@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Well I take iback what I said - or some of it. It was actually quite easy to find relevant information. True, it does only deal with male homosexuality and paedophilia, but I would imagine the same crieria - and problems - would apply to a sudy of female homosexuals.
PAEDOPHILIA AND HOMOSEXUALITY ~
"In principle, it should not be difficult to design a study which would provide the information needed to show the relationship between homosexual behavior and child molestation. One might, for example, take a random sample of those men and women who are 'homosexual' and find the proportion of them who can be regarded as 'child molesters.' Alternatively, one might identify a random sample of those who are 'child molesters' and see what part of this sample can be classified as 'homosexuals.' Finally, appropriate comparisons with comparable groups of 'heterosexuals' would allow an investigator to determine the extent to which child molestation is an act characteristically related to homosexual behavior ...
In fact, it appears that no such study has ever been conducted. And there are good reasons for believing that no such study ever could be conducted."
(Newton, 1978, p. 31)It is generally held to be a dubious proposition that homosexuality and paedophilia are linked. While some paedophiles are homosexually orientated towards both adults and children, this does not in tself_demonstrate a causal association between the two. There are a number of issues:
(1) Uncertainty about the rates of paedophilia in heterosexual and homosexual men;
(2) Uncertainty about the rates of homosexuality among adult men;
(3) The apparent sexual preference of some heterosexual people for adult females while offending against boys.
https://www.ipce.info/host/howitt/2c.htm
OOPS?
Oops indeed. We're dealing with homosexuality and peaedophilia in the catholic priesthood in this thread, She-el, while you're showing a a study of the general population that has not actually been taken.
Actually I did a little bit of searching into the subject and found this:
Studies find it difficult to quantify specific percentages of Roman Catholic priests who identify as gay priests although the John Jay Report reported that "homosexual men entered the seminaries in noticeable numbers from the late 1970s through the 1980s", and available figures for homosexual priests in the United States range from 15–58%.[
A 2002 Los Angeles Times nationwide poll of 1,854 priests (responding) reported that 9 percent of priests identified themselves as homosexual, and 6 percent as "somewhere in between but more on the homosexual side." Asked if a "homosexual subculture" (defined as a "definite group of persons that has its own friendships, social gatherings and vocabulary") existed in their diocese or religious order, 17 percent of the priests said "definitely," and 27 percent said "probably." 53 percent of priests who were ordained in the last 20 years (1982-2002) affirmed such a subculture existed in the seminary when they attended.
