How could GLs find themselves so marginalized within CL activism?

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How could GLs [GirlLovers] find themselves so marginalized [...] within CL [ChildLove] activism? Why were they not more visible and active in their own cause? Perhaps the most important point is that in modern Western societies, with their history of identifying and stigmatizing sexual minorities, people understandably prefer to think of themselves as normal if they possibly can. For BLs [BoyLovers] this is doubly difficult: they have an "abnormal" attraction to their own sex plus an "abnormal" attraction to children. GLs, by contrast, differ from the norm only in the age of consent but with sexually mature bodies should have no difficulty in regarding their attraction as biologically natural even if it is not socially and legally acceptable. This leaves only those GLs who are sexually attracted solely to prepubescent girls who will find it impossible, if they are realistic, to feel their sexuality is mainstream. These "pure" GL paedophiles are in all probability quite few compared to GL hebephiles, i.e. those attracted to pubescent rather than prepubescent girls. [...] A study of male undergraduate volunteers, by Templeman and Stinnett, found 5% of men reported "desire for sex" with girls under 12. The figure rose to 12% with girls age 13-15 [7]. This research was published in 1991, over two decades ago, when those age groups roughly corresponded to prepubescent and pubescent respectively (but 11-14 would have been an even better fit for the latter). There has been a long-term trend toward earlier puberty, though, which in girls now typically starts around age 10. [8]

[7] Templeman T.L. & Stinnett R.D., Patterns of sexual arousal and history in a "normal" sample of young men, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 137-150 (1991)
[8] McKie R., Onset of puberty in girls has fallen by five years since 1920. The Observer, 21 October 2012

source: Article 'A Modest proposal... - For Preventing Children from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public' by Tom O'Carroll; alicelovers-magazine.net/Issue-2/ALM-Issue2.pdf; Alice Lovers magazine, Issue 2; April 2013