Sex, taboos, and young people

Yesterday in a tram I saw a group of boys of about 13, one of whom looked extremely fuckable. Obviously I am aware that actually having sex with him would be illegal, and I would not even think of trying it. Still it made me wonder why is it such a taboo to say that they sometimes look quite fuckable (as opposed to, say, expressing a wistful desire to rob a bank in a situation where everybody knows that there is no question of the person really doing so).

One thing I've always wondered about with pedophiles: the media always tells us that people who have such desires can't help it and will always be a danger to society. I wonder whether that is true, and if yes, why? I think most of us have a certain number of sexual desires that cannot be realized due to being illegal, immoral, expensive or physically impossible, and most of us manage to live with that without getting ourselves in trouble. How are pedophiles any different, and why? Of course it could be that media is talking about the pedophiles who actually have acted on their desires and gotten caught, and therefore already proved to have less self-control than the general population, but are these people really less likely to learn from experience than, say, rapists and people who like to make sweet love to their neighbors' sheep or hamsters?

All this talk of screwing the young reminds me of a funny blog I found recently (via Ilkka). The guy has all the straighforward-rough-realism style of Danimal without really having Danimal's grip on reality. He has figured out the basics sexual market value theory, for example that both youth and money have market value, and one can be exchanged for the other, meaning that a Western man in his forties can attract a number of women in their twenties if he moves to a much poorer country. He did just that, and now he enjoys a very good time with very young women in the Philippines, and good for him (and them, I suppose). So far, so good. But where it gets really hilarious is that after pages and pages of describing how young girls are beautiful and sexy and how horrible it would be to have sex with old hags his age the man has absolutely, absolutely no idea why on earth women might want to have sex with young boys. Heh.