The scientific stuff is just the same as the old crap that they tried to do about the origins of homosexuality. Read the studies closely and you see either marginal trends that don't stand the test of repeat study, or biased samples that produce the trends as an artifact. Using apprehended people is a particularly bad source of bias in studies on paedophilia: you get mostly cretins and sociopaths mixed with high risk takers and depressed people who couldn't look after themselves.

As for YFs, a young BL called Socrates has suggested we should distinguish between YFs, a label that some people use to refer to boys they have sex with or hope to, from YBs or Young Buddies, where the older person completely rules out the possibility of sex based on his own principles.

You'll find that what the people on this board may have is YBs, not YFs in the ambiguous sense. I have a YB myself and though we are great friends, we have scarcely touched each other. Yesterday he rocked my world by giving me his first-ever hug, after I'd given him a birthday present he really liked. People here with pre-teen YBs may get lots of hugs, but those of us who hang with a teen may need to make do with a smile, which is plenty.

Personally I think the YB is the wave of the future, a great new solution to the problem of BL sexuality. But the self-control and deeply loving respect involved may take lots of input from the holy spirit, and some people might be tempted beyond endurance. In which case, they ought not to have a YB; but as for me, I am at peace with it (peace that surpasses understanding!).