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To: reborn22
With all due respect, Bryan, what you say in your #239 is something you've just made up, so it proves nothing. What I DO know is that in all the news stories of sexual offenses against children - pedophile offenses - the perpetrators are predominantly men who have lived their lives as heterosexuals.

The example I gave in Post #239 was hypothetical. It was simply intended to show how (I think) you're misunderstanding the statistics. This is what your previous post said:

Aren't we agreed that Kinsey was in error and that only 1-2 percent of Americans are homosexual? Yet more than 1-2 percent of sexual acts on underage persons are homosexual ones. Therefore there are many heterosexuals (including married men and priests) who like to perform sexual acts with persons of the same sex.

Look at the hypothetical example in Post #239. Even though 2% of the community was made up of homosexual men, 40% of the incidents of sexual contact between an adult and a teenager under the age of legal consent involved a man and a teenaged boy. But none of them involved a heterosexual man and a teenaged boy.

I can think of a couple of factors which might be leading to that perception: (A) closeted bisexual men, who show a "heterosexual face" to the public but carry on homosexual affairs secretly; and (B) the distortions by the gay-friendly left-wing media.

Now, do you have any statistics on the percentage of males who are bisexual?

No, I don't.

I have heard that many married men have "affairs" with homosexual men, while leading an ostensibly conventional family life. In fact I have read that many homosexual men prefer to marry and have children because they wish to have as normal a family life as they can, and otherwise live as apparently normal Americans.

Exactly. Perhaps these are the "heterosexuals" who are involved in homosexual conduct. They aren't actually heterosexual, even though they claim to be.

Oh, and I think we should disregard all Kinsey's statistics. As much of this has been questioned, and as his survey was carried out a very long time ago, I don't think he has much to say to Americans today.

There are many areas of human behavior that haven't changed much in 3000 years. The Scriptures address them, and they have as much meaning today as when they were written. So I don't think that the passage of 50 years makes Kinsey's data obsolete.

Regarding its original accuracy, certainly the 10% figure has been discredited. But Gebhard & Johnson conducted a very detailed review of his work in The Kinsey Data, and clearly identified the portions which were useless, and other portions which used sound methodology.

246 posted on 09/13/2002 10:27:58 PM PDT by Bryan
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To: Bryan
I know you mean well, but the hypothetical example you gave WAS entirely made up by your good self, and therefore of no use whatsoever in this debate.
249 posted on 09/15/2002 5:17:06 PM PDT by reborn22
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