The FRC is home to some of the most blatant lies about gays and lesbians around and this is one of them.
When you see claims like this the first thing you need to ask is how did they identify which perpetrator was homosexual and which were heterosexual. Very often they will try to tell you that who is who is obvious. Please understand when someone is saying something like that it is to cover up the fact that the sexual orientation of the perpetrator of child sexual assault just has not been identified. They don’t question what is the actual sexual orientation of the molesters, they tell the them what sexual orientation they must be.
The only way to legitimately claim anything about the sexual orientation of a child molester is to ask him. And yes real researchers have done exactly that.
Dr. Carole Jenny was the director of the Child Advocacy and Protection Team at Denver's Childrens Hospital, and she also directed medical programs at the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Jenny and her colleagues reviewed 269 medical records of Denver-area children who were sexually abused by adults. Of 50 male children, 37 (74%) were molested by men who had been in a heterosexual relationship with the child’s relative. Three were molested by women, five were molested by both parents, and three others were molested by non-relatives. Only one perpetrator could be identified as being possibly homosexual in his adult behavior Jenny, Carole; Roesler, Thomas A.; Poyer, Kimberly L. “Are children at risk for sexual abuse by homosexuals?” Pediatrics
This means that the percentage of homosexual child molesters is 0.4%
In 1998, he and Dr. Jean Birnbaum published a study of 175 convicted male child molesters in which they found:
The child offender is a relatively young adult either who has been sexually attracted to underage persons almost exclusively in his life or who turns to a child as a result of stresses in his adult sexual or marital relationships. Those offenders who are sexually attracted exclusively to children show a slight preference for boys over girls, yet these same individuals are uninterested in adult homosexual relationships. In fact, they frequently express a strong sexual aversion to adult males. Groth, A. Nicholas; Birnbaum, H Jean. “Adult sexual orientation and attraction to underage persons.” Archives of Sexual Behavior
In over 12 years of clinical experience working with child molesters, we have yet to see any example of an adult homosexual orientation. Groth, A. Nicholas; Hobson, William F.; Gary, Thomas S. “The child molester: clinical observations.” In Social Work and Child Sexual Abuse.
These people worked for years with child molesters and they couldn’t identify one adult gay man who was a molester
Dr. Kurt Freund and his associates at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry skipped asking the molesters what their sexual orientation was and directly studied the sexual response of child molesters to viewing pictures of nude men, women and children.
“These studies show that only rarely are sex offenders against male children diagnosed as androphiles [homosexual in adult orientation] and that phallometric diagnosis of gynophilic [heterosexual in adult orientation] and androphilic volunteers almost always corresponds to their claimed erotic preference.” Freund, Kurt; Watson, Robin J.; Rienzo, Douglas. “Heterosexuality, homosexuality, and the erotic age preference.” Journal of Sex Research
A 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes one study that found: “98 percent of pedophiles are heterosexual men.” Holmes, W.C. and Slap, G.B. (1998). Sexual abuse of boys: Definition, prevalence, correlates, sequelae and management. Journal of the American Medical Association
Child molestation is a crime of opportunity not of gender. Those men who molest (and yes it is almost exclusively men who do the molesting) will sexually abuse a child that is available to them without regard to the gender of the child. If it is a boy who is available then it is a boy that perpetrator will sexually assault. If that child is a girl then likewise that is who t perpetrator will assault. Child molesters rarely have a preferred victim gender.
A second fact of child sexual abuse is that in 89% of cases of child sexual abuse the victim of child molestation is abused by his/her father, step-father, grandfather or his/her mother’s romantic/sexual partner.
