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[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I feel confident that more straight dudes are pedophiles than gay dudes.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

Homosexuals are overrepresented in studies on paedophiles, but in absolute numbers there would probably be more straight peaedophiles as there are far more straight people than gay people

Edit: the most recent ratio I found was approx 1.4:1 hetero:homo pedos. Pretty wild considering only 2% of the population is homosexual

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I read some studies about that recently and many of those studies were done in the 1980s and 1990s which I feel was a more biased environment for these particular types of studies. Do you have any links to studies done in the last 15 years?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

More biased? Hall & Hall 2007 is the only I recall a date for. Have you tried searching? If so, perhaps the lack of recent studies is due to the taboo or potential career suicide of correlating homosexuals and paedophilia now

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

I have tried searching, I guess it goes both ways. In the old days, homophobia was in the air, so that skews studies. Today, anti homophobia could potentially skew studies.

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