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Being gay is an extremely poor predictor of being a pedophile.

by spywaregorilla 4y ago

slackdog 4y ago
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MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
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- ceejayoz 4y ago
  Cite some reputable sources. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8008535/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8008535/ > Abuse was ruled out in 35 cases. Seventy-four children were allegedly abused by other children and teenagers less than 18 years old. In 9 cases, an offender could not be identified. In the remaining 269 cases, two offenders were identified as being gay or lesbian. In 82% of cases (222/269), the alleged offender was a heterosexual partner of a close relative of the child. Using the data from our study, the 95% confidence limits, of the risk children would identify recognizably homosexual adults as the potential abuser, are from 0% to 3.1%. These limits are within current estimates of the prevalence of homosexuality in the general community. Convictions are a bit of a different story. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-35375-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-35375-001 > Using logit regression, it was found that homosexual abusers were 6.79 times more likely to be imprisoned than heterosexual abusers after adjusting for the combined effects of crime seriousness, prior record, and acceptance/denial of full responsibility for their actions. edit: Your Reddit link demonstrates gay children are more likely to be victims, not perpetrators. LifeIssues.net is... pretty clearly biased.
  - PuppyTailWags 4y ago
    Unfortunately your study is notably missing a category where abusing children is legal: child marriage. It's still legal to marry children in many states. [edited for clarity: I'm agreeing with the poster I'm responding to in that most child sexual abuse occurs at the hands of hetereosexual abusers, to the point where it's normalized through legal child marriage, which is almost entirely heterosexual, and aren't usually considered in studies on child sexual abuse.]
    - ceejayoz 4y ago
      I'd fully support a ban on child marriages, but I'm not able to find anything indicating same-sex child marriages are unusually prevalent. Where in the study are you seeing they ruled out underage marriages from the cohort?
      - PuppyTailWags 4y ago
        Sorry, I'm saying I agree with you: hetereosexual abuse of children is way more common than homosexual abuse, to the point where marrying children is legal and is almost entirely heterosexual. I'm saying unfortunately this kind of child sexual predation is rarely counted as part of the studies because of how normalized it is.
        ceejayoz 4y ago
        Ah, we agree in that case.
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- calderarrow 4y ago
  The links referenced in that post are broken, but I would be interested in seeing the data on this.

Being gay is an extremely poor predictor of being a pedophile.

slackdog 4y ago

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ceejayoz 4y ago
Cite some reputable sources. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8008535/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8008535/ > Abuse was ruled out in 35 cases. Seventy-four children were allegedly abused by other children and teenagers less than 18 years old. In 9 cases, an offender could not be identified. In the remaining 269 cases, two offenders were identified as being gay or lesbian. In 82% of cases (222/269), the alleged offender was a heterosexual partner of a close relative of the child. Using the data from our study, the 95% confidence limits, of the risk children would identify recognizably homosexual adults as the potential abuser, are from 0% to 3.1%. These limits are within current estimates of the prevalence of homosexuality in the general community. Convictions are a bit of a different story. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-35375-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-35375-001 > Using logit regression, it was found that homosexual abusers were 6.79 times more likely to be imprisoned than heterosexual abusers after adjusting for the combined effects of crime seriousness, prior record, and acceptance/denial of full responsibility for their actions. edit: Your Reddit link demonstrates gay children are more likely to be victims, not perpetrators. LifeIssues.net is... pretty clearly biased.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago
  Unfortunately your study is notably missing a category where abusing children is legal: child marriage. It's still legal to marry children in many states. [edited for clarity: I'm agreeing with the poster I'm responding to in that most child sexual abuse occurs at the hands of hetereosexual abusers, to the point where it's normalized through legal child marriage, which is almost entirely heterosexual, and aren't usually considered in studies on child sexual abuse.]
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    I'd fully support a ban on child marriages, but I'm not able to find anything indicating same-sex child marriages are unusually prevalent. Where in the study are you seeing they ruled out underage marriages from the cohort?
    - PuppyTailWags 4y ago
      Sorry, I'm saying I agree with you: hetereosexual abuse of children is way more common than homosexual abuse, to the point where marrying children is legal and is almost entirely heterosexual. I'm saying unfortunately this kind of child sexual predation is rarely counted as part of the studies because of how normalized it is.
      - ceejayoz 4y ago
        Ah, we agree in that case.
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calderarrow 4y ago
The links referenced in that post are broken, but I would be interested in seeing the data on this.