Zembla's "little ones" seem to go to age 6, but in terms of the 5-15 scheme his "kids" and "youth" categories are most applicable. Kids, for him, seem to be 7-12 yos. Youth are 13-15. One might better the dividing line at 11 1/2, splitting the range exactly in half. Wherever you place it, you will surely find consistent assertion of sexual agency occurring far more frequently once that line is passed. But you will find many 9 or 10 yos who are more assertive than other 14 or 15 yos, especially if you take class, cultural, and geographical differences into account. An actual BL dealing with an actual YF is going to have to think mostly about how much sexual agency that particular individual boy is ready and willing to consistently claim. Categorizing him as a "kid" or a "youth" won't help much with that task. I would change the category boundaries as follows Pedophilia(0-6yo); Hebephilia(7-14yo); Ephebophilia(15-21yo) in isolated societies not subject to westernization, children were allowed to engage in sexual practice and, as a rule, this began from the age of 7, which corresponds to the version that puberty begins with Adrenarche, right at the age of 7 years. |