To Brad Miner: Oh, I agree with that - "Child" in the context I was using it means pre-pubescent or lacking secondary sexual characteristics, so chronological age is an imprecise guide at best. The Report's choice of 10 seems rather early and the alternative suggestion of 13 seems, perhaps, rather late.
Again, puberty is an event in females and a process in males
For what it's worth, the only age group in which females predominate is the age-range 1 - 7, clearly pre-pubescent. I would hesitate to describe such contact as "heterosexual" in any meaningful sense.
- Michael Paterson-Seymour
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