Needed: Statistics of hetero vs homosexual at it relates to sexual abuse

[LittleClarkie]

I've never found a source I liked for this statistic. I know that more sexual abusers are hetero, and I'd like to be able to state that at my local freepers, but I need the evidence to back me up.

Whatcha got for me people.

[skooooo]

1. There may not be any such statistics...

You can't measure everything so exactly.

[Maat]

2. Search on this board.

I am a retired social worker, and someone had posted a credible study; I can't remember where.

It stated that 99% of pedophiles identified themselves as heterosexual. This is commiserate with my experience. I view pedophiles as a separate category - they're just plain mean, selfish, and violent; they are opportunists, and sometimes go for any available, vulnerable child.

But, by far, the sexual abuse accounts I have encountered involve male-to-female abuse.

I will search for the study. We really have to nip that stupid idea (pedophile-LBGT connection) in the bud RIGHT NOW.

[DrRang]

3. Doesn't it seem logical that . . .

most of the Catholic transgressions on this matter are an adult man victimizing a little boy, not because pedophiles are homosexual, but because the Church turns little boys over to priests and little girls over to nuns?

[Maat]

5. Excellent point.

A pedophile will victimize the vulnerable child that is put in front of them.

And part of the problem here is the attitude that 'It's just a boy. Boys like sex. Boys need to be quiet about what happens. After all, female property, capable of getting pregnant, wasn't victimized here, rendering the female unfit for marriage.'

I'm probably not phrasing it right, but I see a sick attitude when I speak with victims.

I work in Dependency Court (Abuse Court) as a law clerk; I'm still seeing the same attitude.

Some 'heterosexual' males view sex with a young boy as a typical pleasure outside of marriage.

[Lindacooks]

4. Found this:

In 1978 psychologist Nicholas Groth screened 175 men who had been convicted in Massachusetts of sexual molestation of children and referred by a court for psychological evaluation. He found not a single gay man in this sample. Every one of the perpetrators was either an exclusive heterosexual, a bisexual with a predominantly heterosexual orientation, or a fixated pedophile with no sexual interest in adults.<4>

His conclusion? That "the adult heterosexual male constitutes a greater risk to the underage child than does the adult homosexual male."

In the same year, researcher David Newton reviewed the scientific literature and found no reason to believe that anything other than a "random connection" existed between homosexual orientation and child molestation.<5>

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In 1988, renowned sex researcher Kurt Freund at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto studied two groups of paid volunteers and found that gay men responded no more to male child stimuli than heterosexual men responded to female child stimuli.<6> He later described as a "myth" the notion that gay men are more likely than straight men to be child molesters.<7>

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The key to understanding research on this issue is to recognize three things. First, a person's sexual attraction to adults, whether homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual, is wholly distinct from an attraction to children. A person can be attracted only to adults, only to children, or occasionally to both, but these attractions are independent facets of a person's psychology.


http://www.robincmiller.com/gayles4.htm

[Lindacooks]

6. And this:

Myth #2 - Most sexual abuse of boys is perpetrated by homosexual males.

Pedophiles who molest boys are not expressing a homosexual orientation any more than pedophiles who molest girls are practicing heterosexual behaviors. While many child molesters have gender and/or age preferences, of those who seek out boys, the vast majority are not homosexual. They are pedophiles.

http://www.survivingthememories.com/id8.html

[LittleClarkie]

7. Thank you for looking those up

much obliged.