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Slightly off topic - but the importance of context is everything. I'm pretty sure when in the article linked by the OP, the quote by Milo in it mentions the word "boys" many times, Milo was meaning "boy" as in context of when he was 17 and his first "adult" relationship with an older man. Apparently in the gay culture of the time or even now, according to Milo, the term "boy" is often used when an older man has a relationship with a younger man but in this context a legally consenting younger man, and usually that is what "they" mean by "boy". Not literally a boy.

Since in the same conversation he had at the time, he also shared the tragedy of his first illicit molestation, and I believe he was comparing the two (perhaps naively) and it got conflated.

But People are going to believe what they want to believe and at the end of the day it's up to the listener to believe Milo or not. This I know - there is no way legally anyone could be convicted as a paedophile based on what I saw in Milo's interview.

I then saw a video the next day of George Takei sharing his first sexual encounter at 13 and it was pretty eye raising, to say the least.