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Nor should they be. When I was a freshman I was dating a senior when so I was 15 / she was 18 . After she graduated and she turned 19 I was still 15 for a few months so I supposed by today's standards, I was a victim of rape, simply because I was dating someone older.

Unfortunately "over-protective" is the default setting for parents today. I remember when my kids were little and I would take them to the local park, women would try and help my daughter get off the monkey bars for fear she might fall off. EVERY time we would go ! My daughter had gymnastics classes from an early age, and was quite confident in her ability. The park had rubber cushions under the monkey bars. So there was little risk of her falling and actually injuring herself. Yet these women were convinced that this child had be abandoned by her parent(s) and was running wild and dangerously. ( I was sitting mere feet away). Of course they had no concern for her twin brother who was joining her. The assumption that a little girl couldn't possibly survive on a monkey bar five feet up was beyond ridiculous, yet multiple women were indignant that I would allow such a thing to happen. ( My daughter never fell once in all the years we went to that park ). Women destroy their children's confidence and independence today. They will tell their child it's ok that some people are homosexuals, but God forbid you should be allowed to be alone in their company. ☹️

Curious why any Lutheran would WANT to convert to Roman Catholicism since we view the Roman order as a bastardization of Christianity. Curious if they also must promise their inheritance to Rome ?

WAAAGH That book title is so much better.( Or at least more accurate.)

Exactly. What I can't seem to find in the data that's available online is statistics about how many otherwise-seemingly-heterosexual men have been accused of molesting boys. I would assume this is a category, since as you stated pedophilia and sexual identity are different.

I was curious because I'd never even thought about the subject before this conversation thread. I can tell you I came across a few articles that made the same claim. That the incidents are "equal". But this claim runs into the same problem. If the incidents of boys molested by men and girls molested by men are "equal" that does mean a higher PERCENTAGE of homosexuals are guilty when you factor in that the population of gay men is far less than heterosexual men. ( Which they are not mentioning) and therefore distorting their conclusions. I can only guess these articles are written specifically to dispell the stereotype by deliberately misinterpreting the numbers. Unemployment does the same. Numbers are always quoted as number of people who are actively collecting unemployment insurance instead of including the number of people who are unemployed long past their insurance runs out. Makes for a better statistic. As with all data you need to compare apples to apples and not be tricked into an incomplete comparisons to make a point .

I know that's what you said. So I looked it up myself The numbers don't agree with you.

Just checked out 7.0 ( I've been avoiding it ). A little difficult to navigate. Reminds me of driving along thousands of billboards and trying to figure out where the actual road signs are. One thing I found curious is there's a section of filters with colored stars you can select..but with no explanation of what the different colors represent. Anyone else see this new feature ? Any idea what it does ?

I'm horny 24/7 . So I wouldn't know. 😂

You're right about equal amounts of young girls and young boys reporting inappropriate sexual behavior from adults. Both about 25%. But you can't say that's equal when only 10-15% of the general population are gay. 85% of the population committing 25% of the crime vs 15% of the population committing the other 25% is a VERY different thing. When you do the math the statistic actually shows a MUCH higher likelihood of gay men to engage in inappropriate sexual activity with underage boys. I'm going to asssume that everyone who's claiming it to be "equal" is also forgetting to do the math. But as @marylander1940 pointed out these incidents could be conducted by bisexual or homosexual men. There doesn't seem to be any clear statistics about how many of the men who abused boys were homosexual v.s. bisexual. ( Or even how many of the girls).

Thats Max Ehrich. Soap Opera/ TV and movie star. Probably can afford his own gas. But it is always tempting to offer to help a cute boy in need. 😉

Was a nice looking guy ( before the lumberjack beard ).

So if that's true it would be 90% heterosexual and 10 - 15% homosexual. In line with the population of gay men. Not 25%

Saw her recently in person. That photo doesn't look like her. Although she has done some good plastic surgery so yeah she looks late 60s not 80s.

That statistic alone would demonstrate a higher ratio of homosexual molestation. If 75% are heterosexual and 25% are homosexual, and only 10% of the population is homosexual...That would mean gay men are significantly more likely to be a child molester. Where did you get that 75% statistic ?

Teenagers disappointed that they won't be jerking-off to THIS issue. Curious how much is photo-shop and how much is good plastic surgery. Personally if I were an 80 year old woman, I'd have gone for a less revealing swimsuit. Sagging old titties are a turn off.

I'm assuming the original post was targeting MENTAL HEALTH as the category for the health forum.

When I was in High School and College my gay friends thought I was just kool and open-minded because I would hang out with them. So, even the gays couldn't see my same sex attraction. So not so sure that's true. I think bisexuals have always had a better cover.

The public gallows was definitely being used as a deterrent more than a means to limit the prison population.

Today's weather: heavy rain and here's a pic of me in leather....

The subject of the thread is GAY in the 50s., not bisexual in the 50's.

The "gay" scene in Long Island is minimal compared to the bisexual community. There has always been a tremendous amount of married men who don't identify as gay but who DO like to get-off with guys. Therefore there always has to be a component of strong hetero-normative sexual visuals added for their degree of deniability about the possibility they might be gay. Book stores / video shops etc will be surrounded with straight porn while they suck dick. This is why many of these kinds of places are busier during the day. Most of these men need to get home to their wife and kids at night.

Again: I said NOTHING about comparative evidence to say that gays molest children more. Not did I "promote" a stereotype. I added information about WHERE the stereotype comes from. That's all. When discussing a subject of stereotypes, the analysis of origin may not be pretty. But yes...to be clear: this inappropriate behavior is separate from hetero or homo sexual identity. As a matter of fact, it's not unusual for heterosexual men to abuse boys. Making the predatory behavior something other than sexual attraction. The 1950s were a period of great social change after WWII where people were returning to a more puritanical behavioral model as a way to bind communities and shed "bad" players who didn't fit in. The evils of Nazism were viewed as a social virus that infected the German community. So anyone who was deemed an outsider was viewed as a potential threat. Especially considering most Americans in the 1950s were of German descent. Homosexuals were gaining visibility in the 1920s but had to go back into the closet by the 1950s. Any risk to the community (such as child molesting) was exaggerated as being part of homosexual behavior as a way to marginalize them. That's why the behavior became more associated with gays even though it's not necessarily any more common in gays than straights.

My understanding is that most families who identified homosexuality in their sons pushed them to join the priesthood as a way to sweep the issue under the carpet when they didn't marry and make grandchildren. But even there "relationships" are frowned upon so "mentoring" young boys ends up being a dirty secret place to get off. It's all very dysfunctional yet theres been no movement in the Vatican to call for change this weird custom.

Trading meth for sex is certainly "a thing" in parts of the US.