Scientific rearch do not provi any evince that gay men or lbians are any more likely than heterosexuals to molt children
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THE TTH ABOUT GAY MEN AND PEDOPHILIA
As ual, hypocril straight, old whe men, guilty of nductg, aidg and abettg rampant pedophilia throughout the church, e the rultg sndal not to addrs their unrlyg rponsibily or the roots of the problem but to st blame on gay men ["For Gay Catholic Prits, New Scty, " Metro, June 24]. The report, tled "Homosexualy and Child Sexual Abe, " brgs to light some signifint fdgs: * Pedophil are variably mal: A report by the Amerin Profsnal Society on the Abe of Children stat: "In both clil and non-clil sampl, the vast majory of offenrs are male.
* Homosexuals are overreprented child sex offens: Individuals om the 1 percent to 3 percent of the populatn that is sexually attracted to the same sex are mtg up to one-third of the sex crim agast children. A study the Journal of Sex Rearch found that although heterosexuals outnumber homosexuals by a rat of at least 20 to 1, homosexual pedophil m about one-third of the total number of child sex offens.
In one study, ced by Psychology Today, 50 percent of gay men San Francis had over 500 sexual partners, pared to heterosexual men who had a lifetime average partner number of 15. "Although the cince of heterosexual pedophil exceeds that of homosexual pedophil by a factor of about two to one, dividuals the populatn at large wh a heterosexual orientatn outnumber those wh a homosexual orientatn by about 20 to 1.