Expert: homosexuality clearly a factor in new priest abuse data

[Pax_et_Bonum]

“My curiosity, and why I joined the discussion to begin with, is why that seems so important to people. Honestly, it comes across on these forums as if people would be disappointed if it was just pedophilia. It’s as if people really want this to be a homosexual problem at its core. As a devout Catholic who happens to have a homosexual orientation, I find that slightly irritating”

My reaction is to dishonesty.Heterosexual or homosexual predation upon the young both are mortal sins and really deserve a millstone and a pond.The media has presented this as pure pedophelia without being honest and describing it as homosexual predation in the main.Homosexuality has become a sacred cow and ANY honest criticism of it’s excesses in the minority sense of chicken hawkism has been hushed as if the mouthbreathers cannot distinguish between sufferers(I AM sorry if that offends you)of same sex attraction and child molesters.They are anathema amongst homosexuals as well I am sure.
My prayers are with you and I ask you to pray for me.

 

[meltzerboy]

It is a quest of endorsement with penalties in the works for those who disagree.The shield is becoming a sword and the aim is to punish and persecute Catholic and non-Catholic Christians,Jews,Muslims,the followers of the Dali Lama but especially the Catholic Church which is the only Institution that uncategorically calls a sin a sin.Homosexualists aim to indoctrinate the young that homosexuality is not an aberration practiced by one per cent of the population but quite normal when biologically it makes no sense what so ever…Just look at the curricula IMPOSED upon schools in Ontario.

Same sex genital sex is a mortal sin-WHY is that so difficult for putative Catholics to comprehend as is heterosexual sex between unmarried couples?That is Church teaching and if you disagree please find another Church.You’ll be happier.We’ll be MUCH happier.

The percentages of homosexuals (male and female) who have same-sex attraction and engage in homosexual behavior are difficult to ascertain. However, 1% of the population is on the low end according to survey research. First of all, even with a cross-section of the population as participants, it depends on which population (country) is studied. Second, the surveys differ according to the questions asked: some define homosexuality according to only one encounter, while others base the categorization on self-identification regardless of behavior, and still others on single or multiple relationships. Third, there is the issue of bisexuality, which seldom takes the form of an even attraction between the sexes. Thus some studies consider participants homosexual if they have a dominant attraction to the same sex, which is assessed by self-report, not too reliable a measure in such cases. Overall estimates of same-sex attraction, excluding actual behavior, are as high as 20%, and the early Kinsey studies were as high as 46%. Factoring in behavior, the estimates range from 6 to 10% of the general population. However, as mentioned, the validity and consistency of many of these studies are problematic.

 

[RobbyS]

Crossing that so called divide was pretty darn easy for me. Frankly, I was unaware that a divide existed until I read your post.

To mention another very good post in this thread, I think we need to teach that there is evil. Sexuality is not evil in itself. Sex within marraige and celebicy are both blessings from God. Homosexual behavior is evil, while the desires or temptations are not. I think that is the basis for a simple strategy to combat this evil thing that has riddled the priesthood and shaken the faithful.

Girls can be pretty scary to a 14 year old?

 

[RobbyS]

The percentages of homosexuals (male and female) who have same-sex attraction and engage in homosexual behavior are difficult to ascertain. However, 1% of the population is on the low end according to survey research. First of all, even with a cross-section of the population as participants, it depends on which population (country) is studied. Second, the surveys differ according to the questions asked: some define homosexuality according to only one encounter, while others base the categorization on self-identification regardless of behavior, and still others on single or multiple relationships. Third, there is the issue of bisexuality, which seldom takes the form of an even attraction between the sexes. Thus some studies consider participants homosexual if they have a dominant attraction to the same sex, which is assessed by self-report, not too reliable a measure in such cases. Overall estimates of same-sex attraction, excluding actual behavior, are as high as 20%, and the early Kinsey studies were as high as 46%. Factoring in behavior, the estimates range from 6 to 10% of the general population. However, as mentioned, the validity and consistency of many of these studies are problematic.

Don’t we now know how flawed the Kinsy studies were, because of the unrepresentative nature of his samples?

 

[meltzerboy]

Don’t we now know how flawed the Kinsy studies were, because of the unrepresentative nature of his samples?

Yes, prison populations are overrepresented and so there is a typical methodological issue of generalization to the overall population. Also, there is the problem of self-selection, as in most survey studies, in that those who volunteer as participants may already have a particular bias. I’m always wary of survey research for these reasons, as well as the definitional criteria and the content and wording of the questions. The researcher who uses this method has to be attentive to the pitfalls. Still, Kinsey’s findings are intriguing since they show that sexuality is much more complicated than what had been previously believed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The continuum notion of sexual attraction is one such finding: that is, the relatively simple division into heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual was found to be inadequate.

 

[EmperorNapoleon]

Are you ignoring the elephant in the living room? Where are the 50% female victims? Or 40%, or 30%?.

Where are the females in all boys schools and orphanages? Gender segregation would leave a hebephile with no alternative but boys whether they have a gender preference or not.

Are you ignoring the reported fact that homosexual behavior was tolerated in some seminaries of the 60s and 70s? Not heterosexual, but homosexual.

Which is rather immaterial unless we’re discussing regressed homosexuals or same-sex attracted hebephiles. In order for you and everyone else to understand the sex abuse scandal you must learn the scientific definitions of the terms we are discussing.

Are you trying to sterilize this by dissecting the demographic of the victims, when it is the actions of the perpetrators that must be analyzed?

I’m trying to help people put their hatred of homosexuals aside so they can see the facts, To scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse scandal is outrageous. Btw, the actions of perpetrators include the selection of their victims by age. The demographics are an important factor.

To me it is clearly homosexual. Homosexual behavior in the perpetrators’ youth, continuing into adult seminary is obviously adult homosexual behavior.

Psychologists often find that what people generally consider to be “obvious” or “common sense” is wrong. Homosexuals dont target children. By defintion; their preference is strictly for adults. A regressed homosexual might but the occurance of this, along with same-sex attracted hebephelia is so exceedingly rare that is simply impossible that all or even most of these abuses were committed by them.

 

[Kolbe300]

It seems also that the criminologists, sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists are likewise obscure on causal factors.

Which criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are you referring to? All of them, or just the ones who did this study? Who would you trust to do a study on a subject like this?

There is a category of “phile” that does these things…

Exactly.

…but it is a subset of a larger group of sexually disordered individuals. And that larger set is predominantly homosexual.

And a homosexual, by definition, isn’t a sexual predator. That larger group of people you refer to here have nothing to do with and certainly aren’t the cause of this scandal. If you want to believe homosexuality itself is the cause of the problem, so be it. But then you’d certainly agree that heterosexuality itself is the cause of the opposite sex predation (since pedophilia obviously isn’t). Sure, there is a category of “phile” for folks who do these things, but it is a subset of sexually ordered individuals.

My reaction is to dishonesty.Heterosexual or homosexual predation upon the young both are mortal sins and really deserve a millstone and a pond. The media has presented this as pure pedophelia without being honest and describing it as homosexual predation in the main.

I apologize, but I find it so difficult to believe that the reactions I see here are really based on dishonesty in the media. When has the media ever been honest? I think the media presents it as pedophilia because that’s exactly how most people view the predation of children. Most people’s intitial reaction isn’t to question the stage of puberty of victims or the sexuality of the predators. Not all people, but most of them. And I don’t see why the media would describe it as homosexual predation when that isn’t all it was, not by a long shot.

Homosexuality has become a sacred cow

And that’s exactly why I think people desperately want this problem to be a homosexual problem. To me, that’s how it looks. Simple as that.

My prayers are with you and I ask you to pray for me.

Thank you very much for your prayers and you can count on mine.

Peace!

 

[Robertanthony]

**I’m trying to help people put their hatred of homosexuals **aside so they can see the facts, To scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse scandal is outrageous. Btw, the actions of perpetrators include the selection of their victims by age. The demographics are an important factor.

You have got to be kidding. Are we going down this road again? By your own admission, you’re an agnostic, so I’ll kindly remind you that this is a Catholic forum and Catholics are taught that homosexuality is disordered but not a sin per se unless homosexual activity occurs. I don’t want to scapegoat homosexuals, but 81% of the abuses were homosexual acts (by definition at least, I hope you don’t entertain the frivolous thought of challenging that). And a homosexual could be defined as someone who engages in homosexual acts. Granted some might have been bisexuals or “gender-neutral” hebephile, but certainly not 99% of the 81%. I wouldn’t expect (and neither should you) to see a man who has molested 4-5 teenage boys to be in a heterosexual relationship, or if he were, he’d probably have sex with his female partner/wife twice a year and have sexual material on his hard drive that you wouldn’t expect from a truly heterosexual man.

Psychologists often find that what people generally consider to be “obvious” or “common sense” is wrong. Homosexuals dont target children. **By defintion; their preference is strictly for adults. **A regressed homosexual might but the occurance of this, along with same-sex attracted hebephelia is so exceedingly rare that is simply impossible that all or even most of these abuses were committed by them.

By definition? “Homo” simply means “same” as in attracted to people of the same gender/age, it says nothing about age. “Same-sex attracted hebephelia is so extremely rare” based on one study. Well-done studies are great as they can add to the pre-existing knowledge but don’t go making ex cathedra statements based on one study. It’s not a hobby of mine to go looking for studies on sexual perversion but I’m pretty sure there a few that you’ve conveniently put aside as they didn’t fit into your theories, so I suspect you might be cherry-picking in this case.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

At this point this DOES bear repeating:

"The data also shows that less than 5 percent of abuse involved prepubescent children, contravening rumor that the scandal largely manifested as acts of pedophilia. But homosexuality, according to Fitzgibbons, was clearly the primary sexual aberration driving the bulk of abuse.
lifesitenews.com/news/expert-homosexuality-clearly-a-factor-in-new-priest-abuse-data

Eighty-five per cent of all sexual abuse is upon post-pubescent boys and young men. Availability-altar boys. thing fort Scout Leaders,Karate Instructors,Big Brothers etc. Typical hebephile NOT pedophile behaviour. Men with these desires are known and generally despised in homosexual communities as Chicken Hawks. Google it.

Only a very small number of priests suffer from this affliction. Approximately 1.2 per cent,much lower in the general heterosexual population where the figure for PAEDOPHILIAC abuse is 4-5 per cent. We should not demonize those sufferers of samer-sex attraction as hebephiles-only a tiny but unfortunately visible minority are.ALL priests suffer from this scandal greviously. The USCCB and the CCCB came to the conclusion that homosexuality was not a factor in this. This psychiatrist points out the absurdity of that conclusion.The USCCB and the CCCB are hardly bona fide experts in this area and it may stem from wishful thinking and (sigh)the desire not to “offend”.Lately these Bishops seem to be busy stamping out fires-the sex scandals. 85 per cent of the victims are post pubescent males and it’s not homosexual in nature? Please."

thewarriorspost.blogspot.com/

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

This is QUITE germane and while a long read quite worth it:

Reliance of the
U.S.
Catholic Churchon the Discredited Field of “HumanSexuality” and on Sexology AdvisorsWhose “Scientific” and MoralFoundation Deviates Radically FromThat of the Church
by
Judith
A.
Reisman,
Ph.D.
The
Institute
for
Media
Education
6
2002
With Particular Focus onThree Key Sexuality "Reassessment"Institutions, Research, MethodologiesAnd Agents of Change
A
WORK
IN
PROGRESS
drjudithreisman.com/archives/2011/05/the_us_catholic.html

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Kinsey was a homosexual and a fraud.

The Kinsey Coverup

The Kinsey Coverup refers to the paid efforts of the mass media and the Kinsey Institute scientific establishment lobby to hide the facts of child sex abuse and fraud as the basis of Kinsey’s alleged “scientific data” on human sexuality. Spiking legislative investigations into these barbaric “scientific” crimes and Liam Neeson’s glossy portrayal of Kinsey in the 2004 Kinsey feature film, qualify as part of this 60 year plus cover-up.

Below you’ll find a brief history of various legal actions on this matter, links to actual sex crimes in the Kinsey Reports, The Kinsey Institute’s responses, articles about the Kinsey movie and other related documents. We hope this information will pique your interest. If so, we will add more information on this revolutionary change agent over time.

Also see: Establishment Science Kinsey Censorship: A Brief Time Line

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Brief History Of Legal Actions Threatened By And Filed Against The Kinsey Institute Related To Kinsey’s Fraudulent Research

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May 1983: Kinsey-co author, Dr. Wardell Pomeroy refuses to debate Dr. Reisman on CNN TV “Crossfire” and instead threatens to sue Dr. Reisman should she discusses Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). On Crossfire Dr. Reisman describes her findings of child sex atrocities conducted for Kinsey’s studies. She is not sued.

May 25, 1983: News columnist Patrick Buchanan reports Dr. Reisman’s child sex abuse charges in the press. The Kinsey Institute threatens Buchanan with a libel lawsuit. Buchanan responds with “Buchanan v Kinsey Round 2,” documenting all of Reisman’s charges. He is not sued.

drjudithreisman.com/the_coverup.html

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Why anyone would rely on ANY acientific "studies"by this late oervert and his diabolical organization is beyond me-he and it have been thoroughly discredited and should have been prosecuted for child abuse:

Kinsey minions continue child sex abuse

October 11, 2010
Exclusive: Judith Reisman exposes horrific ‘scientific’ studies of kids’ sexuality

By Judith Reisman
WorldNetDaily, October 10, 2010

While Obama and Hillary apologize for the American scientists who conducted vicious sex experiments on Guatemalans, the followers of the American scientist responsible for the rapes of thousands of infants and children continue his child abuse legacy untainted.

The Kinsey Institute just announced its collaboration with another agency of sex and “condom use,” using nearly 6,000 subjects. The new Kinsey study continues its old drum beat: “Sex” any way and wherever you get it.

My latest volume, “Sexual Sabotage,” documents the Kinsey team’s sexual crimes inflicted on up to 2,035 infants and children. After five decades denying its sexual abuse of babies and children for “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948) and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” (1953), in 1998 the Kinsey Institute again published both books without apology for these barbaric child sex crimes.

Riding high on their fame and fortune, in 2003 Kinsey pedagogues then distributed another sham child sex guidebook, “Sexual Development in Childhood.”

Now, this October, Kinsey’s Institute continues its tradition of lying about sex and children in yet another “sexual health survey.”

Funded by Trojan condoms’ “Church & Dwight Co.,” Kinsey’s minions claim condoms are comfortable and safe for child and adult use.

drjudithreisman.com/archives/2010/10/kinsey_minions.html

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Child atrocities in the Church
Posted: January 10, 2003
1:00 am Eastern

By Judith Reisman
© 2011 WND

Paul Likoudis’ fastidious, fully indexed, “Amchurch Comes Out: The U.S. Bishops, Pedophile Scandals and the Homosexual Agenda,” is written in pain and love by a deeply devoted Catholic journalist.

As news editor of The Wanderer, an orthodox Catholic newspaper, Likoudis spent 15 years researching, recording and writing about how sexual libertinism and “queer theology” taught in Catholic colleges and seminaries is “deconstructing” heterosexuality.

Bob Dornan, the fighting Irishman and former California congressman, minced no words in endorsing “Amchurch”:

Every American of good will must read this book. The U.S. bishops and their bureaucrats can no longer suppress the truth that the Catholic Church in this country has been penetrated by an aggressive homosexual network.

It is now obvious that the Church hierarchy has “circled the wagons” to protect a sexually corrupt “network” which tolerated and bred pedophiles (heterosexual boy and girl molesters) and pederasts (homosexual boy molesters). What is less obvious is that this pattern was laid down by the “human sexuality” field in 1948.

In 1948 Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s bogus “children as sexual from birth” data were dropped on the nation like a cultural atomic bomb. Called “the K-Bomb,” Kinsey’s claims in “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” shattered the national consensus of children’s asexual innocence – a consensus that in hindsight was arguably the greatest achievement of the Judeo-Christian moral universe.

Read more: Child atrocities in the Church wnd.com/news/article.asp?

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wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30419

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Where are the females in all boys schools and orphanages? Gender segregation would leave a hebephile with no alternative but boys whether they have a gender preference or not.

Which is rather immaterial unless we’re discussing regressed homosexuals or same-sex attracted hebephiles. In order for you and everyone else to understand the sex abuse scandal you must learn the scientific definitions of the terms we are discussing.

I’m trying to help people put their hatred of homosexuals aside so they can see the facts, To scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse scandal is outrageous. Btw, the actions of perpetrators include the selection of their victims by age. The demographics are an important factor.

Psychologists often find that what people generally consider to be “obvious” or “common sense” is wrong. Homosexuals dont target children. By defintion; their preference is strictly for adults. A regressed homosexual might but the occurance of this, along with same-sex attracted hebephelia is so exceedingly rare that is simply impossible that all or even most of these abuses were committed by them.

The Orphanage example was bogus in North America-we addressed it,exposed it for the lie it is and dismissed it .Kindly do not bring up discredited facts again or your posits will be summarily dismissed from consideration.

Exactly what are your credentials to make all of the unreferenced,unsupported and unlinked claims that you do?

“I’m trying to help people put their HATRED of homosexuals”.It is a mortal sin to hate anyone including homosexuals.It is quite Catholic to hate sin an example of which is genital sexual relations between unmarried people,because of the possibility of those people being damned.

You are agnostic so this may be so much booga-booga to you but I could not care less.God instituted the Sacrament of Marriage at the Wedding feast of Cana.The Church and Biological Logic do not recognize so-called same-sex marriage.Caesar might but that is NOT his balliwick.It is as much as sin for me to have sex with my girlfriend as it is for Adam and Steve to do the same.The unmarried are called to chastity.

You have come here with the preconceived notion that we hate homosexuals which is wrong and quite a prejudiced and in itself a hateful position to take.The Church teaches that same-sex relations are sinful but that same sex attracted sufferers who are chaste are not sinful at all; and do you really think that we will take your word over the 2000 year old Teaching Authority granted to the Church by her Founder,Jesus Christ?Not likely,my friend.

“BY DEFINITION; their preference is STRICTLY for adults”.Where do you get this pap?You can’t make unsupported assertions like that here and not be called on it.Are YOU the expert you’re quoting??

What about the North American Man Boy Love Association.Or it’s credo Men loving Boys Loving Men.I refuse to listen to anymore of your unsupported dreck in which you make the most ridiculous claims about the absolute innocence of homosexuality in this matter.

You really are starting to look foolish and quite desperate.We don’t need to be lectured by an agenda driven apologist for homosexuality who provides zero data for his outlandish claims.Kolbe has MUCH more credibility than you do and makes some very valid points-you are simply Tom Sawyer whitewashing Aunt Polly’s metaphorical fence,unable to convince onlookers what fun it is.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse

Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D.

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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.

orthodoxytoday.org/articles/DaileyHomosexualAbuse.php

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

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

orthodoxytoday.org/articles/DaileyHomosexualAbuse.php

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

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

orthodoxytoday.org/articles/DaileyHomosexualAbuse.php

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

Game.Set,and Match,E.N.

 

[Pax_et_Bonum]

The percentages of homosexuals (male and female) who have same-sex attraction and engage in homosexual behavior are difficult to ascertain. However, 1% of the population is on the low end according to survey research. First of all, even with a cross-section of the population as participants, it depends on which population (country) is studied. Second, the surveys differ according to the questions asked: some define homosexuality according to only one encounter, while others base the categorization on self-identification regardless of behavior, and still others on single or multiple relationships. Third, there is the issue of bisexuality, which seldom takes the form of an even attraction between the sexes. Thus some studies consider participants homosexual if they have a dominant attraction to the same sex, which is assessed by self-report, not too reliable a measure in such cases. Overall estimates of same-sex attraction, excluding actual behavior, are as high as 20%, and the early Kinsey studies were as high as 46%. Factoring in behavior, the estimates range from 6 to 10% of the general population. However, as mentioned, the validity and consistency of many of these studies are problematic.

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

I thought one per cent.I was wrong.

orthodoxytoday.org/articles/DaileyHomosexualAbuse.php

 

[po18guy]

Which criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are you referring to? All of them, or just the ones who did this study? Who would you trust to do a study on a subject like this?

In our culture, there appears to be no one who can provide meaningful insight into this monumental disaster. How about someone who does not mind criticism, or taking the risk of being wrong?