Re: loving little girls

I know from stories on this board that others have claimed to believe otherwise but how can you be sure that it is not a wishful rationale on your part?

You can't. Nobody has any idea of what is happening in someone else's mind. We all rely on what they tell us (including non verbal communication as appropriate in the context.) So if someone is lying to please, we can't tell that lie from a truth which had the same content.

but I currently do not believe they WANT or NEED it.

Strictly speaking that depends on how you define "need" - nobody will die from lack of sexual contact so it's not a need; but sexual contact improves a variety of indicators of physical health and emotional / social stability so it is a need.

But of course they want it. If they didn't want it there wouldn't be a need for specifically tailored laws against it. There are no laws against things that nobody wants to do.

In my experience I have not seen or sensed a sexual desire by a LG for a man.

In my experience, I've only had that twice. It was two girls who were BFFs when I was in my teens, apart from being my first LGFs, both or either legitimately. Each in different instances tried to get sexy with me. I stopped them, but not out of a sense of it not being right - simply a sense that we could get caught. Which is also how I know I would give in if I wasn't going to get caught. So it seems, in my perception, to be comparatively infrequent, but common enough to be an issue. And this is with society making all kinds of efforts to keep children asexual; if society didn't make so much to hide sexuality from children, many more would be interested. And of course, it may also have to do with me being a teen back then - obviously my very looks were more accessible to them back then.