Myth is still assiduously propagated by those who have an immoderate fear of homosexuality. It is completely untrue. Cases of child, or youth, molestation by older homosexuals are uncommon. Far more cases of ‘interference’ with little girls, including their rape, by heterosexual men are reported. Homosexual child molestation is essentially non-violent, in contrast to heterosexual assaults on children. Father Michael Ingram, a Roman Catholic priest and a trained psychologist, has investigated the problem. He studied 91 cases, in which boys under the age of 14 had had sex with a male adult. None of the men had been violent towards the boys, none was disturbed mentally. He found that most of the children, many of whom came from broken homes, had behaved seductively, had ‘regularly come back for more’, had ‘worshipped’ the man, and had been fully willing, co-operative participants. He could find no evidence that any of the boys was hurt in any way; and none that the boy would become homosexual as a result of the experience. In all cases the relationship between the man and the boy had been characterized by gentleness and concern.
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