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- From: kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.sex
- Subject: Re: pounding the "10%" figure into the ground: Nature, 12/3/92
- Message-ID: <105797@bu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:07:37 GMT
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- In article <13710@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
-
- >In article <BzMEHL.46t@exnet.co.uk>,
- s0xjg@exnet.co.uk (Xavier Gallagher) writes:
-
- >>Come on, be fair! 97% of reported child molestation is done by hetro
- >>men. The rest is made up of gay men and women.
-
- >FALSE. Depending on which study you read, at least 21% of molestation
- >is by exclusive homosexuals, or about 30% is done by homosexuals or
- >bisexuals.
-
- This is very misleading. Intentionally misleading, I'd have to say, since
- I called Mr Cramer on it repeatedly in ca.politics.
-
- Folks, what Mr Cramer doesn't tell you about these studies he quotes is
- twofold:
-
- 1. Presumably, the 21% figure he refers to is from Abel and Harlow,
- August 1987 _Redbook_. Abel says that 21% of the ***men who molest
- boys*** are exclusively homosexual. This flies directly in the
- face of Cramer's assertions that molesting boys is a facet of
- their homosexuality . Clinical psychologists regard pedophilia, at
- least in its fixated form, which comprises the vast majority of
- molestation of boys, as a narcissistic confusion, instead of an
- object-choice like adult homosexuality.
-
- 2. Mr Cramer refers to 30%, but he doesn't tell you that this is
- the percentage of VICTIMS of pedophiles who are male. NOT,
- repeat NOT, the percentage of pedophiles who molest boys. There
- is ample evidence, reflected neatly in Abel and Harlow, which
- shows that men who molest boys, fixated pedophiles, do so with
- about 12 times the number of victims as girl-molesters. Thus the
- 30% needs to be divided by roughly 12, all other things equal, to
- get the percentage of MOLESTERS who molest boys (about 3%, that is).
-
- Xavier appears to be right, Clayton. 97% of molesters who are men appear to be
- heterosexual. Of course, saying that homosexuals are "overrepresented" among
- molesters depends crucially on the overall incidence, which is unknown. I've
- seen studies showing incidence anywhere between 1% and 11%.
-
- Brian
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- Boston, MA 02215. True personal salvation is achieved by absolute faith in
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