Re: Homosexuality vs pedoephilia
Reality Check/
You are, as usual, completely wrong.
According to the American (USA) National Committee to Prevent
Child Abuse, in 1997, the most recent year for which
reliable statistics are available,
neglect represented 54% of confirmed cases of child abuse,
physical abuse 22%, sexual abuse 8%, emotional maltreatment 4%,
and other forms of maltreatment 12%.
The term ‘sexual abuse’ covers all forms of sexual contact
including male on male, male on female, female on female and
female on male and is calculated in such a way that Statutory
Rape, i.e. situations in which one of the parties
involved was under the legal age of consent but may, actually,
have been mature enough to give informed consent – that is to say
situations in which no force, emotional or physical, was actually
employed by either party - is included in the statistics.
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention the vast majority of incidents of child sex abuse
(97.3%) occur within the child’s home and is perpetrated upon
these children by a close family member. Only 4% of such attacks
are gay or lesbian – 96% are heterosexual. A child is far more
likely, enormously more likely, to be attacked in a sexual manner
in his or her own home by a close heterosexual family member than
outside, or inside, the home by a gay or lesbian person.
In Europe the prevalence of heterosexual sexual abuse of children
by members of their own families is found to be even higher than
in the USA – some 98.3% of abuse is heterosexual with only some
1.7% being gay or lesbian sexual abuse – and this despite Europe
having a much higher proportion of out and visible gays and
lesbians in the population than can be found in the USA with
somewhere between 7% and 11% of the general population
identifying publicly as gay or lesbian as opposed to the USA’s
figure of 3% to 5%.
For references see:
Child sexual abuse by David P. H. Jones, Paul
Ramchandani
and:
Children and young people who sexually abuse others by
Marcus Erooga, Helen C. Masson, 1999.
The child protection handbook by Kate Wilson, Adrian L.
James, 2002.
The APSAC handbook on child maltreatment by John E. B.
Myers, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children,
2002.
The overwhelming bulk of the evidence emerging from the developed
world, and the third world, for that matter, is that sexual
attacks on children are disproportionably perpetrated by
heterosexual people: by people such as you claim to be –
so-called normal, heterosexual people. Gay and lesbian people are
not represented in the statistics in the numbers and percentages
that one might expect to find if the propensity to sexually abuse
of young children were naturally distributed over the entire
population of the planet. Instead, it seems that heterosexuals
such as you are far more likely to sexually abuse young children
than gay and lesbian people are, and that you are far more likely
to abuse them in this way when they are close family members.
Now, that is very interesting. What is it about your
heterosexuality that makes you, not necessarily specifically
'you' but others of your sexual orientation – heterosexuals that
is – many times more likely to sexually abuse children than gay
and lesbian people are, and, what is more, to abuse family trust
and the supposedly safe family home that all of you make such a
noise about. Equally as interesting to my mind is precisely why
you, and others like you, seek to project that type of behaviour
onto us gay and lesbians (your hate group of choice) when the
evidence simply does not support your wild assertions,
deliberately evil mis-directions or the attempted propagation of
your projected guilt onto us gays and lesbians on this issue.
Rather, as the facts support, it is your sexual orientation that
does the damage, not ours!
As far as I can make out you are indulging in classic
‘projection’, ‘mis-direction’ and ‘displacement’ activity in
order to justify your faux position of superiority on this issue.
The fact remains – justified by survey and the statistics of
Court, and Police, Records, and such facts backed up by the
findings of Government Child Welfare Departments, and other
reputable organisations, on both sides of the Atlantic and
throughout the world – that heterosexuals are far more likely, in
a statistically disproportionate way, to be the sexual abusers of
young children than gay or lesbian people are. Pluck the beam
from your own eye before addressing the mote in ours.
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Comment by John M.J. — August 19, 2009 @
4:30
