- jonb,
Hey, what about me? I was recruited into heterosexuality by a twentysomething at age 14. Makes about as much sense as the idea that gay men "recruit" younger men. In fact, it makes 19 times as much sense, according to Freund, since less than 1% of pedophilia cases involved a man and a boy and 19% were a woman with a boy. It bodes even worse for the Family Research Council wrt lesbians: Freund couldn't find a single girl molested by a woman.Originally posted by DoubleMeatWhopper@Oct 16 2004, 09:57 AM
But about the point that Pete raised: he may not understand it, but I do. People fear what they don't know. Fear can't be admitted by some people; it's viewed as a weakness. If they don't 'know' something, they don't understand its inner workings; they can't predict what it's going to do. All they can do is make broad assumptions, and those assumptions are usually wrong. One of the most common misconceptions about gay men is that we're child molesters. Some straight people actually think we prey upon the youth to recruit to our ranks. That's why it's so difficult for high school teachers to live as openly gay.Thankfully, that idiotic notion is no longer espoused by the population at large ... if it weren't for organisations like NAMBLA, it would die a much-deserved death sooner. But such uninformed opinions do linger, and that fear translates into hate, pure and simple.
One of the best qualities of this site is the tolerance of sexual differences by the members. Most (there are some exceptions) find nothing obscene about differing sexualities. Even if they don't agree with the sexual 'lifestyles' as they perceive them, they respect others' rights to live those lifestyles. The members here accept human diversity. In fact, they embrace it. If the outside world were more like LPSG, we'd experience far fewer hate crimes. Unfortunately, we know that will never be the case. My hope is that kids like Pete will shape the future.
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And when I think about it, really, homosexual pedophilia doesn't make much sense; it kinda defeats the purpose of being attracted to members of the same sex if your partners don't have any secondary sex characteristics.