From: kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Why "Child Abuse Causes Homosexuality" Really Doesn't Fly
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:38:09 GMT
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Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Oct27.160625.8437@netcom.com>
phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:

>It is very likely that the [man who molests boys] is a homosexual. In
>such areas of deviance, it is very common for the primary sexual orientation
>to be buried and a sexual orientation that is not the preference to be
>displayed.

This is not the opinion of experts.

_Out of Harm's Way: Readings on Child Sexual Abuse, Its Prevention and
 Treatment_, Dawn C. Haden, editor. 1986.

specifically, pp 141-154: "The Child Molester: Clinical Observations", by
Groth, Hobson, and Gray...

p142:	"...men who sexually molest boys are misidentified as homosexuals
	 when they are in fact pedophiles."

p144	"TABLE 1. TYPOLOGY OF CHILD MOLESTERS
	 
	 FIXATED TYPE
	 1. Primary sexual orientation is to children
	 [...]

p145	[Case study:] "Scott is a 20 year old [fixated pedophile who] never
	experienced being attracted to men or women."

p146	"In general, fixated child molesters are drawn to children sexually
	in that they identify with the child and appear im some ways to want
	to remain children themselves. It is for this reason that the trend
	for fixated pedophiles is to target boys as victims. This does not
	represent a homosexual object-choice, psychologically, but a
	narcissistic one."

I looked back at the Abel study publicized in the August 1987 _Redbook_
in a story cowritten with Abel's wife Nora Harlow. Abel mentions that
not all molestations involve sexual assault, but of the ones that do,
63% of the victims are boys. Men in his sample who assaulted boys had
on average 282 victims, compared to 23 for men who assaulted girls. Abel
identified 21% of the men who assaulted boys as exclusively homosexual.

Unfortunately, Abel didn't say what percentage of molestations involve
sexual assault. I had to consult other sources to find that.

There is a good summary in _The Sexual Abuse of Children_, by Jeffrey J.
Haugaard and W. Dickon Reppucci, 1988. Haugaard was then a doctoral
candidate in psychology at UVa, and Reppucci a professor of psychology
at UVa.

On p42 and p50 they indicate that although studies have shown a wide
variation in the percentage of total molestations that involve sexual
assault, the molest likely percentage is around 50%.

Abel's 403 molesters committed 67,000 crimes. If 50% involved sexual
assault, then 33,500 times 63%, or 21100, involved sexually assaulted
boys. The molesters of these boys had on average 282 victims, which
means there were 21100/282, or 75 fixated molesters. Abel says 21% of
these men were exclusively homosexual. So that means 16 men out of the
403 molesters were exclusively homosexual.

16/403 = 4%

Brian
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