It isn't about trust, Lucky

I think telling your mother that you limit how often you are around children is not a good thing. There is an implication in that comment that you do not trust yourself and therefore limit your interactions with children to lower the chances of something happening. That's not the impression we want to give the rest of society.

I trust myself that I have full control over what I do.

I have been able, countless times (ok ok, not countless, but many enough), to take advantage of a girl I am attracted to who wouldn't have been able, or much able, to resist.

But that is not the point. To me, anyway.

I was comfortable with that situation because I knew my feelings were not reciprocated. I knew beforehand that the girl wasn't about to do a move on me.

As a matter of fact, one of my best ever GMs was exactly about that.

But if a girl reciprocated my feelings, and I knew it, and she made a move on me, and we were in such a circumstance that I knew we wouldn't get caught in the act - then I would not refrain from crossing the line. You might call that reckless - hell, I call that reckless too. But what happens between two people in their own time and without harm to anyone else is not the business of anyone but those two people - and my respect for her feelings would easily supersede my respect for any laws aimed at governing our interaction.

I trust myself, but nobody can ask me to give Caesar what is God's.

Because I know what the outcome is, I pre-empt it by choosing never to face that situation. Which means no girls are a reliable presence in my life.