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Long, fascinating read. So worth it. Among other things, I did not know that so many prominent PGM doctors were gay men.
It makes sense that the 1.5% of the population that commits 1/3 of all child rapes would go into a field that horribly harms children.
Do you have a source for this?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1556756/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/pr0.1985.57.3f.1227
This is so obvious in hindisght, but its unspeakable.
Ive heard this statistic before, that about 2/3 of victims are girls. From that statistic alone you can tell that homosexual men are much more likely to be offenders. Since female offenders are so rare, and since heterosexual men vastly outnumber homosexual men, homosexual men must be significantly more likely to be pedophiles than straight men.
The only way that gay men would not be significantly more dangerous is if there were a bunch of men who are attracted to adult women and young boys but not young girls. Seems unlikely.
We're not allowed to think this though. Facts are less important than male feelings.
At this point, I no longer care if something is "bigoted". I only care if it's true.
I wish it hadn't come to this.
I don't know how to break down that statistic because pedophiles often molest children of both sexes. And many pedophiles who molest boys are heterosexual with respect to adult sex partners.
I have a lot of problems with these studies, especially how they decided the sexual orientation of the perpetrators in the first one. There are many confounding factors, including whether the scrote was aroused due to homosexuality or simply because it's considered a taboo act. I think this research is drawing tenuous conclusions from their data. (I hope I don't have to say this, but the sex of the child who was molested also doesn't always correlate to the sexual orientation of the perpetrator, which people here seem to be assuming it does)