On Boots & Sabers (and in this morning's newspapers) there's been a concerted effort to dis-associate the homosexuals from ephebophilia. Here's a little lesson in Lying With Words:
"Pedophilia" is the perversion which means that someone over the age of 21 is molesting a CHILD--defined as someone under the age of 12 or so. So the Homosexual Movement is talking about "pedophilia" because, frankly, few homosexuals chase boys that young.
But when the Catholic Church had "the problem," it became clear that the homosexual predator-priests had a perversion now known as "EPHEBOPHILIA", wherein the pervert molests boys between the age of 12 and 18.
Here are a few interesting little items:
Victimization over the life span: a comparison of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual siblings.
Balsam KF, Rothblum ED, Beauchaine TP. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2005 Jun;73(3):477-87.
Compared with heterosexual participants, LGB participants reported more childhood psychological and physical abuse by parents or caretakers, more childhood sexual abuse, more partner psychological and physical victimization in adulthood, and more sexual assault experiences in adulthood. Sexual orientation differences in sexual victimization were greater among men than among women.
Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons.
Tomeo ME, Templer DI, Anderson S, Kotler D. Arch Sex Behav. 2001 Oct;30(5):535-41.
In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation. This research is apparently the first survey that has reported substantial homosexual molestation of girls.
And from Family Research Council:
However, despite efforts by homosexual activists to distance the gay lifestyle from pedophilia, [not yet termed "ephebophilia" in this item] there remains a disturbing connection between the two. This is because, by definition, male homosexuals are sexually attracted to other males. While many homosexuals may not seek young sexual partners, the evidence indicates that disproportionate numbers of gay men seek adolescent males or boys as sexual partners. In this paper we will consider the following evidence linking homosexuality to pedophilia:
· Pedophiles are invariably males: Almost all sex crimes against children are committed by men.
· Significant numbers of victims are males: Up to one-third of all sex crimes against children are committed against boys (as opposed to girls).
· The 10 percent fallacy: Studies indicate that, contrary to the inaccurate but widely accepted claims of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, homosexuals comprise between 1 to 3 percent of the population.
· Homosexuals are overrepresented in child sex offenses: Individuals from the 1 to 3 percent of the population that is sexually attracted to the same sex are committing up to one-third of the sex crimes against children.
· Some homosexual activists defend the historic connection between homosexuality and pedophilia: Such activists consider the defense of "boy-lovers" to be a legitimate gay rights issue.
· Pedophile themes abound in homosexual literary culture: Gay fiction as well as serious academic treatises promote "intergenerational intimacy."
MALE HOMOSEXUALS COMMIT A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF CHILD SEX ABUSE CASES
And there's more:
· An essay on adult sex offenders in the book Sexual Offending Against Children reported:"It is widely believed that the vast majority of sexual abuse is perpetrated by males and that female sex offenders only account for a tiny proportion of offences. Indeed, with 3,000 adult male sex offenders in prison in England and Wales at any one time, the corresponding figure for female sex offenders is 12!"[1]
· Kee MacFarlane, et al., writing in Sexual Abuse of Young Children: Evaluation and Treatment report:"The large majority of sexual perpetrators appear to be males (Herman and Hirschman, 1981; Lindholm and Willey, 1983)."[2]
· A report by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children states: "In both clinical and non-clinical samples, the vast majority of offenders are male."[3]
· A study in the Journal of Sex Research states that "pedophilia does not exist, or is extremely rare, in women."[4]
And finally:
· A study in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that homosexual men are attracted to young males. The study compared the sexual age preferences of heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men, and lesbians. The results showed that, in marked contrast to the other three categories, "all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two male age categories," which included males as young as age fifteen.[36]
· In The Gay Report, by homosexual researchers Karla Jay and Allen Young, the authors report data showing that 73 percent of homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys sixteen to nineteen years of age or younger."[37]
So when people attempt to use the term "child"--get the definition of the term.
There are probably more pedophiles that are women than we think. I just don't believe these women are being reported and/or punished because of how society views a woman seducing a boy.
ReplyDeleteDad 29, you are doing amazing work on this crucial issue!!!!! Thank you!!!! I wish I had discovered you a long time ago!
ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd throw this into the discussion: one of my close friends in college "came out" during our last year before graduation. He had never really been a diligent student, but when our circle of friends got together to party, it was just good clean fun, no drugs, no crazy stuff.
But after he "came out", he quickly started going down the tubes. He soon dropped out, and never graduated. He immersed himself in the homosexual sub-culture in the Green Bay area, which involved a lot of drug use and permiscuous sex. He was self-destructing, and it wasn't that he was afraid that he was an outcast. Our friends would have stayed with him to help him, and he knew that.
But, reading your work on the underage issue brought back something he told me during one of the last visits I had with him some 12 years ago (I don't even know if he's alive today). He told me that THE fantasy among homosexual men was to "seduce" an underage boy.
That was it. I couldn't believe he said it, and then he quickly back-peddled and said he never did that, and he wouldn't, but he fantasized about it.
I never saw him again, but I can't help being haunted by the thought that he might have gone on to victimize a boy out there, messing him up and turning him into the kind of walking dead person that my friend had become.