Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse
Issue No.: 247
by: Timothy J. Dailey, Ph. D.
The circle
of abuse is the tragic legacy of the attempts by homosexuals to legitimize
having sex with boys. For too many boys it is already too late to protect them
from those who took advantage of their need for love and attention. All too
many later perpetrate the abuse by themselves engaging in the sexual abuse of
boys. Only by exposing the lies, insincere denials, and deceptions -- including
those wrapped in scholastic garb -- of those who prey sexually on children, can
we hope to build a wall of protection around the helpless children among us.
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.
· Pedophile
themes abound in homosexual literary culture: Gay fiction as well as
serious academic treatises promote "intergenerational intimacy."
MALE HOMOSEXUALS
COMMIT A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF CHILD SEX ABUSE CASES
Homosexual apologists admit that some homosexuals sexually molest children,
but they deny that homosexuals are more likely to commit such offenses. After
all, they argue, the majority of child molestation cases are heterosexual in
nature. While this is correct in terms of absolute numbers, this argument
ignores the fact that homosexuals comprise only a very small percentage of the
population.
The evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly
disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To
demonstrate this it is necessary to connect several statistics related to the
problem of child sex abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to
one-third or more of child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less
than three percent of the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage
of the population (homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of
child sexual molestation.
Men Account for
Almost All Sexual Abuse of Children Cases
· An essay on
adult sex offenders in the book Sexual Offending Against Children reported:"It
is widely believed that the vast majority of sexual abuse is perpetrated by
males and that female sex offenders only account for a tiny proportion of
offences. Indeed, with 3,000 adult male sex offenders in prison in England and
Wales at any one time, the corresponding figure for female sex offenders is 12!"[1]
· Kee
MacFarlane, et al., writing in Sexual Abuse of Young Children: Evaluation
and Treatment report:"The large majority of sexual perpetrators appear
to be males (Herman and Hirschman, 1981; Lindholm and Willey, 1983)."[2]
· A
report by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children states:
"In both clinical and non-clinical samples, the vast majority of offenders
are male."[3]
· A
study in the Journal of Sex Research states that "pedophilia does
not exist, or is extremely rare, in women."[4]
A Significant
Percentage of Child Sexual Abuse Victims are Boys
· According to
the Journal of Child Psychiatry: "It was commonly believed fifteen
years ago that girls were abused in excess of boys in a ratio of about 9 to 1,
but contemporary studies now indicate that the ratio of girls to boys abused
has narrowed remarkably. . . . The majority of community studies suggest a . .
. ratio . . . in the order of 2 to 4 girls to 1 boy."[5]
Another study found that "some authors now believe that boys may be
sexually abused as commonly as girls (Groth, 1978; O'Brien, 1980)."[6]
· A
study of 457 male sex offenders against children in Journal of Sex and
Marital Therapy found that "approximately one-third of these sexual
offenders directed their sexual activity against males."[7]
Sexual Abuse of Boys
is Underreported
The actual percentage of child sexual abuse victims who are boys very likely
exceeds the above estimates. Many researchers echo the view of the Journal
of Child Psychiatry study, which refers to the "under-reporting of the
incidence and prevalence of sexual abuse in boys."[8]
· Dr.
Robert Johnson, in Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, reports:
"The vast majority of cases of male sexual molestation is not reported. As
a result, these young men keep both the incidents and their feelings to
themselves."[9]
· The
Department of Justice report on child sexual exploitation explains why the
percentage of boy victims is underestimated: "Adolescent boy victims are
highly likely to deny certain types of sexual activity. . . . They are
embarrassed and ashamed of their behavior and rightfully believe that society will
not understand their victimization. . . . No matter what the investigator does,
most adolescent boys will deny they were victims."[10]
· The Journal
of Child Psychiatry adds: "Boys are usually encultured into an ethos
where self-reliance, independence and sexual prowess are valued, while showing
hurt or homosexuality are denigrated. . . . This may lead to powerful
repression or deletion of the experience, with failure to report."[11]
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]
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]
The stark imbalance between homosexual and heterosexual child
molestationswas confirmed in the Archives of Sexual Behavior study
itself, which divided 260 pedophile participants into three groups: "152
heterosexual pedophiles (men with offenses or self-reported attractions
involving girls only), 43 bisexual pedophiles (boys and girls), and 65
homosexual pedophiles (boys only)."[19]
In other words, 25 percent of the offenders were homosexual pedophiles--or 41
percent if those who molest girls as well as boys are included.
Other studies report an unusually high percentage of child molestations by
homosexual pedophiles:
· A study on
pedophilia in the Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa
reported: "According to the literature, findings of a two-to-one ratio of
heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles have been documented."[20]
· The Journal
of Sex Research reports a study that included "199 offenders against
female children and 96 offenders against male children. . . . This would
indicate a proportional prevalence of 32 percent of homosexual offenders
against children."[21]
· A
study of male child sex offenders in Child Abuse and Neglect found that
fourteen percent targeted only males, and a further 28 percent chose males as
well as females as victims, thus indicating that 42 percent of male pedophiles
engaged in homosexual molestation.[22]
ARE MEN WHO MOLEST
BOYS REALLY 'HOMOSEXUALS'? Gay Apologists Insist on a Simplistic Stereotype of
Pedophilia
Central to the attempts to separate homosexuality from pedophilia is the
claim that pedophiles cannot, by definition, be considered homosexuals. Relying
upon a questionable methodology[23], the gay
advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign published a "Fact Sheet on
Sexual Orientation and Child Abuse," that states: "A sexual abuser
who molests a child of the same sex is usually not considered homosexual."[24]
The basis for this claim is the view that pedophiles who molest boys cannot
be considered homosexual if that individual has at any time been married or
sexually involved with women.
'Homosexual
Pedophiles': A Clinical Term
The fact is, however, that the terms "homosexual" and
"pedophile" are not mutually exclusive: they describe two
intersecting types of sexual attraction. Webster's Dictionary defines
"homosexual" as someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the
same sex. "Pedophile" is defined as "an adult who is sexually
attracted to young children." The former definition refers to the gender
of the desired sexual object, while the latter refers to the age of the
desired sexual object.
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.[25]
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.[26]
This division has been accepted by pedophiles themselves,[27]
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."[28]
· The Journal
of Sex and Marital Therapy published a study on the same topic, which
discussed "the proportional prevalences of heterosexual and homosexual
pedophilia."[29] 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."[30]
· In a
review of studies on pedophilia, the Psychiatric Journal of the University
of Ottawa concluded: "The findings of previous studies report that
pedophiles can be divided into heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles according
to their erotic preference. . . . This was confirmed in this recent study."[31]
The article classified homosexual pedophilia into three types: the socially
inadequate homosexual pedophile, the intrusive homosexual pedophile, and the
undifferentiated homosexual pedophile.[32]
· A
study of pedophiles in Behavior Research and Therapy concluded:
"The second, and perhaps the most important observation we made, is that a
homosexual and a heterosexual subgroup can be delineated among these offenders.
. . . Categorizing them in this way revealed important differences in the
pattern of their sexual preferences."[33]
· 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 [showed a] 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."[34]
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."[35]
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.[36]
· 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."[37]
Conversely,
Homosexual Pedophiles are Often Attracted to Adult Males
· A study of sex
offenders against male children in Behavior Research and Therapy found
that male homosexual pedophiles are sexually attracted to "males of all
ages." Compared to non-offenders, the offenders showed "greater
arousal" to slides of nude males as old as twenty-four: "As a group,
the child molesters responsed [sp] with moderate sexual arousal . . . to the
nude males of all ages."[38]
· 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.[39]
· 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."[40]
· 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."[41]
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.[42]
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.[43]
· The Journal
of Interpersonal Violence studied the sexual preferences of male pedophiles
who sexually abused children. When they compared the sexual response of the
pedophiles with the control group, they found, unexpectedly:
"Surprisingly, the two groups did not differ in their response to the nude
female stimuli."[44]
· 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."[45] 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."[46]
· A
report by the Department of Justice addressed the devious stratagems of
pedophiles, who will go to great lengths to conceal their true desires:
"Preferential sex offenders may be 'pillars of the community' and are
often described as 'nice guys.' They almost always have a means of access to
children (for example, through marriage, neighborhood, or occupation.)"[47]
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.[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]
Despite this opposition, Thorstad claims that by 1985 homosexual pedophiles
had won acceptance within the gay movement. He cites Jim Kepner, then curator
of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles: "A point
I've been trying to make is that if we reject the boylovers in our midst today
we'd better stop waving the banner of the Ancient Greeks, of Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Horatio Alger, and Shakespeare.
We'd better stop claiming them as part of our heritage unless we are broadening
our concept of what it means to be gay today."[52]
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.
ILGA's renewed attempt to gain admittance to the UN was rejected again in
April 2002 because the organization "did not document that it had purged
pedophile groups such as [NAMBLA]." The Washington Times reports
that Ishtiag H. Anrabi, Pakistani delegate to the UN Economic and Social
Council, expressed concern that ILGA was continuing to be secretive about ties
with pedophile groups: "For more than a year, the ILGA has refused to
provide documentation or allow review of its membership list to demonstrate
that pedophilia groups have been expelled."[53]
Pedophile Themes
Abound in Gay Literature
The late "beat" poet Allen Ginsberg illustrates the seamless
connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. Many know Ginsberg as an
illustrious "out" homosexual poet: fewer are aware that he was also a
pedophile.
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.[54]
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.[55]
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."[56]
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 [which] compels the reader to imagine the world from a perspective he
might ordinarily condemn."[57]
· Several
texts included in another anthology, The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay
Man Should Read, feature scenes of man-boy sex. One such book is praised as
"an operatic adventure into the realms of love, personality, ambition and
art . . . a pure joy to read." The protagonist is "a pedophile's
dream: the mind of a man in the body of a boy."[58]
Another novel which includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence against
boys is said to "[tear] straight to the heart of one of the greatest
sources, community-wide, of 1990's gay angst: What to do with men who love
boys?"[59]
· Yet
another anthology of homosexual fiction, A History of Gay Literature: The
Male Tradition, published by Yale University Press, includes "a
longish chapter on 'Boys and Boyhood' which is a seemingly definitive account
of pro-pedophile literary works."[60]
The author appears more concerned with the feelings and emotions of the man
than with his boy victim. He explores the question of "whether or not you
regard [having sex with boys] as a way of retreating from life or, on the
contrary, as a way of engaging with it at its most honest and least
corrupted level."[61]
· A
significant percentage of books that have appeared on the Gay Men's Press
fiction bestseller list contain pedophilia themes, including:
Some Boys: described as a "memoir of a lover of
boys" that "evokes the author's young friends across four decades."[62]
For a Lost Soldier: the story of a sexual
relationship between a soldier and an eleven-year-old boy, set during World War
II.[63]
A Good Start, Considering: yet another story about an
eleven-year-old boy (!) who suffers sexual abuse but is rescued by a teenager
who "offers him love and affection"[64]
Terre Haute: billed as "A poetic novel of sexual
awakening in the American Midwest, tracing an adolescent's journey from
introspection to perilous desire."
Shiva and Arun: the story of two Indian adolescents
who "discover early on the joys of sex."
Teardrops on My Drum: barefoot kids in 1920's
Liverpool search for "adventure, love and sex."
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:
· Paedophilia:
The Radical Case, which contains detailed information on how to engage in
sexual relations with young boys.[65]
· The
Age Taboo, another defense of pedophiliawhich claims: "Boy-lovers . .
. are not child molesters. The child abusers are . . . parents who force their
staid morality onto the young people in their custody."[66]
The Journal of
Homosexuality and Pedophilia
The Journal of Homosexuality is viewed as the premier
"mainstream" English-language publication of the gay movement. One
prominent editor is John DeCecco, a psychologist at San Francisco State
University who also serves on the editorial board of the Dutch pedophile
journal Paidika. It is therefore not surprising to see pedophilia
promoted on its pages.
In 1990 the Journal of Homosexuality published a series of essays on
pedophilia that were eventually published as Male Inter-Generational
Intimacy:Historical, Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives, edited by
pedophile Edward Brongersma. None of the essays offered any substantive
criticism of pedophilia: most blatantly promoted man-boy love as the natural
right of homosexuals.
In 1999 Helmut Graupner, wrote an article on pedophilia in the Journal of
Homosexuality, in which he claims: "Man/boy and woman/girl relations
without doubt are same-sex relations and they do constitute an aspect of gay
and lesbian life." Graupner argues that, as such, consensual sexual
relations between adult homosexuals and youths as young as fourteen qualifies
as a "gay rights issue."[67]
The fascination with pedophilia continues to be a cause of concern even
within the gay community. Lesbian columnist Paula Martinac, writing in the
homosexual newspaper Washington Blade, states:
[S]ome gay men still maintain that an adult who has same-sex
relations with someone under the legal age of consent is on some level doing
the kid a favor by helping to bring him or her 'out.' It's not pedophilia, this
thinking goes--pedophilia refers only to little kids. Instead,
adult-youth sex is viewed as an important aspect of gay culture, with a history
dating back to 'Greek love' of ancient times. This romanticized version of
adult-youth sexual relations has been a staple of gay literature and has made
appearances, too, in gay-themed films.[68]
Martinac adds that "When some gay men venerate adult-youth sex as
affirming while simultaneously declaring 'We're not pedophiles,' they send an
inconsistent message to society. . . . The lesbian and gay community will never
be successful in fighting the pedophile stereotype until we all stop condoning
sex with young people."[69]
VICTIM'S TURNED
VICTIMIZERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF HOMOSEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
The steadfast denial of the disturbing ties with pedophilia within the
homosexual movement is no purely academic matter. Perhaps the most tragic
aspect of the homosexual-pedophile connection is the fact that men who sexually
molest boys all too often lead their victims into homosexuality and pedophilia.
The evidence indicates that a high percentage of homosexuals and pedophiles were
themselves sexually abused as children:
· The Archives
of Sexual Behavior reports: "One of the most salient findings of this
study is that 46 percent of homosexual men and 22 percent of homosexual women
reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to
only 7 percent of heterosexual men and 1 percent of heterosexual women
reporting having been molested by a person of the same gender."[70]
· A
study of 279 homosexual/bisexual men with AIDS and control patients discussed
in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported: "More
than half of both case and control patients reported a sexual act with a male
by age 16 years, approximately 20 percent by age 10 years."[71]
· Noted
child sex abuse expert David Finkelhor found that "boys victimized by
older men were over four times more likely to be currently engaged in
homosexual activity than were non-victims. The finding applied to nearly half
the boys who had had such an experience. . . . Further, the adolescents
themselves often linked their homosexuality to their sexual victimization
experiences."[72]
· A study
in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
found:"In the case of childhood sexual experiences prior to the age of
fourteen, 40 percent (of the pedophile sample) reported that they had engaged
'very often' in sexual activity with an adult, with 28 percent stating that
this type of activity had occurred 'sometimes'"[73]
· A National
Institute of Justice report states that "the odds that a childhood
sexual abuse victim will be arrested as an adult for any sex crime is 4.7 times
higher than for people . . . who experienced no victimization as children."[74]
· A Child
Abuse and Neglect study found that 59 percent of male child sex offenders
had been "victim of contact sexual abuse as a child."[75]
· The Journal
of Child Psychiatry noted that "there is a tendency among boy victims
to recapitulate their own victimization, only this time with themselves in the
role of perpetrator and someone else the victim."[76]
The circle of abuse is the tragic legacy of the attempts by homosexuals to
legitimize having sex with boys. For too many boys it is already too late to
protect them from those who took advantage of their need for love and
attention. All too many later perpetrate the abuse by themselves engaging in
the sexual abuse of boys. Only by exposing the lies, insincere denials, and
deceptions--including those wrapped in scholastic garb--of those who prey
sexually on children, can we hope to build a wall of protection around the
helpless children among us.
END NOTES
1. Dawn Fisher, "Adult Sex Offenders: Who are They? Why and How Do They Do It?" in Tony Morrison, et al., eds., Sexual Offending Against Children (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 11.
2. Kee MacFarlane, et al., Sexual Abuse of Young Children: Evaluation and Treatment (New York: The Guilford Press, 1986), p. 9.
3. John Briere, et al.,eds., The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1996), pp. 52, 53.
4. Kurt Freund, et al., "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 10 (Fall 1984): 198; See also Freund, K, and Watson, R. J., "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Paedophiles among Sex Offenders against Children: an Exploratory Study," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 18 (1992): 34.
5. Bill Watkins and Arnon Bentovim, "The Sexual Abuse of Male Children and Adolescents: A Review of Current Research," Journal of Child Psychiatry 33 (1992); in Byrgen Finkelman, Sexual Abuse (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995), p. 300.
6. MacFarlane, p. 9.
7. Kurt Freund, et al., "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 10 (1984): 197. "The proportional prevalence of offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children was 36 percent." See also, Kurt Freund, et al., "Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Erotic Age Preference," "Approximately one-third of these individuals had victimized boys and two-thirds had victimized girls. This finding is consistent with the proportions reported in two earlier studies," p. 107.
8. Watkins and Bentovim, p. 315.
9. Robert L. Johnson, "Long-term Effects of Sexual Abuse in Boys," Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (September 1988): 38.
10. "Understanding and Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation," (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 1997), p. 12.
11. Watkins and Bentovim, p. 302.
12. Dan Black, et al., "Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States: Evidence from Available Systematic Data Sources," Demography 37 (May 2000): 141.
13. John O. G. Billy, et al., "The Sexual Behavior of Men in the United States," Family Planning Perspectives 25 (March/April 1993): 58.
14. J. Gordon Muir, "Homosexuals and the 10 percent Fallacy," Wall Street Journal (March 31, 1993).
15. Milton Diamond, "Homosexuality and Bisexuality in Different Populations," Archives of Sexual Behavior 22 (1993):300.
16. Ibid. Significantly, a number of studies that were surveyed, and which skewed the overall percentages of homosexuals upwards, included such vague definers as those having had "any homosexual body contact." In contrast, one study that was limited to self-identifying homosexuals found that less than 2 percent of the male respondents considered their "sexual orientation" to be homosexual, p. 293.
17. Freund, "Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Erotic Age Preference," p. 107. In this and previous studies, Freund claims that homosexuals are no more likely than heterosexuals to be attracted to children (p. 115). However, Silverthorn, et al., mentions the limitations of studies by Freund and others: "Studies of homosexual male preferences are also limited. . . . The Freund et al.(1973) study was possibly compromised because the homosexual men used in the study were selected to be sexually attracted to adults, but not teenaged, males. The Bailey et al. (1994) study was limited in that it did not present participants with objective stimuli but simply asked participants to report what age of sexual partner they preferred . . . the Jankowiak et al. (1992) study . . . was limited in two ways: the homosexual male participants had a limited age range of 'middle-aged professionals' and the stimuli presented to participants were also of a limited age range ('university to middle-aged')." Silverthorn attempted to correct these deficiencies, and in his study found that homosexuals "preferred younger partners than those who preferred female partners"--including those as young as fifteen. Zebulon A. Silverthorne and Vernon L. Quinsey, "Sexual Partner Age Preferences of Homosexual and Heterosexual Men and Women," Archives of Sexual Behavior 29 (February 2000): 67-76.
18. Ray Blanchard, et al., "Fraternal Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles," Archives of Sexual Behavior 29 (2000): 464.
19. Ibid., p. 471.
20. John M. W. Bradford, et al., "The Heterogeneity/Homogeneity of Pedophilia," Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 13 (1988): 225. Elsewhere the study notes: "Researchers have variously estimated the incidence of homosexual pedophilia between 19 percent and 33 percent of reported molestations," p. 218.
21. Freund, "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," p. 197.
22. Michele Elliott, "Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What Offenders Tell Us," Child Abuse and Neglect 19 (1995): 581.
23. The fact sheet discusses a study by Carole Jenny, et al., which claims that only 2 of 269 child molesters could be identified as gay or lesbian. Carole Jenny, et al., "Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse by Homosexuals?" Pediatrics 94 (July 1994): 41-44. However, the Jenny study utilized an atypical research technique: the reported child molesters themselves were not interviewed. Instead, the researchers relied upon the subjective opinions of "informants" who accompanied the child victim to the medical clinic. The qualifications for such "informants" to determine the sexual behavior of the accused molester were not established. However, once it is "determined" beforehand that pedophiles who molest boys cannot be considered gay or homosexual if they have had sexual relations with women, it is a foregone conclusion that few if any of the pedophiles -who often have girlfriends, are married, and have children - will be labeled homosexual. The Jenny study used this narrow profile despite the fact that the study itself found that 22 percent of the perpetrators were of the same sex as the victim. In these cases the molesters clearly engaged in homosexual sexual molestation.
24. "Fact Sheet on Sexual Orientation and Child Abuse," Human Rights Campaign (2001):available at: http://hrc.grassroots.com/family/soandchildabusefact/. The fact sheet discusses a study by Carole Jenny, et al., which claims that only 2 of 269 child molesters could be identified as gay or lesbian. Carole Jenny, et al., "Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse by Homosexuals?" pp. 41-44. However, the Jenny study utilized an atypical research technique. The reported child molesters themselves were not interviewed; instead, the researchers relied upon the subjective opinions of "informants" who accompanied the child victim to the medical clinic.
25. Note that the well-accepted definition of "child" as someone between infancy and the age of maturation is employed here.
26. Bradford, p.218.
27. "[Pedophiles] can be of either sex or any [sexual] orientation, i.e., homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual." Paedophilia:Some Questions and Answers (London: Paedophilic Informational Exchange, 1978); quoted in Seth L. Goldstein, "Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation:Law Enforcement's Role," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 53 (January 1984): 23.
28. W. L. Marshall, et al., "Sexual Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," Behavior Research and Therapy 26 (March 1988): 390.
29. Freund, "Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality," p.194.
30. Ibid., p. 197.
31. Bradford, et al., p. 217.
32. Ibid., pp. 218, 219.
33. Marshall, p. 390.
34. James Bickley and Anthony R. Beech, "Classifying Child Abusers: Its Relevance to Theory and Clinical Practice," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 45 (2001): 56.
35. Krisin A. Danni, et al., "An Analysis of Predicators of Child Sex Offender Types Using Presentence Investigation Reports," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 44 (2000): 491.
36. Zebulon A. Silverthorne and Vernon L. Quinsey, "Sexual Partner Age Preferences of Homosexual and Heterosexual Men and Women," p.73.
37. Karla Jay and Allen Young, The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out about Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles (New York: Summit Books, 1979), p. 275
38. Marshall, "Sexual Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," p. 383.
39. W. L. Marshall, et al., "Early Onset and Deviant Sexuality in Child Molesters," Journal of Interpersonal Violence 6 (1991): 323-336.
40. W. D. Erickson, "Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters," Archives of Sexual Behavior 17 (1988): 83.
41. John F. Harvey, O.S.F.S., The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care (San Francisco: Ignatius Press:1987): 221
42. Ibid., p. 219.
43. Elliott, p. 581.
44. Marshall, "Sexual Offenders against Male Children: Sexual Preferences," p. 383.
45. Bradford, p. 219.
46. Bradford, p. 224.
47. "Understanding and Investigating Child Sexual Exploitation," p. 5.
48. Thorstad is co‑author, with John Lauritsen, of The early homosexual rights movement (1864‑1935) (New York: Times Change Press, 1974).
49. David Thorstad, "May/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement" Journal of Homosexuality 20 (1990): 252.
50. Ibid., p. 253.
51. Ibid., p. 258.
52. Ibid., p. 266.
53. George Archibald, "U.N. Group Keeps Ban on Gay Lobby," Washington Times (May 1, 2002).
54. Raymond-Jean Frontain, "The Works of Allen Ginsberg," Journal of Homosexuality 34 (1997): 109.
55. Mary Eberstadt, "'Pedophilia Chic' Reconsidered" The Weekly Standard 6 (January 8, 2001).
56. Ibid., p. 21.
57. Ibid., p. 22.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., p. 23.
61. Ibid. Emphasis added by Eberstadt.
62. Ibid., p. 23.
63. Ibid.
64. From the Gay Men's Press
website: www.gmppubs.co.uk/cgi-bin/web_store/web_store.cgi
65. Tom O'Carroll, Paedophilia: The Radical Case (Boston:Alyson Publications, 1982).
66. Daniel Tsang, editor, The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power, and Consent (Boston: Alyson Publications ; London : Gay Men's Press, 1981), p. 144.
67. Helmut Graupner, "Love Versus Abuse: Crossgenerational Sexual Relations of Minors: A Gay Rights Issue?" Journal of Homosexuality 37 (1999): 23, 26.
68. Paula Martinac, "Mixed Messages on Pedophilia Need to be Clarified, Unified," Washington Blade (March 15, 2002).
69. Ibid.
70. Marie, E. Tomeo, et al., "Comparative Data of Childhood and Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons," Archives of Sexual Behavior 30 (2001): 539.
71. Harry W. Haverkos, et al., "The Initiation of Male Homosexual Behavior," The Journal of the American Medical Association 262 (July 28, 1989): 501.
72. Watkins and Bentovim, p. 316.
73. Gary A. Sawle, Jon Kear-Colwell, "Adult Attachment Style and Pedophilia: A Developmental Perspective," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 45 (February 2001):6.
74. Cathy Spatz Widom, "Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Later Criminal Consequences," Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse Series:NIJ Research in Brief, (March 1995): 6.
75. Elliott, p. 582.
76. Watkins, p. 319. Watkins mentions several studies confirming that between 19 percent and 61 percent of male sex abusers had previously been sexually abused themselves.