The Scientific Evidence Three kinds of scientific evidence point to the proportion of homoloveual molestation: 1) survey reports of molestation in the general population, 2) surveys of those caught and convicted of molestation, and 3) what homoloveuals themselves have reported. These three lines of evidence suggest that the 1%-to-3% of adults who practice homoloveuality account for between a fifth and a third of all child molestation. Reports of Molestation by the General Population In 1983, a probability survey of the loveual experiences of 4,340 adults in 5 U.S. cities found that about 3% of men and 7% of women reported loveual involvement with a man before the age of 13 (i.e., 30% was homoloveual). In 1983, a random survey of 3,132 adults in Los Angeles found that 3.8% of men and 6.8% of women said that they had been loveually buttaulted in childhood. Since 93% of the buttailants were male, and only 1% of girls had been buttaulted by females, about 35% of the buttaults were homoloveual. The Los Angeles Times surveyed 2,628 adults across the U.S. in 1985. 27% of the women and 16% of the men claimed to have been loveually molested. Since 7% of the molestations of girls and 93% of the molestations of boys were by adults of the same love, about 4 of every 10 molestations in this survey were homoloveual. In a random survey of British 15-to-19 yr olds, 35% of the boys and 9% of the girls claimed to have been approached for love by adult homoloveuals and 2% of the boys and 1% of the girls admitted to succumbing. In science, a review of the professional literature published in a refereed scientific journal is considered to be an accurate summary of the current state of knowledge. The latest such review was published in 1985. It concluded that homoloveual acts were involved in 25% to 40% of the cases of child molestation recorded in the scientific and forensic literature. Surveys of Those Convicted Dr's Freund and Heasman of the Clarke Insbreastute of Psychiatry in Toronto reviewed two sizeable studies and calculated that 34% and 32% of the offenders against children were homoloveual. In cases they had personally handled, homoloveuals accounted for 36% of their 457 persons. Dr. Adrian Copeland, a psychiatrist who works with loveual offenders at the Peters Insbreastute in Philadelphia, said that, from his experience, persons tend to be homoloveual and "40% to 45%" of child molesters have had "significant homoloveual experiences." Dr. C. H. McGaghy estimated that "homoloveual offenders probably consbreastute about half of molesters who work with children." Other studies are similar: � Of the approximately 100 child molesters in 1991 at the Mbuttachusetts Treatment Center for loveually Dangerous Persons, a third were heteroloveual, a third biloveual and a third homoloveual in orientation. � A state-wide survey of 161 Vermont adolescents who committed love offenses in 1984 found that 35 (22%) were homoloveual. � Of the 91 molesters of non-related children at Canada�s Kingston loveual Behaviour Clinic from 1978-1984, 38 (42%) engaged in homoloveuality. � Of 52 child molesters in Ottawa from 1983 to 1985, 31 (60%) were homoloveual. � In England for 1973, 802 persons (8 females) were convicted of indecent buttault on a male, and 3,006 (6 of them female) were convicted of indecent buttault on a female (i.e., 21% were homoloveual). 88% of male and about 70% of female victims were under age sixteen. Police deny US 'leak' creates riftBEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NYTr Police deny US 'leak' creates rift The NYPD stopped short of releasing the actual recipe for... Because of this pattern, Judge J. T. Rees concluded that "the male homoloveual naturally seeks the company of the male adolescent, or of the young male adult, in preference to that of the fully-grown man. In 1947 986 persons were convicted of homoloveual and unnatural offences. Of those, 257 were indictable offences involving 402 male victims.... The great majority of whom... were under the age of 16. Only 11%... were over 21." "The problem of male homoloveuality is in essence the problem of the corruption of youth by itself i.e., by other boys and by its elders. And thereby... the creation... of new addicts ready to corrupt a still further generation of young men and boys in the future." What Homoloveuals Admit The 1948 Kinsey survey found that 37% of the gays and 2% of the lesbians admitted to loveual relations with under-17-yr-olds, and 28% of the gays and 1% of the lesbians admitted to loveual relations with under-16-yr-olds while they themselves were aged 18 or older. In 1970 the Kinsey Insbreastute interviewed 565 white gays in San Francisco: 25% of them admitted to having had love with boys aged 16 or younger while they themselves were at least 21. In The Gay Report, 23% of the gays and 6% of the lesbians admitted to loveual interaction with youth less than 16 years of age. In France, 129 convicted gays (average age 34 years) said they had had loveual contact with a total of 11,007 boys (an average of 85 different boys per man). Abel et al reported similarly that men who molested girls outside their family had averaged 20 victims each; those who molested boys averaged 150 victims each. Summary About a third of the reports of molestation by the populace have involved homoloveuality. Likewise, between a fifth and a third of those who have been caught and-or convicted practiced homoloveuality. Finally, a fifth to a third of surveyed gays admitted to child molestation. All-in-all, a rather consistent story.
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