hardheadjarhead
Senior Master
I always find it interesting that when a man rapes a boy, homosexuality is to blame. When a man rapes a girl we never seem to blame heterosexuality.
Note the majority of victims of molestation are girls. The ratio of reported molestations of girls is greater than two to one.
http://www.rainn.org/statistics.html
On the same site you'll find reference to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that 98% of perpetrators of sexual assault on boys reported they were heterosexual.
Researchers Groth and Birnbaum report in another study "The belief that homosexuals are particularly attracted to children is completely unsupported by our data… In our twelve years of work with child molesters, we have found… the child offender who is also attracted to and engaged in an adult sexual relationship is heterosexual. The adult heterosexual male constitutes a greater risk to the underage child than does the homosexual male."
(A.N. Groth and H.J. Birnbaum, "Adult Sexual Orientation and Attraction to Underage Persons", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1978, 7:175-181.)
Every one of the perpetrators in this study was either an exclusive heterosexual, a bisexual with a predominantly heterosexual orientation, or a fixated pedophile with no sexual interest in adults.
Our culture seems to want to homogenize sexuality as much as we can and to deny variance. It is difficult for some of us here to accept homsexuality versus heterosexuality--much less acknowledge varying degrees of bisexuality. Gays themselves often reject the latter notion, preferring also to think in black and white terms. We're drawn to simplification.
In our efforts to simplify our categories we lump pedophiles in with homosexuals. This double demonization unfairly stigmatizes homosexuals, and the tone has become shrill and paranoid.
The Family Research Council's website offers a 31 page report titled "Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys." Focus on the Family alleges that a child molester is 17 times more likely to be gay than straight.
Much of the Right's statistics come from discredited psycholigist Paul Cameron. Cameron has perpetrated the notion that 44% of all serial killers are homosexual; and that 2/3rds of homosexual men ingest "biologically signifcant amounts" of feces. The American Psychological Association dropped Cameron in 1983 for ethics violations, and he's been censured by four other professional associations and a federal court.
This whole issue reminds many of the old act of "Blood Libel," where Jews in the twelfth century were accused of kidnapping Christian children so they could use their blood in ritualistic sacrifices by mixing it in with Passover bread. Jews by the hundreds were rounded up and slaughtered or burned alive.
The rumor has persisted ever since.
Regards,
Steve
Note the majority of victims of molestation are girls. The ratio of reported molestations of girls is greater than two to one.
http://www.rainn.org/statistics.html
On the same site you'll find reference to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that 98% of perpetrators of sexual assault on boys reported they were heterosexual.
Researchers Groth and Birnbaum report in another study "The belief that homosexuals are particularly attracted to children is completely unsupported by our data… In our twelve years of work with child molesters, we have found… the child offender who is also attracted to and engaged in an adult sexual relationship is heterosexual. The adult heterosexual male constitutes a greater risk to the underage child than does the homosexual male."
(A.N. Groth and H.J. Birnbaum, "Adult Sexual Orientation and Attraction to Underage Persons", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1978, 7:175-181.)
Every one of the perpetrators in this study was either an exclusive heterosexual, a bisexual with a predominantly heterosexual orientation, or a fixated pedophile with no sexual interest in adults.
Our culture seems to want to homogenize sexuality as much as we can and to deny variance. It is difficult for some of us here to accept homsexuality versus heterosexuality--much less acknowledge varying degrees of bisexuality. Gays themselves often reject the latter notion, preferring also to think in black and white terms. We're drawn to simplification.
In our efforts to simplify our categories we lump pedophiles in with homosexuals. This double demonization unfairly stigmatizes homosexuals, and the tone has become shrill and paranoid.
The Family Research Council's website offers a 31 page report titled "Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys." Focus on the Family alleges that a child molester is 17 times more likely to be gay than straight.
Much of the Right's statistics come from discredited psycholigist Paul Cameron. Cameron has perpetrated the notion that 44% of all serial killers are homosexual; and that 2/3rds of homosexual men ingest "biologically signifcant amounts" of feces. The American Psychological Association dropped Cameron in 1983 for ethics violations, and he's been censured by four other professional associations and a federal court.
This whole issue reminds many of the old act of "Blood Libel," where Jews in the twelfth century were accused of kidnapping Christian children so they could use their blood in ritualistic sacrifices by mixing it in with Passover bread. Jews by the hundreds were rounded up and slaughtered or burned alive.
The rumor has persisted ever since.
Regards,
Steve
