>>2548107I mean, they made the mistake of playing too hard with their fantasy. We all think it's kind of cute and endearing when a young man goes out to explore, inspired by the books he read about other boys and men exploring.
The kind of people who look for comfort in little girls, especially when they're deep in their fantasies, do come off as weird or even potentially dangerous if you have a little daughter. That certainly sparks an instinctual disgust. It's not fair, his enjoyment of little girls might even be pure, but it's so common for it to be sexual that it becomes the default to distrust them.