I have a lot more sympathy for you than Otter does, but I'm afraid to say that even if your intentions are entirely pure, it would not be remotely wise or healthy for you to become intimate friends with children. At best people will have their suspicions and concerns about your intentions.
My other concern is about where the line blurs between simply wanting to play and have innocent fun with children, and something more sinister. Your intentions might start off as pure, but it's possible, as might have been the case with Michael Jackson, who I don't believe had sexually predatory feelings towards children from the start (irrespective of what may have later transpired), that you eventually become 'too familiar with them', so to speak, and lose sight of the social barrier we, quite understandably, place between adults and children.
Adults, unlike children, have undergone puberty, and unless they are entirely asexual, they are naturally sexual creatures. That is why even those adults who believe they have entirely innocent feelings towards children should probably not be left alone to spend time with other people's children unless there is a reasonable and legitimate purpose for them to be in their presence (i.e. they're a teacher or they're babysitting). It's hard to know what can transpire between adults and children where those social barriers break down.
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