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In Reply to: Re: Re Catholic Church & Abuse/Joseph posted by goth88 on August 17, 2002 at 17:50:37:
Hi, Goth!
I guess I'm having a difficult time making my point, and I'm trying not to be too explicit and gross everyone out.
The point I'm making is that the press is featuring this like there are little boys and girls being molested. However, most of the victims I've read about were not girls or little when it happened. They were teenagers.
I'm not trying to say that it is a good thing to rape or molest a teenager. I'm saying that it is a different kind of predator.
A man who goes after a post-pubescent male is comitting a homosexual act.
Here is an article from the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles entitled:
Pedophilia, ephebophilia and the clergy
ephebophilia is defined as an attraction to post pubescent persons, aka teenagers.
http://www.the-tidings.com/2002/0426/coleman.htm
Here is another article from the US Catholic Bishop's Conference website on the same subject.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/kit6.htm
