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To: Bryan
They have always been very careful to avoid letting a heterosexual man be a Big Brother to a teenaged girl. The risk of sexual abuse was too great. Common sense ruled. But letting a homosexual man be a Big Brother to a teenaged boy is okay, I guess.

What's truly absurd is that, as the Catholic crisis shows, there's a far higher chance of molestation when homosexual men are around teenage boys than when heterosexual men (normal men) are around teenage girls.

20 posted on 09/04/2002 11:55:55 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
What's truly absurd is that, as the Catholic crisis shows, there's a far higher chance of molestation when homosexual men are around teenage boys than when heterosexual men (normal men) are around teenage girls.

I wouldn't say that the crisis with the Catholic clergy shows any such thing. For one thing, up to this point, people have been a lot more careful in ensuring that their daughters weren't alone around priests than their sons. People found the problem with heterosexual molestation obvious; they weren't nearly as worried about homosexual molestation, since they didn't see it as anywhere near as likely.

For another thing, we don't know anything about what the incidence of heterosexual molestation is, so we can't compare it with the more publicized homosexual molestation.

I'm not saying that the chance is greater, or lesser. I'm saying that the evidence to prove your assertion doesn't exist, because there's no equivalent group of heterosexual men allowed to be alone with teenage girls to compare it to.

25 posted on 09/04/2002 1:26:24 PM PDT by RonF
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