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The prevalence in women can be as high as 60%, depending on the definition and method of enquiry used, and female compared to male victims report more negative effects, although a percentage of both men and women report the experience as positive. Validation of effects requires multivariate statistical analysis. Current pro-active procedures to identify paedophiles detect those who victimise boys but do not detect the much greater number of paedophiles who victimise girls. Perpetrators are known to the majority of their female and male victims, and those reported are almost all male; most boys do not consider their prepubertal experiences with older women abusive. 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