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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING

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To: one_less who wrote (1375)3/5/2002 7:10:45 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Well, Gosh. I really didn't take that point from it at all (that hetero is more likely than homo to abuse). Actually, I seem to recall, and will say this without having anything to back me up but my memory, that the statistics were that pedophilia occurs in approximately the same % of each population, be it hetero or homosexual... and that's because pedophilia is NOT related to a gender preference.

Since all I excerpted was that paragraph, and you drew conclusions on the whole study based on that alone, it is my fault that you see it as biased in some way. We would need I think to read the whole article.

By the way, I didn't read the 74% as being anything more than pointing out that a lot of the men who abused boys were active heterosexuals prior to the offense, just to prevent us from leaping to the conclusion that man on boy somehow precluded the abusers being heteros.

My only "agenda" was to point out that I believe it is wrong to relate homsexuality to pedophilia as being somehow causative and to present an article that argued that position. Whether you accept that or not is up to you.
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