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We see children as, among other things, sweet, innocent, vacant, smooth-skinned, spontaneous, and mischievous. We construct the desirable as, among other things, sweet, innocent, vacant, smooth-skinned, spontaneous, and mischievous. There’s more to how we see the child, and more to how we construct what is sexually desirable - but not much more. To the extent that we learn to see “the child” and “the erotic” as coincident, we are in trouble. So are the children.
Kincaid, Erotic Innocence, p. 14
