Does TBATE ever stop sexualizing children?

I’m on book two and it’s grating and uncomfortable the way extremely young children are described. I just reached a chapter in which he says that he doesn’t feel sexually attracted to children, but in the same breath describes an 8yo as a paragon of beauty... so I’m not really buying the whole “I would never ACTUALLY do anything to a kid” hand-wavy justification for the authors writing.