Not so much whether you have EVER made that assumption, but whether that assumption is informing your research.

I, too, made that assumption a long time ago; but it has been proven incorrect.

I know you support the Age of Consent.

How do you think two people with a deeply emotional, personal connection to whom the Age of Consent is a barrier (among others) should be expected to handle that?

What if the younger person makes advances and unwittingly puts the older person in a position where they have to submit to the advances and betray the "trust" of society or betray the younger person's trust and/or sacrafice the relationship?

Do you believe guys who are attracted to much younger girls for whatever reasons who are in turn attracted to them for whatever reasons should just have to refrain from allowing personal relationships with to grow?

Why isn't personal freedom preferred where the relationship is strongly mutually desired and there's a pre-existing bond based on equal treatment, respect, trust, etc. that will likely persist over the course of both lives regardless?

How do you feel about a society that breaks up valued relationships like that which are literally in no danger whatsoever of being detrimental to either person's happiness or health (aside from the socially imposed consequences)?

How do you feel when the wholesome feelings and desires of two people who are truly, deeply happy in one another's presence are steamrolled by the fear-mongering of parents and other parties in a reactionary response to the honest disclosure of those feelings and desires, forcing those two happy, hopeful people to become separated against their will (and against the knowledge of the younger person, i.e. straight up positional manipulation)?

Despite all of the beautiful things those two people have done for each other over many years, so easily forgotten in the face of (ghasp) pedophilia?

This even when NO criminal acts (or even expressions of criminal intent) have taken place?

Why do you think the pervasive value sy system, severely misguided and outdated and based on bigotry, should rule with such an iron fist?

How do we handle the cases where the value system is dissonant with the experience and ends up ruining relationships and even lives as a result?

If you haven't given careful consideration to every single one of those questions and many more, you aren't qualified to conduct research about pedos.

You need to investigate the illicit (albeit typically non-criminal) relationships between age-disparate individuals with mutual feelings before you make a statement or even a suggestion about the underground social concern that is pedophilia.

Do you expect pedophiles to flee from love: yes or no?

Do you expect pedophiles to live a self-imposed loveless life in order to uphold a questionable set of values that directly condemns them in all cases with a guilty until proven innocent (and even then) mentality behind it and zero space for exceptions?

Yes or no?

Are we trying to fix things by digging our heels in, or do we seek the genuine truth?

I'd love to hear your insights.

~ Loom