of a violent nature," the desire to actually violate people, and vulnerabilist (s/m)sexual fetishes where people may simply fantasize about things like tying others up with their consent, but have no actual invasive, violating, non-mutual desires at all. You may want to be specific about what you are referring to.

Believe it or not, both kinds are present in the BL community, on these forums.