Our dear liberal friend, Mister E has stopped merely responding to what I say but trying to predict what I must be thinking:
I can only imagine that in his uneducated mind he’s making the connection to Foley being gay and child molestation.
Well, my mind is fine, thanks. Of course, Mister E does provide me an education in explaining that pedophilia and homosexuality have no link as he cites that greatest possible source, "a random blogger" More accurate it’s a random commenter on a random blog without any citation.
Family Research Council has research which demostrates a likely correlation:
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).
From this and the fact that Homosexuals make up around 3% of the population we can conclude 3% of the Population is accounting for 33% of the Pedophilia.
Does this mean every homosexual is a pedophile? Certaintly not. What it suggests is there’s a higher incidence of it than in the straight community.
I certainly needn’t refer to NAMBLA to find an example of support for pedophilia. In Great Britain, thanks to the efforts of homosexual activists and the Labour Party, what Mr. Foley did would be perfectly legal as the age of consent was lowered to 16.
Mr. E’s little known commenters allege there’s no such thing as straight or gay pedophilia and that’s really utter nonsense. If a male pedophile goes after girls, he’s a hetrosexual pedophile. If he goes after boys, he’s a homosexual pedophile. If he goes after both, he’s a bi-sexual pedophile. The basis for Mister E’s claim is fallacious and what else is new and their exists a greater propensity towards pedophilia among homosexuals than there is among hetrosexuals.
No one is saying all homosexuals are pedophiles, but facts though inconvenient do speak for themselves.
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Good question, the best information I found is here regarding female pedophiles and it estmates the number to be at 10%. Dr. Ron Holmes notes:
Almost always is a hard figure to use, so let’s say 80-20%. We’re estimating here because we’re dealing with a dark figure.
So, remember that 70% of Sexual assault victims are girls, 30% are boys, so let’s take away 2% of boys and 8% of girls. That leaves us:
62% girls
28% boys
So that 28% of Boys is being molested by Homosexuals or Bi-Sexuals.
Now, the 10% myth came from Kinsey and was abandonned and Homosexual groups have embraced a study from the 1990s showing 2.8%, 1.4% of women identified themselves as homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual.
2.0% of men identify themselves as homosexual and 0.9% of women as Lesbian. Homosexual men make up 0.70% of the Population and Lesbians make up 0.32% of the population. Following their math, BiSexual men make up 0.28% of the Population, and Bisexual women make up 0.17% of the Population. There’s some imperfection in the math due to rounding we end up with 1.47. So, let’s go ahead and simplify it for the purpose of this excercise and round the total of Gay/BiSexual Men as a percentage of US population up to 1% and Lesbian/BiSexual Women up to 0.5%
Now having done that we have to do some clarifications because the percentage of US Population is misleading, as those who are under 18 in most cases really can’t be pedophiles, so let’s go ahead and take out of consideration the 25% of Americans under age 18.. Doing this will augment the number of homosexuals by a third. So thus of the Adult population, 1.33% of Americans are Gay/Bi-Sexual men and .67% are Lesbian/Bi-Sexual women.
So let’s get back to our numbers. Homosexuals/Bi-Sexual men as 1.33% of Adults nationwide account for 28% of the Pedophilia.
Let’s break this down even further, assuming men make up 48.5% of the population and women make up 51.5%:
Straight men=47.17% of the adult population-62% of the Pedophiles
Homosexuals/Bi-Sexual Men=1.33% of adult population, 28% of the Pedophiles
Straight Women=50.83% of the adult population=2% of the Pedophiles
Lesbians/Bi-Sexuals=0.67% of the Population, 8% of the Pedophiles.
So if you created a statistic for this where you took a population’s percentage of pedophiles and divided it by the percentage of the population, you’d arrive at a Pedophile ratio and here’s what we come up with:
Straight Men=1.31
Homosexual/Bi-Sexual=21.05
Straight Women=0.04
Lesbian/Bi-Sexual=11.94
Of course these numbers could be fine tuned up or down a little and the great challenge we have to remember when dealing with the issue of sexual assault is much of this lies in the dark figure of crime. Still, I think from statistics out there, there’s enough evidence that homosexuals do have a greater propensity towards this for whatever than Hetrosexuals as a proportion of the population.
Again, this does not tell us that all homosexuals/Lesbians are pedophiles.
Regarding the stories of female pedophilia in the news, I’ll agree those have been in the news, but do you know why something makes the news? Rarity. There are hundreds of cases of pedophiles who do not make it out of the local news network. A female pedophile makes nation news because it’s a rare occurance. How rare? Go to the national sex offender registry and find the number of males v. the number of female offenders in your area. In a mile radius of my house there were about 20 total and only one was a woman.