JF, it looks like we're going in circles, and I doubt it interests many other readers of this thread. But, I'll press on a bit more just the same...
First, here's a quick summary of the information I've found.
- Reisman's research in "Crafting 'Gay' Children" determined that the total population of homosexual men in America was no more than 2 million in 1991.
- Drs Freund and Heasman of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto reviewed two sizeable studies and calculated that 34% and 32% of the offenders against children were homosexual. In cases they had personally handled, homosexuals accounted for 36% of their 457 pedophiles.
- Dr. Adrian Copeland, a psychiatrist who works with sexual offenders at the Peters Institute in Philadelphia, said that, from his experience, pedophiles tend to be homosexual and "40% to 45%" of child molesters have had "significant homosexual experiences."
- Dr. C. H. McGaghy estimated that "homosexual offenders probably constitute about half of molesters who work with children."
– Of the approximately 100 child molesters in 1991 at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons, a third were heterosexual, a third bisexual and a third homosexual in orientation.
– A state-wide survey of 161 Vermont adolescents who committed sex offenses in 1984 found that 35 (22%) were homosexual.
– Of the 91 molesters of non-related children at Canada’s Kingston Sexual Behaviour Clinic from 1978-1984, 38 (42%) engaged in homosexuality.
– Of 52 child molesters in Ottawa from 1983 to 1985, 31 (60%) were homosexual.
- Psychological Reports, 1986, #58, pp. 327 - 337, reveals that homosexuals, [while representing perhaps 2% of the population] perpetrate more than one third of all reported child molestations.)
- A recent Canadian study of male child molesters revealed the following: (1) 30% of the offenders studied admitted to having engaged in homosexual acts with adults; and (2) 91% of molesters of non - familial boys admitted to no lifetime sexual contact other than homosexual - i.e.., their sexual orientation was clearly homosexual (Marshall, W.L., et. al., "Early onset and deviant sexuality in child molesters," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1991,6,323 - 336).
- According to the report, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles among Sex Offenders against Children" in "The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy," number 1 for 1992. Child sexual molestation is more than three times more common among "homosexuals" than among "heterosexuals,"
- The Simon and Schuster book "Homosexualities," by Alan Bell, reports that 25 percent of homosexual men admit to having had sex with boys who are 16 or under.
The Journal of the American Medical Association found that:
- 50 percent of male AIDS victims reported having sex with an adult male by the age of 16.
- 20 percent of male AIDS victims had sex with an adult male by age 10.
- According to a survey of the male readers of "The Advocate," a popular "queer" newsmagazine, 21% admitted that an adult man committed an act of sodomy or molestation on them by the time they were 15.
To summarize the data regarding homosexuality and child molestation...
Estimates of male homosexuality in Canadian and American studies range between 1% and 3%. So, overall, perhaps 2% of male adults regularly indulge in homosexuality. Yet they account for between 20% to 40% of all molestations of children.
If you can find studies which contradict this claim, I would be more than happy to view them.
NAMBLA exists. nambla.de
Its purpose is to promote the notion that it's ok for men to have sex with young boys. Remember, we were talking about why the Scouts have a rule against gay scout leaders. Your position was, "They must be homophobic" and my point was "not necessarily, logical reasons can be established which support their rules, outside the boundaries of *homophobia*.
In this NAMBLA page, they go to great effort to find studies which support the idea that society shouldn't have rules preventing men from having sex with young boys.
nambla.de
Why do you think they do that? And further, Do you agree with them, and believe adult men should be allowed to have sexual relations with young boys?
-Support for "gay men who love boys" is also found in an editorial in the San Francisco Sentinel, a homosexual newspaper. The editorial states that "the love between men and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality"
("No Place for Homo Homophobia," March 26,1992).
res-So how is AIDS transferred from male to female??
The same way in most cases as it is transferred between male and male. There are exceptions, but it's pretty rare.
Res-Also, is it your view that people should only have sex out of their instinct to reproduce? Is that the only time you have sex?
No, and no, I thought I explained that rather clearly. However, if you find reproductive sexual relations repellent that isn't natural.
Lastly, I have no idea what the motivation behind the author was in describing the behavior so accurately. You seem to be inferring information which is not there. |
