Stat is useless unless you clearly define what is meant by sexual interest and define child?
My wife’s friend’s daughter has just had her Prom party, and naturally there are photos on facebook, etc. Some of these 15/16 year old YOUNG WOMEN are simply stunning.
If you want to go for the strictest definitions of the two terms above, is that statement enough to put you in the 1/35? If you showed some of the photos ‘blind’ (ie without disclosing age) to a group of men and asked if they found the ladies attractive, I’d be amazed if it was as low as 1/35.
I suspect a lot would also recognise that they are of an age where it’s very difficult to guess age, and therefore be very cautious about admitting that they find them attractive. But then, i’m 46 and there’s also a moral-age gap thing; if you showed the same pictures to a 20 year old i suspect they’d have less reservations.
But that’s a whole different thing to how I’d classify ‘having a sexual interest in children’.