Page "Anti-LGBT rhetoric" Paragraph 11

Anti-gay groups have often argued that more homosexual men are sexual abusers than heterosexuals, on the grounds that a third of abusers target boys rather than girls.

This is far in excess of the proportion of gay men in the population.

It is thus falsely argued that gay men are disproportionately likely to offend.

However, this argument depends on the equation of male-male pedophilia with homosexual orientation.

According to child abuse specialist Nicholas Groth, this is not the case,