In Monday’s post we talked about the attempt to normalize
pedophilia, along with other sexual deviancies that have been normalized. There’s
still so much, I don’t know if I’ll get it all in today’s post.
We’ll start with a little personal experience.
Last week we had our granddaughter, Little Political Sphere
1, visiting us for a sort of staycation. One of my favorite parts is getting to
do story reading at bedtime. She was really slow getting ready for bed, though,
because she was distracted by her tablet. So I confiscated it until she got her
teeth brushed.
The tablet is a sturdy thing designed for kids, and only has
access to things that are meant for kids. There are games, some of them
interactive with other kids, and there’s some live-streaming that seems pretty
silly to me, but she enjoys it. And there’s music.
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| I don't know if this is the brand, but it looks about like this. Image from Amazon |
Anyway, while I was waiting for her, she set me up to watch
a music video she thought I might like. When that was done, I went on to
another that was suggested in the right margin. I recognized the name Taylor
Swift and mostly enjoy her music, so I clicked on that one (not a song name I
remember). The video that came up with it was an animated story.
Remember, this is aimed at young children. LPS1 is almost 9.
We’re talking mid-elementary school-age, not middle school or higher. The
animation was of children that looked her age.
There was a young boy who sees someone he knows along the
sidewalk. His heart starts beating out beyond his chest, throbbing visibly. He’s
embarrassed about how obvious it is, so he climbs a tree and takes a look from
there. The other child he’s watching is reading a book while walking and
tossing an apple up and down. Boy-in-tree’s heart bursts out of his chest and
goes and replaces the apple. He must go get it back. So he sneaks up, reaches
for it, accidentally gets the attention of the apple-tossing child. He’s
awkwardly close, and even more embarrassed. But then their eyes lock, and
suddenly his love is reciprocated.
If you’re assuming the apple-tossing child is a girl, you
should still see how ridiculous this is. Boys this age think girls have
cooties, and girls know this about boys too. This is years before they’re
interested in falling in love with someone. So the story is a lie. Cute? Maybe,
but a lie. A girl who is suddenly confronted by a boy who invades her personal
space, whether or not she recognizes his crush on her, is going to go “Eww! Get
away!”
But the apple-tossing child, who is the target of the
tree-climbing boy’s heart throb, is a very cool looking boy. The kind who does
well in sports and wears casually cool clothes, and is just cool without even
thinking about it. This other boy, who was perfectly comfortable in his
nine-year-old world, is not going to suddenly feel romantic love for this odd
boy who has just invaded his space.
First, only 2% of the adult population is attracted to the
same sex. Among nine-year-olds next to 0% are. They’re not romantically
attracted to anyone at that age. Boys are, however, attracted to boys in
another way at this age. They want to be around the boys they like, that they
admire, that they share interests with. It’s about learning to develop
friendships. Any hint that this attraction is sexual is a lie, and it’s
harmful. Another harmful lie is that, if you’re this age and not interested in
girls, and you prefer to be with boys, you ought to start worrying that you
might be gay.
Media and societal lies of this sort don’t do what they
purport to intend: they do not get people over their supposed prejudices. These
lies don’t get to truth. They have nothing to do with truth.
I have a word for this type of lie: heteromorphism. Look at the word anthropomorphism, which means
attributing characteristics of humans (Anthropos)
to animals, to make them (morph)
human-like. So heteromorphism means
attributing characteristics of heterosexuals to homosexuals.
Are homosexuals and their relationships the same as heterosexuals
and their relationships with just the gender substitution? That’s is becoming a
common belief. And it’s tempting to believe.
I don’t have a wide range of acquaintance with homosexuals
in my life. I’ve had my share of teachers and co-workers. But because most of
my circle consists of working at home, going to church, relating to other
families with growing or grown children, I don’t frequently interact with that
2% of the population. But there are friends of friends, and I’m sympathetic.
There’s a tendency among us to assume that these are people pretty much like
us. They find someone they are attracted to and want to spend their life with,
and if we just get out of their way and let them live the way they want, isn’t
that the decent thing to do?
If you read Monday’s post, I think you’ll see that’s the
view of Roaming Millennial. That’s why she so clearly separated pedophiles from
LGBTs. Because LGBTs are just like us except for some harmless quirky
differences, but pedophiles are nothing like us.
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| Screen shot from Roaming Millennial's video blog |
If that’s true, it will hold up to scrutiny.
Here’s some data:
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A majority of male homosexuals (according to the
CDC in 1997) have over 500 sexual partners in their lifetime. Among the first
several hundred AIDS patients, their average was 1100.[i]
·
Homosexual males average 22 sexual partners per
year (almost two new partners per month).
·
Lesbians average 50 male sexual partners in
their lifetime (compared to an average of 12 for women who only have sex with
men).[iii]
·
Nearly all (possibly all—studies ended when none
could be found) long-term “committed” homosexual relationships accommodate infidelity
as acceptable.[v]
·
Self-identified homosexual teens (not
questioning or bisexual) have pregnancy rates two to seven times greater than
heterosexuals in their demographic. 10% of males who consider themselves
homosexual or questioning have had enough sex with females to have caused a
pregnancy.[vi]
·
Homosexual teens are twice as likely to be
sexually active as heterosexual teens.
·
Adult male homosexuals have a life expectancy
twenty years shorter than the total male population; those with AIDS have even
less time.[vii]
·
Homosexuals are statistically more likely to
suffer the entire gamut of mental illness than the rest of society—as much as 6
times higher.[viii]
·
Almost 50% of male homosexuals and 55% of
females have suffered abuse requiring hospitalization caused by a sexual
partner. When emotional abuse is included, 83% of males and 84% of females have
been abused by a partner.[ix]
·
17% of young men in America are sexually abused
before adulthood, more than 86% by homosexual men. Mathematically, this means
that a child molester is statistically 10 to 20 times more likely to be a
homosexual than a heterosexual.[x]
·
Homosexual males are three times more likely
than straight men to engage in pedophilia, and the average pedophile victimizes
between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.[xii]
·
Though homosexuals make up just two percent of
the U.S. population, homosexuals commit 33 percent of the pedophilia crimes.
·
About 40 percent of homosexuals have been
victims of childhood sexual abuse or adult sexual violence.
We could also mention that homosexual couples do not engage
in the sexual act that heterosexual couples engage in. It may be that there’s a
lack of oxytocin or other hormone, which bonds heterosexual couples, and that
explains why most homosexual couples are neither committed nor exclusive. They
don’t get the satisfaction that committed heterosexual couples get, so they
keep searching and not finding.
There’s more bad news, but I think we’ve brought up enough
questions for today.
I know I tend to think that the friends of friends I know
who are in homosexual relationships must be the rare committed cases. But
social science data shows the likelihood of that to be low. I’m probably more
accurate if I don’t heteromorphize,
even though my sympathies make me want to.
Another day we’ll have to talk about which is kinder:
pretending there’s no difference and encouraging their behavior, or offering an
alternative?
What is most distressing from the data is the strong correlation between
homosexuality and pedophilia. Roaming Millennial was so clear that there’s a
total separation. But she didn’t know the data that I did, even though it’s
been around a long time.[xiii]
And she hasn’t been aware of the normalizing she’d been subjected to her whole
lifetime.
But she is right: normalizing has crossed a line.
There’s more normalizing of the LGBT agenda to cover. I’ll
get to that in a Part III.
[i]
G. Rotell, Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the
Destiny of Gay Men (New York, Dutton, 1997).
[ii]
Xiridou, Maria, et al., “The Contribution of Steady and Casual Partnerships to
the Incidence of HIV infection among Homosexual Men in Amsterdam,” 1029-1038 AIDS, 17 (7) May 2, 2003.
[iii]
Fethers, Katherine, et al., “Sexually Transmitted Infections and Risk Behaviors
in Women Who Have Sex with Women,” Sexually
Transmitted Infections 76 (2000): 348.
[iv]
Kronemeyer, Robert. Overcoming
Homosexuality, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1980, p. 32.
[v]
McWhirter, David P., and Andrew M. Mattison, The Male Couple: How
Relationships Develop (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984), pp. 252, 3. They
reported that in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting from
one to 37 years, only 7 couples have a totally exclusive sexual relationship,
and these men all have been together for less than five years. Stated another
way, all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have
incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships.
No “monogamous” relationship among men longer than the ones set out in this
book have been documented.
[vii]
Hogg, R. S., S. A. Strathdee, K. J. Craib, M. V O’Shaughnessy, J. S. Montaner,
and M. T. Schechter, “Modeling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay
and Bisexual Men,” International Journal
of Epidemiology, Vol 26, 657-662, 1997. “In a major Canadian centre, life
expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than
for all men. If the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate
that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach
their 65th birthday.”
[viii]
Homosexual conduct has consequences for mental health. There is a well-documented
correlation between homosexuality and suicide and mental illness. See, e.g.,
Theo B. M. Sandfort, De Graaqf, Bilj, and Schable, “Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
and Psychiatric Disorders: Findings from
the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study,” 85 (Archives of General Psychiatry 85 (January 2001)
(“The findings support the assumption that people with same-sex behavior are at
greater risk for psychiatric disorders”); Richard Herrell, et al., “Sexual
Orientation and Suicidality,” Archives of General
Psychiatry 867 (October 1999) (“Same-gender sexual orientation is
significantly associated with each of the suicidality measures” and “is
unlikely to be due solely to substance abuse or other psychiatric
co-morbidity”); David M. Fergusson, et al., “Is Sexual Orientation Related to
Mental Health Problems and Suicidality in Young People?” Archives of General Psychiatry 876 (October 1999)
(“Findings support recent evidence suggesting that gay, lesbian, and bisexual
young people are at increased risk of mental health problems, with these
associates being particularly evident for measures of suicidal behavior and
multiple disorder.”) While some may
argue that these findings are “caused by society oppression” (J Michael Bailey,
“Homosexuality and Mental Illness,” Archives of General Psychiatry 883 and 884 October 1999), this is not the only
possible explanation. The survey of findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study found a
significant greater risk for psychiatric disorders among homosexuals, even
though “the Dutch social climate toward homosexuality has long been and remains
considerably more tolerant” than most of the world. Sandfort, et al, above, at
89. Other possible explanations include hypotheses that “homosexuality
represents a deviation from normal development and is associated with other
such deviations that may lead to mental illness,” and that “increased
psychopathology among homosexual people is a consequence of lifestyle
differences associated with sexual orientation.” J. Michael Bailey, above, at 884. Also,
Sandfort et al., above, at 85-91. (Youth
are four times more likely to suffer major depression, also three times as
likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder, nearly four times as likely to
experience conduct disorder, four times as likely to commit suicide, five times
as likely to have nicotine dependence, six times as likely to suffer multiple
disorders, and over six times as likely to have attempted suicide.
Additionally, this research originates in the Netherlands where homosexuality
is much more mainstream and accepted.)
Substance abuse is an additional health concern of those in the
homosexual lifestyle: Timothy J. Dailey,
“The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality” and associated notes, Family
Research Council “The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychologists reports
that lesbian women consume alcohol more frequently, and I larger amounts, than
heterosexual women. Lesbians were at significantly greater risk than
heterosexual women for both binge drinking (19.4 percent compared to 11.7
percent), and for heavy drinking (7 percent compared to 2.7 percent)….Among
men, by far the most important risk group consisted of homosexual and bisexual
men, who were more than nine times as likely as heterosexual men to have a
history of problem drinking.”
[ix]
Susan C. Turnell, “A Descriptive Analysis of Same-Sex Relationship Violence for
a Diverse Sample,” Journal of Family Violence,
281 (2000) (finding that 44% of gay men report having experienced physical
violence in their relationships, including 14% reporting sexual violence, with
83% reporting emotional abuse. Among lesbians:
55% acknowledge having experienced physical violence, 14% report sexual
abuse and 84% report emotional abuse); See also, U.S. Department of Justice
Study, Citizen Magazine (January
2000) (reporting that the U.S. Justice Study found an epidemic of violence
between homosexuals: an annual average of 13,740 male victims of violence by
homosexual partners and 16,900 victims by lesbian partners. By contrast, the
most recent numbers—1999—for “hate crimes” based on sexual orientation totaled
a relatively low 1,558 victims). See also New
York Times article “Alleged Murder Is Further Proof of Domestic Violence as
Major Health Risk of Homosexuals, Traditional Values Group Says,” available at http://www.afaanwpa.org, quoting Diane
Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Northwestern
Pennsylvania: “The truth is that acts of outside aggression against individuals
involved in homosexual behavior, while always highly publicized, are rare. The
far greater threat of violence to individuals involved in homosexual
relationships—a staggering 50,000 percent higher risk, according to research by
homosexual activists themselves—is the epidemic of domestic violence such
individuals commit against each other.”
See also David Island and Patrick Letellier, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them, p. 14, “The probability of
violence occurring in a gay couple is mathematically double the probability of
that in a heterosexual couple…we believe as many as 650,000 gay men may be
victims of domestic violence each year in the United States.”
[x]
See Baldwin, Steve, “Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement” and
associated notes. “Homosexuals account for between 25% and 40% of all child
molestation. Sex researchers Freund, Heasman, Racansky, and Glancy, for example,
in a 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital
Therapy article, put the number at 36%. Erickson, Walbek, Sely, in a 1988 Archives of Sexual Behavior article,
places it at 86% when the children being molested are male (citing W. D.
Erickson et al, “Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters,” 17 Archives of Sexual Behavior 1, 83 (1988), supra note 1 at 83). …It
should be noted that homosexuals account for only 2% of the population which
statistically means that a child molester is ten to twenty times more likely to
be homosexual than heterosexual.” See
also K. Jay et al, The Gay Report:
Lesbians and Gays Speak Out About Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles 275
(1979) (This study by homosexual activists and researchers revealed that 73% of
homosexuals surveyed had sex with boys sixteen to nineteen years of age or
younger); Eugene Abel et al., “Self-Reported Sex Crimes of Nonincarcerated
Pedophiliacs, 2 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 3,5 (19877) “Child
molestation, by comparison, was a relatively infrequent crime occurring from an
average of 23.2 times by a pedophile (nonincest) with female targets to an
average of 281.7 times by a pedophile (nonincest) whose targets were males”; R.
Blanchard et al, “Fraternal Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles,” 29
Archives Sexual Behav. 464 (2000); K. Freund & R I. Watson, “The
Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders
Against Children: An Exploratory Study,”
18 Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
34, 34-43 (1992).
[xi]
K. Jay et al, The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gays Speak Out About Sexual
Experiences and Lifestyles 275 (1979).
[xii]
K. Freund & R. I. Watson, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and
Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory
Study," Sex & Marital Therapy
18 (1992): 34-43
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