# Dear professors: Gays are NOT child molesters you stupid fucks! Love, Sampiro **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-professors-gays-are-not-child-molesters-you-stupid-fucks-love-sampiro/235805 "2004-03-23T00:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-professors-gays-are-not-child-molesters-you-stupid-fucks-love-sampiro/235805/21 "2004-03-24T22:10:55Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Sorry, I’m not sure what your point is. > > Fact is, men who abuse young children are almost always heterosexual in their adult relationships. Whether the research included seminaries I do not know, but outside the seminary it’s the straight-with-adults men doing the absuing if the victim’s younger than 12 or so. > > Fact also is, priests rape kids a LOT. The victims are below AND above 12 years old. I would expect priest rapists include both homosexuals and heterosexuals. > > What is unquestionably a correct conclusion then is that while sexual orientation is a very poor basis for being fearful of the chance of child molestation, and really has a vanishingly small impact on the chances a person is a child molestor or not, being a Catholic priest is an excellent reason to be concerned about predeliction to raping children. My point was… unless the Pope sneaked in a rule change while the football was on, Catholic priests don’t have adult heterosexual relationships… I would reverse your assertion that “being a Catholic priest is an excellent reason to be concerned about predeliction to raping children.” to “being someone with a prediliction to raping children is an excellent reason to be a Catholic Priest”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-professors-gays-are-not-child-molesters-you-stupid-fucks-love-sampiro/235805/22 "2004-03-24T23:34:20Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > My point was… unless the Pope sneaked in a rule change while the football was on, Catholic priests don’t have adult heterosexual relationships… By the same logic Catholic priests don’t have sex with children, because it’s against church teachings. Except for when they do. I won’t debate how much of molestation by Catholic priests is done by gay priests v. hetero priests because I honestly don’t know how much of the molestation is pedophilia (e.g. pre-pubescent) v. how much is ephebophilic (i.e. post-pubescent) in nature, besides which it is very difficult to find information on the adult sex-drives of men who are supposed to be celibate. While the vast majority of Catholic priests are neither pedophiles or ephebophiles, I think that with those who are would probably fit a different profile from most molesters anyway in that who they sexually violate is borne of convenience, but I state again that this is my opinion and not based on scholarly research into the subject. Personally, I think that any man who signs away lifelong rights to a sexual outlet is either already disturbed or asking for trouble- while it’s possible to live a celibate life, it’s not easy and many would argue it isn’t healthy either (especially when you’re encouraging all around you in the beauty of sex because it brings children). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-professors-gays-are-not-child-molesters-you-stupid-fucks-love-sampiro/235805.md?page=1)