This is very true. There is a reason for everything. His need for love and acceptance surely was made desperate by maltreatment. Whether he had any overtly sexual relations with those boys, or not, he was wrong to have that type of "special relationship" with them, even aside from "innocently" sleeping in the same bed with them. He drove a wedge between them and their parents, and interfered with the relationship they had with their parents. Their parents were also negligent in making sure their children were not only physically safe, but, emotionally safe".
Michael's very attraction to these children regardless of being overtly sexual, or not, is not "normal", and is a sign of arrested emotional development, which could potentially be dangerous.
If it were completely "innocent" [[e.g. a defect in the adult's emotional state), the adult would have been lacking the love and respect, and acceptance of his parents and others around him when he was young, and so he was uncomfortable with his peers, and so, would feel more comfortable around innocent, very young people, whose interests are very basic, lighthearted, and uncomplicated, and match those of his "escapes" during his young years. However, hanging around and playing with children [[ANY children), would satisfy that need. The emotionally disturbed adult, who needs to FOCUS on a relationship with ONE child, to achieve acceptance and "love" [[EVEN IF NOT fulfilled through physical sexual acts) is at least, a closet pedophile [[and, therefore, at least an emotional danger to the chosen child).
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