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Issue
No.: 247by: Timothy J.
Dailey, Ph. D.
Scandals involving
the sexual abuse of under-age boys by homosexual priests have rocked the Roman
Catholic Church. At the same time, defenders of homosexuality argue that youth
organizations such as the Boy Scouts should be forced to include homosexuals
among their adult leaders. Similarly, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN), a homosexual activist organization that targets schools, has
spearheaded the formation of "Gay-Straight Alliances" among students.
GLSEN encourages homosexual teachers--even in the youngest grades--to be open
about their sexuality, as a way of providing role models to "gay"
students. In addition, laws or policies banning employment discrimination based
on "sexual orientation" usually make no exception for those who work
with children or youth.
Many parents have
become concerned that children may be molested, encouraged to become sexually
active, or even "recruited" into adopting a homosexual identity and
lifestyle. Gay activists dismiss such concerns--in part, by strenuously
insisting that there is no connection between homosexuality and the sexual
abuse of children.
However, despite
efforts by homosexual activists to distance the gay lifestyle from pedophilia,
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
Homosexual
apologists admit that some homosexuals sexually molest children, but they deny
that homosexuals are more likely to commit such offenses. After all, they
argue, the majority of child molestation cases are heterosexual in nature.
While this is correct in terms of absolute numbers, this argument ignores the
fact that homosexuals comprise only a very small percentage of the population.
The evidence
indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to
the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To demonstrate this it is
necessary to connect several statistics related to the problem of child sex
abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to one-third or more of
child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less than three percent of
the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage of the population
(homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of child sexual
molestation.
· 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]
A Significant Percentage
of Child Sexual Abuse Victims are Boys
· According to the Journal
of Child Psychiatry: "It was commonly believed fifteen years ago that
girls were abused in excess of boys in a ratio of about 9 to 1, but
contemporary studies now indicate that the ratio of girls to boys abused has
narrowed remarkably. . . . The majority of community studies suggest a . . .
ratio . . . in the order of 2 to 4 girls to 1 boy."[5]
Another study found that "some authors now believe that boys may be
sexually abused as commonly as girls (Groth, 1978; O'Brien, 1980)."[6]
· A study of 457 male sex
offenders against children in Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found
that "approximately one-third of these sexual offenders directed their
sexual activity against males."[7]
The actual
percentage of child sexual abuse victims who are boys very likely exceeds the
above estimates. Many researchers echo the view of the Journal of Child
Psychiatry study, which refers to the "under-reporting of the
incidence and prevalence of sexual abuse in boys."[8]
· Dr. Robert Johnson, in Medical
Aspects of Human Sexuality, reports: "The vast majority of cases of
male sexual molestation is not reported. As a result, these young men keep both
the incidents and their feelings to themselves."[9]
· The Department of Justice
report on child sexual exploitation explains why the percentage of boy victims
is underestimated: "Adolescent boy victims are highly likely to deny
certain types of sexual activity. . . . They are embarrassed and ashamed of
their behavior and rightfully believe that society will not understand their
victimization. . . . No matter what the investigator does, most adolescent boys
will deny they were victims."[10]
· The Journal of Child
Psychiatry adds: "Boys are usually encultured into an ethos where
self-reliance, independence and sexual prowess are valued, while showing hurt
or homosexuality are denigrated. . . . This may lead to powerful repression or
deletion of the experience, with failure to report."[11]
Homosexuals Comprise Less
than 3 Percent of the Population
· Relying upon three large data
sets: the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey,
and the U.S. census, a recent study in Demography estimates the number
of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent, and the
number of exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent.[12]
· A study of the sexual
behavior of men in the United States based on the National Survey of Men (a
nationally representative sample comprised of 3,321 men aged twenty to
thirty-nine, published in Family Planning Perspectives), found that
"2 percent of sexually active men aged twenty to thirty-nine . . . had had
any same-gender sexual activity during the last ten years. Approximately 1
percent of the men (1.3 percent among whites and 0.2 percent among blacks) reported
having had exclusively homosexual activity.[13]
· J. Gordon Muir, writing in The
Wall Street Journal, discusses a number of studies that have found that
homosexuals comprise between 1 to 3 percent of the population.[14]
· In a survey of studies on
homosexuals in different populations, the Archives of Sexual Behavior reported
a random sample of Hawaii State residents interviewed by telephone. The study
found "just about 3 percent of males and 1.2 percent of females as having
engaged in same-sex or bisexual activity."[15]
However, this relatively higher number is attributed to the fact that the study
was not limited to exclusive homosexuals, but included all those who at some
time in their lives engaged in same-sex activities.[16]
Homosexual Pedophiles are
Vastly Overrepresented in Child Sex Abuse Cases
Homosexual pedophiles
sexually molest children at a far greater rate compared to the percentage of
homosexuals in the general population. A study in the Journal of Sex
Research found, as we have noted above, that "approximately one-third
of [child sex offenders] had victimized boys and two-thirds had victimized
girls." The authors then make a prescient observation: "Interestingly,
this ratio differs substantially from the ratio of gynephiles (men who
erotically prefer physically mature females) to androphiles (men who erotically
prefer physically mature males), which is at least 20 to 1."[17]
In other words,
although heterosexuals outnumber homosexuals by a ratio of at least 20 to 1,
homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex
offenses.
Similarly, the Archives
of Sexual Behavior also noted that homosexual pedophiles are significantly
overrepresented in child sex offence cases:
The best epidemiological evidence indicates that
only 2 to 4 percent of men attracted to adults prefer men (ACSF Investigators,
1992; Billy et al.,1993; Fay et al.,1989; Johnson et al.,1992); in contrast,
around 25 to 40 percent of men attracted to children prefer boys (Blanchard et
al.,1999; Gebhard et al.,1965; Mohr et al.,1964). Thus, the rate of
homosexual attraction is 6 to 20 times higher among pedophiles."[18]
The stark imbalance
between homosexual and heterosexual child molestationswas confirmed in the Archives
of Sexual Behavior study itself, which divided 260 pedophile participants
into three groups: "152 heterosexual pedophiles (men with offenses or
self-reported attractions involving girls only), 43 bisexual pedophiles (boys
and girls), and 65 homosexual pedophiles (boys only)."[19]
In other words, 25 percent of the offenders were homosexual pedophiles--or 41
percent if those who molest girls as well as boys are included.
Other studies report
an unusually high percentage of child molestations by homosexual pedophiles:
· A study on pedophilia in the Psychiatric
Journal of the University of Ottawa reported: "According to the
literature, findings of a two-to-one ratio of heterosexual to homosexual
pedophiles have been documented."[20]
· The Journal of Sex
Research reports a study that included "199 offenders against female
children and 96 offenders against male children. . . . This would indicate a
proportional prevalence of 32 percent of homosexual offenders against
children."[21]
· A study of male child sex
offenders in Child Abuse and Neglect found that fourteen percent
targeted only males, and a further 28 percent chose males as well as females as
victims, thus indicating that 42 percent of male pedophiles engaged in
homosexual molestation.[22]
ARE MEN WHO MOLEST BOYS REALLY 'HOMOSEXUALS'? Gay Apologists Insist on a Simplistic Stereotype of Pedophilia
Central to the
attempts to separate homosexuality from pedophilia is the claim that pedophiles
cannot, by definition, be considered homosexuals. Relying upon a questionable
methodology[23], the gay advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign
published a "Fact Sheet on Sexual Orientation and Child Abuse," that
states: "A sexual abuser who molests a child of the same sex is usually
not considered homosexual."[24]
The basis for this
claim is the view that pedophiles who molest boys cannot be considered
homosexual if that individual has at any time been married or sexually involved
with women.
The fact is,
however, that the terms "homosexual" and "pedophile" are
not mutually exclusive: they describe two intersecting types of sexual
attraction. Webster's Dictionary defines "homosexual" as
someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. "Pedophile"
is defined as "an adult who is sexually attracted to young children."
The former definition refers to the gender of the desired sexual object,
while the latter refers to the age of the desired sexual object.
A male
"homosexual pedophile," then, is defined as someone who is generally
(but not exclusively, see below) sexually attracted to boys, while a female
"homosexual pedophile" is sexually attracted to girls.[25]
The term
"homosexual pedophile" was first used in the early 20th century by
the Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, who pioneered the
systematic study of sexual deviance. Krafft-Ebing described pedophiles as
heterosexually, homosexually or bisexually oriented.[26]
This division has been accepted by pedophiles themselves,[27]
and is well attested in the literature:
· A study of child molesters in
Behavior Research and Therapy found that "a homosexual and a
heterosexual subgroup can be delineated among these offenders."[28]
· The Journal of Sex and
Marital Therapy published a study on the same topic, which discussed
"the proportional prevalences of heterosexual and homosexual
pedophilia."[29] The study commented on a study that found that
"the percentage of the homosexual pedophiles would be 45.8." Even
adjusted downward for exhibitionists, "this would still indicate a much
higher percentage (34 percent) of homosexuals among pedophiles than among men
who prefer physically mature partners."[30]
· In a review of studies on
pedophilia, the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa concluded:
"The findings of previous studies report that pedophiles can be divided
into heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles according to their erotic
preference. . . . This was confirmed in this recent study."[31]
The article classified homosexual pedophilia into three types: the socially
inadequate homosexual pedophile, the intrusive homosexual pedophile, and the
undifferentiated homosexual pedophile.[32]
· A study of pedophiles in Behavior
Research and Therapy concluded: "The second, and perhaps the most
important observation we made, is that a homosexual and a heterosexual subgroup
can be delineated among these offenders. . . . Categorizing them in this way
revealed important differences in the pattern of their sexual
preferences."[33]
· The International Journal
of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology refers to homosexual
pedophiles as a "distinct group." The victims of homosexual
pedophiles "were more likely to be strangers, that they were more likely
to have engaged in paraphiliac behavior separate from that involved in the
offence, and that they were more likely to have past convictions for sexual
offences. . . . Other studies [showed a] greater risk of reoffending than those
who had offended against girls" and that the "recidivism rate for
male-victim offenders is approximately twice that for female-victim offenders."[34]
Homosexuals and Homosexual
Pedophiles Engage in a Wide Variety of Sexual Behavior that Belies Simplistic
Categories
Despite this
evidence, in their efforts to divorce homosexuality from pedophilia, homosexual
apologists insist on a rigid, narrow definition of the terms
"homosexual" and "pedophile" that permits no overlap of the
terms. They deny that homosexuals are attracted in inordinate numbers to boys.
They also claim that pedophiles cannot be classified as "homosexual"
if at any time they have had sexual relations with women.
However, such a
narrow definition does not do justice to the complex nature of pedophilia.
Researchers have long been aware that pedophiles exhibit a wide variety of
sexual attractions and behavior--often to draw attention away from their
primary lust for boys. A study on sex offenders in the International Journal
of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology notes that "the reason
child sexual abusers are successful at remaining undetected is because they do
not fit a stereotype."[35]
The data indicates
that both homosexuality and pedophilia are intersecting categories that admit
to a wide variety of sexual behavior.
Homosexual Males are Sexually Attracted to Underage Boys
· 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]
Conversely, Homosexual
Pedophiles are Often Attracted to Adult Males
· A study of sex offenders
against male children in Behavior Research and Therapy found that male
homosexual pedophiles are sexually attracted to "males of all ages."
Compared to non-offenders, the offenders showed "greater arousal" to
slides of nude males as old as twenty-four: "As a group, the child
molesters responsed [sp] with moderate sexual arousal . . . to the nude males
of all ages."[38]
· A study of Canadians
imprisoned for pedophilia in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence noted
that some of the adult male offenders engaged in homosexual acts with adult
males.[39]
· Many pedophiles, in fact,
consider themselves to be homosexual. A study of 229 convicted child molesters
in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that "eighty-six percent of
offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual."[40]
· Fr. John Harvey, founder and
director of Courage, a support ministry for Catholics who struggle with
same-sex attraction, explains that "the pedophile differs from the
ordinary homosexual in that the former admires boyishness in the object
of his affections, while the latter admires manliness."[41]
However, the categories are not completely separate:
While granting that the majority of homosexuals are
not aroused by young boys, the distinction between homosexuality and homosexual
pedophilia is not quite absolute. In some cases the interest oscillates between
young adolescents and adults, in others between boys and adolescents; in
exceptional cases a man may be interested in boys at one time and adults at
another.[42]
Many Pedophiles are Attracted to Women, Marry, and Have Children
Gay activists insist
that pedophilia has nothing to do with homosexuality because pedophiles are
only sexually interested in children, whereas homosexuals only have sexual
relations with adults. We have already seen that this stereotypical view is not
correct with regard to homosexuals. There is also abundant evidence
demonstrating that, while primarily interested in children, pedophiles
nevertheless exhibit a wide variety of sexual behaviors, including
relationships with women:
· A study in Child Abuse and
Neglect found that 48 percent of the offenders either were married or had
been married at some time.[43]
· The Journal of
Interpersonal Violence studied the sexual preferences of male pedophiles
who sexually abused children. When they compared the sexual response of the
pedophiles with the control group, they found, unexpectedly:
"Surprisingly, the two groups did not differ in their response to the nude
female stimuli."[44]
· A study in the Psychiatric
Journal of the University of Ottawa reported that "most of the
middle-aged pedophiles have had significant adult sexual activity."[45]
Fifty-eight percent of the pedophiles in one study had at least one child,
while other research indicated that "more than two-thirds of the married
pedophiles in their sample had children, with an average of two to three
children per subject."[46]
· A report by the Department of
Justice addressed the devious stratagems of pedophiles, who will go to great
lengths to conceal their true desires: "Preferential sex offenders may be
'pillars of the community' and are often described as 'nice guys.' They almost
always have a means of access to children (for example, through marriage, neighborhood,
or occupation.)"[47]
Thus, the evidence
shows that homosexual pedophiles cannot be narrowly defined as individuals who
are solely attracted to underage boys. In fact there is considerable overlap between
homosexuality and pedophilia.
PEDOPHILIA IN GAY CULTURE The Historical Connection between Pedophilia and the Gay Rights Movement
David Thorstad is a
homosexual activist and historian of the gay rights movement.[48]
He is a former president of New York's Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), a
prototype activist group founded in December 1969. The GAA at its inception
opposed age of consent laws, which prohibited adults from having sex with
children.[49] Thorstad is also a pedophile and founding member of
the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Thorstad argues that
there is a natural and undeniable connection between homosexuality and
pedophilia. He expresses bitterness that the gay rights movement has, in his
view, abandoned pedophilia. Thorstad writes: "Boy-lovers were involved in
the gay movement from the beginning, and their presence was tolerated. Gay
youth groups encouraged adults to attend their dances. . . . There was a mood
of tolerance, even joy at discovering the myriad of lifestyles within the gay
and lesbian subculture."[50]
The inaugural issue
of the Gay Community News in 1979 published a "Statement to the Gay
Liberation Movement on the Issue of Man/Boy Love," which challenged the
movement to return to a vision of sexual liberation. It argued that "the
ultimate goal of gay liberation is the achievement of sexual freedom for
all--not just equal rights for 'lesbian and gay men,' but also freedom of
sexual expression for young people and children."
In the early years
there was some reluctance to accept pedophilia, primarily among feminist and
lesbian activist groups. In March 1979 the Lesbian Feminist Liberation (LFL)
accusing "so-called Man/Boy Lovers" of "attempting to legitimize
sex between children and adults. . . . Feminists easily recognize this as the
latest attempt to make palatable the sexual exploitation of children." The
coalition went on record as opposing "the sexual abuse of children by
heterosexual or homosexual persons."[51]
Despite this
opposition, Thorstad claims that by 1985 homosexual pedophiles had won
acceptance within the gay movement. He cites Jim Kepner, then curator of the
International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles: "A point I've been
trying to make is that if we reject the boylovers in our midst today we'd
better stop waving the banner of the Ancient Greeks, of Michelangelo, Leonardo
da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Horatio Alger, and Shakespeare. We'd
better stop claiming them as part of our heritage unless we are broadening our
concept of what it means to be gay today."[52]
In 1985 NAMBLA was
admitted as a member in New York's council of Lesbian and Gay Organizations as
well as the International Gay Association--now the International Lesbian and
Gay Association (ILGA). In the mid-1990's ILGA's association with NAMBLA and
other pedophile groups cost the organization it's status as a Non-Governmental
Organization in the United Nations.
ILGA's renewed
attempt to gain admittance to the UN was rejected again in April 2002 because
the organization "did not document that it had purged pedophile groups
such as [NAMBLA]." The Washington Times reports that Ishtiag H.
Anrabi, Pakistani delegate to the UN Economic and Social Council, expressed
concern that ILGA was continuing to be secretive about ties with pedophile
groups: "For more than a year, the ILGA has refused to provide
documentation or allow review of its membership list to demonstrate that
pedophilia groups have been expelled."[53]
The late
"beat" poet Allen Ginsberg illustrates the seamless connection
between homosexuality and pedophilia. Many know Ginsberg as an illustrious
"out" homosexual poet: fewer are aware that he was also a pedophile.
Biographer
Raymond-Jean Frontain refers to Ginsberg's publications in both NAMBLA Bulletin
and NAMBLA Journal. He discusses how Ginsberg's biographers failed to
discuss his poems that contained pederastic themes:
Although both Shumacher and Barry Miles (Ginsberg's
initial biographer) frankly discuss Ginsberg's sexual politics, neither refers
to his involvement with the controversial North American Man/Boy Love
Association. . . . I reread Collected Poems and Ginsberg's two subsequent
collections, surprised by the pattern of references to anal intercourse and to
pederasty that emerged.[54]
Ginsberg was one of
the first of a growing number of homosexual writers who cater to the
fascination with pedophilia in the gay community. Mary Eberstadt, writing in the
Weekly Standard, documents how the taboo against sex with children
continues to erode--with the impetus coming from homosexual writers.[55]
Revealingly, the
examples she provides of pedophilia in current literature come from gay
fiction. Eberstadt cites the Village Voice, which states that "Gay
fiction is rich with idyllic accounts of 'intergenerational relationships,' as
such affairs are respectfully called these days."[56]
Other examples of pedophilia-themed gay fiction include:
· In the introduction of the
"mainstream" homosexual anthology Penguin Book on International
Gay Writing, David Leavitt notes matter-of-factly that "Another
'forbidden' topic from which European writers seem less likely to shrink is the
love of older men for young boys." Leavitt praises one book with a
pedophilic theme included in the anthology as a "coolly assured narrative
[which] compels the reader to imagine the world from a perspective he might
ordinarily condemn."[57]
· Several texts included in
another anthology, The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read, feature
scenes of man-boy sex. One such book is praised as "an operatic adventure
into the realms of love, personality, ambition and art . . . a pure joy to
read." The protagonist is "a pedophile's dream: the mind of a man in
the body of a boy."[58] Another novel which
includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence against boys is said to
"[tear] straight to the heart of one of the greatest sources,
community-wide, of 1990's gay angst: What to do with men who love boys?"[59]
· Yet another anthology of
homosexual fiction, A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, published
by Yale University Press, includes "a longish chapter on 'Boys and
Boyhood' which is a seemingly definitive account of pro-pedophile literary
works."[60] The author appears more concerned with the feelings
and emotions of the man than with his boy victim. He explores the question of
"whether or not you regard [having sex with boys] as a way of retreating
from life or, on the contrary, as a way of engaging with it at its most
honest and least corrupted level."[61]
· A significant percentage of
books that have appeared on the Gay Men's Press fiction bestseller list contain
pedophilia themes, including:
Some Boys: described as a "memoir of a lover of boys"
that "evokes the author's young friends across four decades."[62]
For a Lost Soldier: the story of a sexual
relationship between a soldier and an eleven-year-old boy, set during World War
II.[63]
A Good Start, Considering: yet another story about an
eleven-year-old boy (!) who suffers sexual abuse but is rescued by a teenager
who "offers him love and affection"[64]
Terre Haute: billed as "A poetic novel of sexual awakening
in the American Midwest, tracing an adolescent's journey from introspection to
perilous desire."
Shiva and Arun: the story of two Indian adolescents who
"discover early on the joys of sex."
Teardrops on My Drum: barefoot kids in 1920's
Liverpool search for "adventure, love and sex."
Recent years have
seen the appearance of publications that lend a scholarly veneer to the
fascination with pedophilia in the gay community. Such publications attempt to
make the case for "intergenerational intimacy." The nation's largest
gay publisher, Alyson Publications, which distributes Daddy's Roommate
and other homosexual books that promote homosexuality to children, publishes
books advocating man-boy sex, including:
· Paedophilia: The Radical
Case, which
contains detailed information on how to engage in sexual relations with young
boys.[65]
· The Age Taboo, another defense of
pedophiliawhich claims: "Boy-lovers . . . are not child molesters. The
child abusers are . . . parents who force their staid morality onto the young
people in their custody."[66]
The Journal of
Homosexuality is viewed as the premier "mainstream"
English-language publication of the gay movement. One prominent editor is John
DeCecco, a psychologist at San Francisco State University who also serves on
the editorial board of the Dutch pedophile journal Paidika. It is
therefore not surprising to see pedophilia promoted on its pages.
In 1990 the Journal
of Homosexuality published a series of essays on pedophilia that were
eventually published as Male Inter-Generational Intimacy:Historical,
Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives, edited by pedophile Edward
Brongersma. None of the essays offered any substantive criticism of pedophilia:
most blatantly promoted man-boy love as the natural right of homosexuals.
In 1999 Helmut
Graupner, wrote an article on pedophilia in the Journal of Homosexuality, in
which he claims: "Man/boy and woman/girl relations without doubt are
same-sex relations and they do constitute an aspect of gay and lesbian
life." Graupner argues that, as such, consensual sexual relations between
adult homosexuals and youths as young as fourteen qualifies as a "gay
rights issue."[67]
The fascination with
pedophilia continues to be a cause of concern even within the gay community.
Lesbian columnist Paula Martinac, writing in the homosexual newspaper Washington
Blade, states:
[S]ome gay men still maintain that an adult who has
same-sex relations with someone under the legal age of consent is on some level
doing the kid a favor by helping to bring him or her 'out.' It's not
pedophilia, this thinking goes--pedophilia refers only to little kids.
Instead, adult-youth sex is viewed as an important aspect of gay culture, with
a history dating back to 'Greek love' of ancient times. This romanticized
version of adult-youth sexual relations has been a staple of gay literature and
has made appearances, too, in gay-themed films.[68]
Martinac adds that
"When some gay men venerate adult-youth sex as affirming while
simultaneously declaring 'We're not pedophiles,' they send an inconsistent
message to society. . . . The lesbian and gay community will never be successful
in fighting the pedophile stereotype until we all stop condoning sex with young
people."[69]
VICTIM'S TURNED VICTIMIZERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF HOMOSEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
The steadfast denial
of the disturbing ties with pedophilia within the homosexual movement is no
purely academic matter. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the
homosexual-pedophile connection is the fact that men who sexually molest boys
all too often lead their victims into homosexuality and pedophilia. The
evidence indicates that a high percentage of homosexuals and pedophiles were
themselves sexually abused as children:
· The Archives of Sexual
Behavior reports: "One of the most salient findings of this study is
that 46 percent of homosexual men and 22 percent of homosexual women reported
having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to only 7
percent of heterosexual men and 1 percent of heterosexual women reporting
having been molested by a person of the same gender."[70]
· A study of 279
homosexual/bisexual men with AIDS and control patients discussed in the Journal
of the American Medical Association reported: "More than half of both
case and control patients reported a sexual act with a male by age 16 years,
approximately 20 percent by age 10 years."[71]
· Noted child sex abuse expert
David Finkelhor found that "boys victimized by older men were over four
times more likely to be currently engaged in homosexual activity than were
non-victims. The finding applied to nearly half the boys who had had such an
experience. . . . Further, the adolescents themselves often linked their
homosexuality to their sexual victimization experiences."[72]
· A study in the International
Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology found:"In the
case of childhood sexual experiences prior to the age of fourteen, 40 percent
(of the pedophile sample) reported that they had engaged 'very often' in sexual
activity with an adult, with 28 percent stating that this type of activity had
occurred 'sometimes'"[73]
· A National Institute of
Justice report states that "the odds that a childhood sexual abuse
victim will be arrested as an adult for any sex crime is 4.7 times higher than
for people . . . who experienced no victimization as children."[74]
· A Child Abuse and Neglect study
found that 59 percent of male child sex offenders had been "victim of
contact sexual abuse as a child."[75]
· The Journal of Child
Psychiatry noted that "there is a tendency among boy victims to
recapitulate their own victimization, only this time with themselves in the
role of perpetrator and someone else the victim."[76]
The circle of abuse
is the tragic legacy of the attempts by homosexuals to legitimize having sex
with boys. For too many boys it is already too late to protect them from those
who took advantage of their need for love and attention. All too many later
perpetrate the abuse by themselves engaging in the sexual abuse of boys. Only
by exposing the lies, insincere denials, and deceptions--including those
wrapped in scholastic garb--of those who prey sexually on children, can we hope
to build a wall of protection around the helpless children among us.
END NOTES
1. Dawn Fisher, "Adult
Sex Offenders: Who are They? Why and How Do They Do It?" in Tony Morrison,
et al., eds., Sexual Offending Against Children (London: Routledge,
1994), p. 11.
2. Kee MacFarlane, et al., Sexual
Abuse of Young Children: Evaluation and Treatment (New York: The Guilford
Press, 1986), p. 9.
3. John Briere, et al.,eds., The
APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage
Publications, 1996), pp. 52, 53.
4. Kurt Freund, et al.,
"Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," Journal of Sex
and Marital Therapy 10 (Fall 1984): 198; See also Freund, K, and Watson, R.
J., "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Paedophiles among Sex
Offenders against Children: an Exploratory Study," Journal of Sex and
Marital Therapy 18 (1992): 34.
5. Bill Watkins and Arnon
Bentovim, "The Sexual Abuse of Male Children and Adolescents: A Review of
Current Research," Journal of Child Psychiatry 33 (1992); in Byrgen
Finkelman, Sexual Abuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995), p. 300.
6. MacFarlane, p. 9.
7. Kurt Freund, et al.,
"Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," Journal of Sex
and Marital Therapy 10 (1984): 197. "The proportional prevalence of
offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children
was 36 percent." 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.
8. Watkins and Bentovim, p.
315.
9. Robert L. Johnson,
"Long-term Effects of Sexual Abuse in Boys," Medical Aspects of
Human Sexuality (September 1988): 38.
10. "Understanding and
Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation," (U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Justice Programs, 1997), p. 12.
11. Watkins and Bentovim, p.
302.
12. Dan Black, et al.,
"Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States:
Evidence from Available Systematic Data Sources," Demography 37
(May 2000): 141.
13. John O. G. Billy, et al.,
"The Sexual Behavior of Men in the United States," Family Planning
Perspectives 25 (March/April 1993): 58.
14. J. Gordon Muir,
"Homosexuals and the 10 percent Fallacy," Wall Street Journal (March
31, 1993).
15. Milton Diamond,
"Homosexuality and Bisexuality in Different Populations," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 22 (1993):300.
16. Ibid. Significantly, a
number of studies that were surveyed, and which skewed the overall percentages
of homosexuals upwards, included such vague definers as those having had
"any homosexual body contact." In contrast, one study that was
limited to self-identifying homosexuals found that less than 2 percent of the
male respondents considered their "sexual orientation" to be
homosexual, p. 293.
17. Freund,
"Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Erotic Age Preference," p. 107.
In this and previous studies, Freund claims that homosexuals are no more likely
than heterosexuals to be attracted to children (p. 115). However, Silverthorn,
et al., mentions the limitations of studies by Freund and others: "Studies
of homosexual male preferences are also limited. . . . The Freund et al.(1973)
study was possibly compromised because the homosexual men used in the study were
selected to be sexually attracted to adults, but not teenaged, males. The
Bailey et al. (1994) study was limited in that it did not present
participants with objective stimuli but simply asked participants to report
what age of sexual partner they preferred . . . the Jankowiak et al. (1992)
study . . . was limited in two ways: the homosexual male participants had a
limited age range of 'middle-aged professionals' and the stimuli presented to
participants were also of a limited age range ('university to middle-aged')."
Silverthorn attempted to correct these deficiencies, and in his study found
that homosexuals "preferred younger partners than those who preferred
female partners"--including those as young as fifteen. Zebulon A.
Silverthorne and Vernon L. Quinsey, "Sexual Partner Age Preferences of
Homosexual and Heterosexual Men and Women," Archives of Sexual Behavior
29 (February 2000): 67-76.
18. Ray Blanchard, et al.,
"Fraternal Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 29 (2000): 464.
19. Ibid., p. 471.
20. John M. W. Bradford, et
al., "The Heterogeneity/Homogeneity of Pedophilia," Psychiatric
Journal of the University of Ottawa 13 (1988): 225. Elsewhere the study
notes: "Researchers have variously estimated the incidence of homosexual
pedophilia between 19 percent and 33 percent of reported molestations," p.
218.
21. Freund, "Pedophilia
and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," p. 197.
22. Michele Elliott,
"Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What Offenders Tell Us," Child
Abuse and Neglect 19 (1995): 581.
23. The fact sheet discusses a
study by Carole Jenny, et al., which claims that only 2 of 269 child molesters
could be identified as gay or lesbian. Carole Jenny, et al., "Are Children
at Risk for Sexual Abuse by Homosexuals?" Pediatrics 94 (July
1994): 41-44. However, the Jenny study utilized an atypical research technique:
the reported child molesters themselves were not interviewed. Instead, the
researchers relied upon the subjective opinions of "informants" who
accompanied the child victim to the medical clinic. The qualifications for such
"informants" to determine the sexual behavior of the accused molester
were not established. However, once it is "determined" beforehand
that pedophiles who molest boys cannot be considered gay or homosexual if they
have had sexual relations with women, it is a foregone conclusion that few if
any of the pedophiles -who often have girlfriends, are married, and have
children - will be labeled homosexual. The Jenny study used this narrow profile
despite the fact that the study itself found that 22 percent of the
perpetrators were of the same sex as the victim. In these cases the molesters
clearly engaged in homosexual sexual molestation.
24. "Fact Sheet on Sexual
Orientation and Child Abuse," Human Rights Campaign (2001):available at: http://hrc.grassroots.com/family/soandchildabusefact/.
The fact sheet discusses a study by Carole Jenny, et al., which claims that
only 2 of 269 child molesters could be identified as gay or lesbian. Carole
Jenny, et al., "Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse by
Homosexuals?" pp. 41-44. However, the Jenny study utilized an atypical
research technique. The reported child molesters themselves were not
interviewed; instead, the researchers relied upon the subjective opinions of
"informants" who accompanied the child victim to the medical clinic.
25. Note that the
well-accepted definition of "child" as someone between infancy and
the age of maturation is employed here.
26. Bradford, p.218.
27. "[Pedophiles] can be
of either sex or any [sexual] orientation, i.e., homosexual, heterosexual or
bisexual." Paedophilia:Some Questions and Answers (London:
Paedophilic Informational Exchange, 1978); quoted in Seth L. Goldstein,
"Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation:Law Enforcement's Role," FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin 53 (January 1984): 23.
28. W. L. Marshall, et al.,
"Sexual Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," Behavior
Research and Therapy 26 (March 1988): 390.
29. Freund, "Pedophilia
and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," p.194.
30. Ibid., p. 197.
31. Bradford, et al., p. 217.
32. Ibid., pp. 218, 219.
33. Marshall, p. 390.
34. James Bickley and Anthony
R. Beech, "Classifying Child Abusers: Its Relevance to Theory and Clinical
Practice," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative
Criminology 45 (2001): 56.
35. Krisin A. Danni, et al.,
"An Analysis of Predicators of Child Sex Offender Types Using Presentence
Investigation Reports," International Journal of Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology 44 (2000): 491.
36. Zebulon A. Silverthorne
and Vernon L. Quinsey, "Sexual Partner Age Preferences of Homosexual and
Heterosexual Men and Women," p.73.
37. Karla Jay and Allen Young,
The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out about Sexual Experiences and
Lifestyles (New York: Summit Books, 1979), p. 275
38. Marshall, "Sexual
Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," p. 383.
39. W. L. Marshall, et al.,
"Early Onset and Deviant Sexuality in Child Molesters," Journal of
Interpersonal Violence 6 (1991): 323-336.
40. W. D. Erickson,
"Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters," Archives of Sexual
Behavior 17 (1988): 83.
41. John F. Harvey, O.S.F.S., The
Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care (San Francisco: Ignatius
Press:1987): 221
42. Ibid., p. 219.
43. Elliott, p. 581.
44. Marshall, "Sexual
Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," p. 383.
45. Bradford, p. 219.
46. Bradford, p. 224.
47. "Understanding and
Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation," p. 5.
48. Thorstad is co‑author,
with John Lauritsen, of The early homosexual rights movement (1864‑1935)
(New York: Times Change Press, 1974).
49. David Thorstad,
"May/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement" Journal of
Homosexuality 20 (1990): 252.
50. Ibid., p. 253.
51. Ibid., p. 258.
52. Ibid., p. 266.
53. George Archibald,
"U.N. Group Keeps Ban on Gay Lobby," Washington Times (May 1,
2002).
54. Raymond-Jean Frontain,
"The Works of Allen Ginsberg," Journal of Homosexuality 34
(1997): 109.
55. Mary Eberstadt,
"'Pedophilia Chic' Reconsidered" The Weekly Standard 6
(January 8, 2001).
56. Ibid., p. 21.
57. Ibid., p. 22.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., p. 23.
61. Ibid. Emphasis added by
Eberstadt.
62. Ibid., p. 23.
63. Ibid.
64. From the Gay Men's Press
website: www.gmppubs.co.uk/cgi-bin/web_store/web_store.cgi
65. Tom O'Carroll, Paedophilia:
The Radical Case (Boston:Alyson Publications, 1982).
66. Daniel Tsang, editor, The
Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power, and Consent (Boston: Alyson Publications
; London : Gay Men's Press, 1981), p. 144.
67. Helmut Graupner,
"Love Versus Abuse: Crossgenerational Sexual Relations of Minors: A Gay
Rights Issue?" Journal of Homosexuality 37 (1999): 23, 26.
68. Paula Martinac,
"Mixed Messages on Pedophilia Need to be Clarified, Unified," Washington
Blade (March 15, 2002).
69. Ibid.
70. Marie, E. Tomeo, et al.,
"Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual
and Homosexual Persons," Archives of Sexual Behavior 30 (2001):
539.
71. Harry W. Haverkos, et al.,
"The Initiation of Male Homosexual Behavior," The Journal of the
American Medical Association 262 (July 28, 1989): 501.
72. Watkins and Bentovim, p.
316.
73. Gary A. Sawle, Jon
Kear-Colwell, "Adult Attachment Style and Pedophilia: A Developmental
Perspective," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative
Criminology 45 (February 2001):6.
74. Cathy Spatz Widom,
"Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Later Criminal Consequences," Victims
of Childhood Sexual Abuse Series:NIJ Research in Brief, (March 1995): 6.
75. Elliott, p. 582.
76. Watkins, p. 319. Watkins
mentions several studies confirming that between 19 percent and 61 percent of
male sex abusers had previously been sexually abused themselves.
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"recidivism rate for
male-victim offenders is approximately twice that for female-victim
offenders."[34]
Homosexual
Males are Sexually Attracted to Underage Boys[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]
The evidence indicates that a high percentage of homosexuals and pedophiles were themselves sexually abused as children: A study of 279 homosexual/bisexual men with AIDS and control patients discussed in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported: "More than half of both case and control patients reported a sexual act with a male by age 16 years, approximately 20 percent by age 10 years."[71]
Only by exposing the
lies, insincere denials, and deceptions--including those wrapped in scholastic
garb--of those who prey sexually on children, can we hope to build a wall of
protection around the helpless children among us.
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