# How rare are female child molesters?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 18, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rare-are-female-child-molesters/775017 "2016-12-18T02:33:07Z")\
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> [@protoboard](#):
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> I don’t know, I’d be pretty grossed out if she was unattractive and uncomfortable even if she was and I partially enjoyed it.
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> That’s interesting how one poster said only a dozen out of “many hundreds” were women. If many hundreds means about 1,000, that’s an 80:1 ratio of male molesters, making female molesters quite rare indeed. Unless they’re much, much more likely to get away with it than men.

I think that almost anybody who seriously thinks about cultural practices and attitudes will come to the conclusions that (a) the average woman has many more opportunities than the average man and (b) women are vastly more likely to get away with it.

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