I apologize in advance, because I'm going to write some things that people may find disturbing.
It was not so long ago that quasi-sexual relationships between men and boys were considered quite immoral, but not particularly harmful to the boy. It was illegal, you could go to jail for it, the public was shocked and horrified, but at the end of the day, the guy gave the boy a blowjob, so what? The ancient Greeks wrote glowingly about these relationships, as beneficial to both the boy and the man. - or did I just dream that up?
Contrast this scenario with, say, the forcible rape of a 10 year old girl by a 40-year-old man. In that case, the girl will certainly be scarred, both physically and emotionally, and probably for the rest of her life. But the boy who got blowed by Father O'Flannertyhan? Not so much.
And yet in the law, these two vastly different crimes are treated equally.
Part of the public's outrage about the Man-Boy scenario has to do with the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church. The outbreak of reports of pedophilia was followed immediately by an army of lawyers seeking to exploit the kids, their families, the Church and its liability insurance carriers for their own benefit. The kids were encouraged to emphasize and exaggerate the horror of the experiences, and the psychological damage that was done, in spite of the fact that often these relationships went on for years, with the boys willingly spending time with the pedophile priests, knowing exactly where those visits would lead.
Which is not to say that a 12-14 year old boy can legally consent to this sort of activity with a man, just that the lawyers had to create scenarios of psychological torture to explain to jurors why, if the kid found these experiences so horiffic, he continued to voluntarily visit the rectory every Sunday evening for 5 years.
The Church and its insurers have paid out more than a billion dollars in damage awards and settlements in the U.S. Would anyone exaggerate the psychological damage in order to get a seven-figure cash settlement? Hmmm.
Happily, I've never been involved in, or even heard of anyone I knew, being involved in any of these activities, despite going through 12 years of Catholic education. Heck, I even vacationed at a farm owned by a couple local priests on a few occasions. Neither I nor my parents ever gave it a second thought.
But I don't think NAMBLA is likely to make any inroads to get the laws changed to suit their preferences, as the Hoe-Moe-Sexuals have done with "marriage." As hinted above, if it hasn't happened in Massachusetts, the rest of the states are certainly safe.