# Homosexuals More Pedophilic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 27, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437 "2004-10-27T13:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437/41 "2004-10-29T23:10:41Z")
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**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437/42 "2004-10-30T17:33:26Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Well, since many Pedophiles can’t & don’t have normal sexual relations with any adults, I think your last statement is a bit much. Pretty much- your child is safe if left alone with anyone but a pedophile, and you really can’t tell who is or isn’t one of those all that easiliy. I think the first sentence is incorrect. Many cases of sexual abuse of children are from people who have sex with other adults. Normal, of course, is hard on that front. The second statement also seems odd, but I’m not sure what you meant by it re: safe if left alone with anyone but a pedophile. Seems wrong the face of it. ---
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437/43 "2004-10-30T17:40:40Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > … I think there is a reverse question in there that is worth asking: whether pedophiles are more likely to be oriented towards the same-sex child or different-sexed child. > > That is, it’s not a case of homosexuals being more likely to be pedophiles. However, is it the case that pedophiles are more likely to be “homosexual” (that is, same-sex oriented)? Interesting question. I believe it is true, maybe I said this before but not in the context of this question, that many boys who are sexually abused are abused by their dad or mom’s boyfriend. Certainly, these men may or may not be gay and may have adult heterosexual relations, fantasies, interests, etc. It’s all very confusing, like trying to figure out if a person who has sex with men is gay in a society where labels like gay is not even remotely used as it is in the West. ---
**Author:** ![drhess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@drhess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drhess)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437/44 "2004-10-30T18:11:10Z")
> [@fessie](#): > > Just one more question. If you’re saying that being a pedophile is significantly different from having an adult sexual orientation and therefore not quantifiable in the same way (which makes sense, since it is rather off the charts) — what is the orientation of these men who abuse their own daughters? There’s one in the news today, he killed his own 3-yr-old girl and there are indications of a history of sexual abuse. But he was (at one time) married and had a son as well - that would seem to be an adult sexual orientation. How does that correlate with the other assertions made here? It seems to me, althought this rather anti-academic of me and I’m an academic, that there is little use of defining the “sexual orientation” of somebody who is so screwed up that he abuses and kills a 3 year old (boy or girl; his or not). For instance, there was the big to-do a few years back about the movie A Beautiful Mind and the real life man’s sexuality. To me, the fact that he was seriously delusional makes it impossible to place a “real” orientation on his sexual behavior when he’s pscyhotic (though likely not impossible to do so when he’s not-pyschotic). I mean the man thought he was a mouse for crying out loud and he saw samurai and martians! So, my silly analogy here is that if somebody is doing what you described, orientation, and maybe even sex, seems to be out of the picture. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuals-more-pedophilic/271437.md?page=2)