A biblical scholar when a word is unknown, looks for similar greek words to find a possible meaning. Boswell concludes Paul writing in Koine Greek, took a word from Attic Greek combined with a word from Old Testament Greek to mean the active male prostitute. These were common in the Hellenistic world in the time of Paul. They served as prostitutes for both men and women. It might be helpful to have a lexicon to explain what they understood a homosexual to be.
Child molesters are a subset of both homosexuals as well as heterosexuals.
The mistranslation owes in part to the already prevalent prejudice against gays present during preparation of this version of the Bible. Yet Paul was a Greek speaking Jew and a Roman citizen. In the culture in which he wrote the word malakoi, those who engaged in homosexual acts were not considered to be of questionable manhood. The Thebans even formed a legion of warriors composed entirely of gay couples. The group possessed an incredible esprit de corps and could boast of many victories.