The "common premise" that children resist sexual advances from adults and have to be forced to make sex is simply nonsense. Many children participate. Most researchers, often people with obvious bias against child/adult sex, agree on this point. Virkkunen has even used the notion participating victim to describe this fact.
The initiation of sex in pedosexual relations we consider separately. Here some scientific results about participation:
In the meantime, however, the gradual crumbling of the myth of the "pure", asexual child has helped us become aware that children are erotically attractive creatures, and not infrequently act like determined little seducers (Albrecht, Bender & Blau, Kerscher, Lafon et al., Landis, Lempp, Rossman, Sandfort).
Virkkunen, certainly not a proponent of paedophilia, said that in over 64 % of the cases he investigated the child himself had helped precipitate, or at least contributed to, the seduction, as, for instance, by making repeated visits to the adult partner ( Virkkunen, p. 128, cf. Powell & Chalkley, pp. 71, 73 ).
Under the pressure of police questioning, the child often minimizes his own part in initiating the sexual activities, and the questioning officer is inclined not to challenge it. The figures, then, are clearly distorted to the disadvantage of the adult. Nevertheless Gebhard ( 1965, p. 821), whose subjects were prisoners sentenced for sexual offenses and thus a sample likely to include some of the worse cases (all of which distorts the statistics even more), came up with the figures shown in this table:
Boys of 0-11 years Boys of 12-15 years
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Encouraging 52.3 % 70.3 %
Passive 6.8 % 11.0 %
Mixed 0.0 % 2.2 %
Resistant 40.9 % 16.5 %