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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 4141746" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Even if in some contexts, such as the Catholic <a href="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf" target="_blank">priest sex-abuse scandal</a>, the victims and perpetrators were disproportionately likely to be of the same gender, most researchers say the motivating factor wasn’t sexual orientation. Instead, it was the perpetrators’ pathological attraction to children and their access to children of a certain gender—altar boys, in the priests’ case. “The important point is that many child molesters cannot be meaningfully described as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals (in the usual sense of those terms) because they are not really capable of a relationship with an adult man or woman,” writes Gregory Herek, an emeritus professor of social psychology at the University of California at Davis, <a href="http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html" target="_blank">on his blog</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 4141746, member: 22662"] Even if in some contexts, such as the Catholic [URL='http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf']priest sex-abuse scandal[/URL], the victims and perpetrators were disproportionately likely to be of the same gender, most researchers say the motivating factor wasn’t sexual orientation. Instead, it was the perpetrators’ pathological attraction to children and their access to children of a certain gender—altar boys, in the priests’ case. “The important point is that many child molesters cannot be meaningfully described as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals (in the usual sense of those terms) because they are not really capable of a relationship with an adult man or woman,” writes Gregory Herek, an emeritus professor of social psychology at the University of California at Davis, [URL='http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html']on his blog[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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