ArchivedWhy not PREVENT pedophilia?- Gay advocates correctly state that most child molesters are heterosexual males. But this is a misleading statement. In proportion to their numbers (about 1 out of 36 men), <B>homosexual males</B> are more likely to engage in </B>sex with minors</B>: in fact, they appear to be <B>three times more likely</B> than straight men to engage in <B>adult-child</B> sexual relations <I>Freund, K. and R. I. Watson, The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homo sexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 18 (Spring 1992): 3443.</I>
- While no more than <B>2% of male adults are homosexual,</B> some studies indicate that approximately <B>35% of pedophiles are homosexual.</B><I> K. Freund et al., Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 10 (Fall 1984): 197. </I>
- <B>Homosexual pedophiles victimize far more children</B> than do heterosexual pedophiles <I>Freund, K. and R. I. Watson, The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 18 (Spring 1992): 3443. </I>
- It is estimated that <B>approximately 80% of pedophilic victims are boys who have been molested by adult males </B><I>Schmidt, Thomas (1995). Straight and Narrow? Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate. Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity Press, p. 114.</I>
- Kurt Freund, et al., "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," <I>Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy </I>10 (1984): 197. "The proportional prevalence of <B>offenders against male children</B> in this group of 457 offenders against children <B>was 36 percent</B>." See also, Kurt Freund, et al., "Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Erotic Age Preference," "Approximately one-third of these individuals had victimized boys and two-thirds had victimized girls. This finding is consistent with the proportions reported in two earlier studies," p. 107.
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