Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse - Part II

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A male “homosexual pedophile,” then, is defined as someone who is
generally (but not exclusively, see below) sexually attracted to
boys, while a female “homosexual pedophile” is sexually attracted to
girls.

The term “homosexual pedophile” was first used in the early 20th
century by the Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing,
who pioneered the systematic study of sexual deviance. Krafft-Ebing
described pedophiles as heterosexually, homosexually or bisexually
oriented. This division has been accepted by pedophiles themselves,
and is well attested in the literature:

· A study of child molesters in Behavior Research and Therapy found
that “a homosexual and a heterosexual subgroup can be delineated
among these offenders.”

· The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy published a study on the
same topic, which discussed “the proportional prevalences of
heterosexual and homosexual pedophilia.” The study commented on a
study that found that “the percentage of the homosexual pedophiles
would be 45.8.” Even adjusted downward for exhibitionists, “this
would still indicate a much higher percentage (34 percent) of
homosexuals among pedophiles than among men who prefer physically
mature partners.”



· The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative
Criminology refers to homosexual pedophiles as a “distinct group.”
The victims of homosexual pedophiles “were more likely to be
strangers, that they were more likely to have engaged in paraphiliac
behavior separate from that involved in the offence, and that they
were more likely to have past convictions for sexual offences. . . .
Other studies greater risk of reoffending than those who had
offended against girls” and that the “recidivism rate for male-
victim offenders is approximately twice that for female-victim
offenders.”

Homosexuals and Homosexual Pedophiles Engage in a Wide Variety of
Sexual Behavior that Belies Simplistic Categories
Despite this evidence, in their efforts to divorce homosexuality
from pedophilia, homosexual apologists insist on a rigid, narrow
definition of the terms “homosexual” and “pedophile” that permits no
overlap of the terms. They deny that homosexuals are attracted in
inordinate numbers to boys. They also claim that pedophiles cannot
be classified as “homosexual” if at any time they have had sexual
relations with women.

However, such a narrow definition does not do justice to the complex
nature of pedophilia. Researchers have long been aware that
pedophiles exhibit a wide variety of sexual attractions and
behavior–often to draw attention away from their primary lust for
boys. A study on sex offenders in the International Journal of
Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology notes that “the reason
child sexual abusers are successful at remaining undetected is
because they do not fit a stereotype.”

The data indicates that both homosexuality and pedophilia are
intersecting categories that admit to a wide variety of sexual
behavior:

Homosexual Males are Sexually Attracted to Underage Boys
· A study in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that homosexual men
are attracted to young males. The study compared the sexual age
preferences of heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men,
and lesbians. The results showed that, in marked contrast to the
other three categories, “all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men
preferred the youngest two male age categories,” which included
males as young as age fifteen.

· In The Gay Report, by homosexual researchers Karla Jay and Allen
Young, the authors report data showing that 73 percent of
homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys sixteen to
nineteen years of age or younger.”

Conversely, Homosexual Pedophiles are Often Attracted to Adult Males

· A study of Canadians imprisoned for pedophilia in the Journal of
Interpersonal Violence noted that some of the adult male offenders
engaged in homosexual acts with adult males.

· Many pedophiles, in fact, consider themselves to be homosexual. A
study of 229 convicted child molesters in Archives of Sexual
Behavior found that “eighty-six percent of offenders against males
described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.”

· Fr. John Harvey, founder and director of Courage, a support
ministry for Catholics who struggle with same-sex attraction,
explains that “the pedophile differs from the ordinary homosexual in
that the former admires boyishness in the object of his affections,
while the latter admires manliness.” However, the categories are not
completely separate:

While granting that the majority of homosexuals are not aroused by
young boys, the distinction between homosexuality and homosexual
pedophilia is not quite absolute. In some cases the interest
oscillates between young adolescents and adults, in others between
boys and adolescents; in exceptional cases a man may be interested
in boys at one time and adults at another.
Many Pedophiles are Attracted to Women, Marry, and Have Children
Gay activists insist that pedophilia has nothing to do with
homosexuality because pedophiles are only sexually interested in
children, whereas homosexuals only have sexual relations with
adults. We have already seen that this stereotypical view is not
correct with regard to homosexuals. There is also abundant evidence
demonstrating that, while primarily interested in children,
pedophiles nevertheless exhibit a wide variety of sexual behaviors,
including relationships with women:

· A study in Child Abuse and Neglect found that 48 percent of the
offenders either were married or had been married at some time.


· A study in the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa
reported that “most of the middle-aged pedophiles have had
significant adult sexual activity.” Fifty-eight percent of the
pedophiles in one study had at least one child, while other research
indicated that “more than two-thirds of the married pedophiles in
their sample had children, with an average of two to three children
per subject.”


Thus, the evidence shows that homosexual pedophiles cannot be
narrowly defined as individuals who are solely attracted to underage
boys. In fact there is considerable overlap between homosexuality
and pedophilia.

PEDOPHILIA IN GAY CULTURE The Historical Connection between
Pedophilia and the Gay Rights Movement
David Thorstad is a homosexual activist and historian of the gay
rights movement. 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. Thorstad is
also a pedophile and founding member of the North American Man Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA).


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.”


In 1985 NAMBLA was admitted as a member in New York’s council of
Lesbian and Gay Organizations as well as the International Gay
Association–now the International Lesbian and Gay Association
(ILGA). In the mid-1990’s ILGA’s association with NAMBLA and other
pedophile groups cost the organization it’s status as a Non-
Governmental Organization in the United Nations.


Pedophile Themes Abound in Gay Literature

Biographer Raymond-Jean Frontain refers to Ginsberg’s publications
in both NAMBLA Bulletin and NAMBLA Journal. He discusses how
Ginsberg’s biographers failed to discuss his poems that contained
pederastic themes:

Although both Shumacher and Barry Miles (Ginsberg’s initial
biographer) frankly discuss Ginsberg’s sexual politics, neither
refers to his involvement with the controversial North American
Man/Boy Love Association. . . . I reread Collected Poems and
Ginsberg’s two subsequent collections, surprised by the pattern of
references to anal intercourse and to pederasty that emerged.
Ginsberg was one of the first of a growing number of homosexual
writers who cater to the fascination with pedophilia in the gay
community. Mary Eberstadt, writing in the Weekly Standard, documents
how the taboo against sex with children continues to erode–with the
impetus coming from homosexual writers.

Revealingly, the examples she provides of pedophilia in current
literature come from gay fiction. Eberstadt cites the Village Voice,
which states that “Gay fiction is rich with idyllic accounts of
‘intergenerational relationships,’ as such affairs are respectfully
called these days.” Other examples of pedophilia-themed gay fiction
include:

· In the introduction of the “mainstream” homosexual anthology
Penguin Book on International Gay Writing, David Leavitt notes
matter-of-factly that “Another ‘forbidden’ topic from which European
writers seem less likely to shrink is the love of older men for
young boys.” Leavitt praises one book with a pedophilic theme
included in the anthology as a “coolly assured narrative compels the
reader to imagine the world from a perspective he might ordinarily
condemn.”



· A significant percentage of books that have appeared on the Gay
Men’s Press fiction bestseller list contain pedophilia themes,
including:

Pro-pedophilia Publications
Recent years have seen the appearance of publications that lend a
scholarly veneer to the fascination with pedophilia in the gay
community. Such publications attempt to make the case for
“intergenerational intimacy.” The nation’s largest gay publisher,
Alyson Publications, which distributes Daddy’s Roommate and other
homosexual books that promote homosexuality to children, publishes
books advocating man-boy sex, including: