Most pedophiles are men. Why?

rustypouch said:
Because of sexist double standards.

When women rape teenaged boys, many people make comments about 'lucky guy' or 'I wish I and teachers like that when I was a kid.'

Women are not held as accountable as men in this regard. Think of the recent trend of female teachers raping thier students. Debra Favre comes to mind.

If these women do get convicted, they will face much shorter sentences than men convicted of the same crimes. I have bookmarks on my home computer if anyone wants evidences.
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Crossbow said:
Sorry, but I do not think that is true.

I would say that crimes pertaining to female pedophiles are simply not reported as often as are crimes pertaining to male pedophiles, hence the skewed statistics.
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I leave it someone else to do the Googling, etc. here. I'll bet each of you the price of a pineapple if you can support this. I suspect we HEAR about the female teachers because of the "man bites dog" effect in the media. It's news because it's rarer. Yes, sexism. No, not here.
 
rustypouch said:
Because of sexist double standards.

When women rape teenaged boys, many people make comments about 'lucky guy' or 'I wish I and teachers like that when I was a kid.'

Women are not held as accountable as men in this regard. Think of the recent trend of female teachers raping thier students. Debra Favre comes to mind.

If these women do get convicted, they will face much shorter sentences than men convicted of the same crimes. I have bookmarks on my home computer if anyone wants evidences.
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Do you have an explanation for the numbers, not just the social perception?
 
Almo said:
Except there's a very good physical reason why... Sex at least functions regardless of whether or not the woman is aroused. Hard to rape an unaroused male. At least that's what I think.
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Yes.

Why are most child offenders male? Why are most rapists male? I believe both questions have similiar, if not the same, answer.

But I see that most people ignore my post anyway. Ah well.
 
ReFLeX said:
You have no evidence that "girls are exposed to male frontal nudity early on." The opposite is actually true in the media, male frontal nudity is very rare, but there is a ton of female nudity. And that's not because of your made-up idea but because men have been shown to be generally incapable of arousal by the same sex, unlike women.
Whose psychological theory supports this?
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Well, I gave my theory...you gave yours. So let's read on and see what others say.
 
Ryokan said:
Yes.

Why are most child offenders male? Why are most rapists male? I believe both questions have similiar, if not the same, answer.

But I see that most people ignore my post anyway. Ah well.
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I read your post and thought it about it, a little. I read the Wiki entry. I looked for the word in a couple of older dictionaries, and interestingly enough, it doesn't occur in these. (1979, 1976) I think I understand that we use the term too broadly. In the OP, I assumed the subject was "genuine" pedophiles. But I still don't have a clue what your "similar answers" are going to be. Please inform. Sincerely. I'm curious what you mean. I can't intuit what difference the definition makes, in this case, to the male vs. female issue....
 
calebprime said:
But I still don't have a clue what your "similar answers" are going to be. Please inform. Sincerely. I'm curious what you mean. I can't intuit what difference the definition makes, in this case, to the male vs. female issue....
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My main point (which was easily missed, I know) was that lumping pedophiles together with situational child offenders will just get us on the wrong track to answer the question of why more men than women are child offenders. The motives are different.

Men rape more than women do; I don't think anyone is going to dispute that even if I don't have any cold and hard evidence to back it up. But we're setting up a barrier, saying that raping a woman/man and raping a child is different.

For the pedophile, it is different, granted.

But for the situational offender, who is in the majority when it comes to child abuse, it's not. The motive is different from the pedophile. It's just another rape.

ETA : To make it even clearer: Men rape children more than women simply because men rape more than women.
 
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From a sexology site:

"No hard data are available on the prevalence of paraphilias in the general population. People with these disorders tend not to regard themselves as ill, and usually come to the attention of mental health professionals only when their behavior has brought them into conflict with sexual partners or the law. Judging from the large commercial market in paraphilic pornography and paraphernalia, the prevalence in the community is believed to be far higher than that indicated by statistics from clinical facilities. Males are far more prone to paraphilias than females. For cases in which sexual masochism has developed to the point of paraphilia, for example, the sex ratio is estimated to be 20 males for each female. Many other paraphilias are practically never diagnosed in females. Ref 93 There appears to be no difference in the prevalence of paraphilias among homosexuals and heterosexuals."

As I mentioned before, the incidence of paraphila in general is much higher amongst males. Pedophilia is a catalogued type of paraphilia.
 
Dustin said:
I was reading the "Perverted Justice" website and noticed that something like 800 of the perverts they busted were man while only 1 was a woman. Why?Scientific studies have shown that the vast majority of sexual predators are men. Why does anyone think this is? Whenever I go into Chatrooms for instance all I see are people typing "25/m/la young gurlz wanna chat?". I never see "25/f/la young boyz wanna chat?". I never see that.

Why are 99% of pedophiles and sexual predators male?


Discuss.
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We don't know, I guess someone with direct experience need to tell us. Feel free.
 
Iamme said:
Well, I gave my theory...you gave yours. So let's read on and see what others say.
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I didn't give a theory. I disputed yours, with studies that I'm well familiar with. I was asking you which research supports your ideas.

And if you hadn't noticed, most everyone else is completely guessing.
 
Possible reasons (just guesses and may not be true)
1) Females are more psychologically motivated for sex than males thus not requiring physical contact as much
2) Young boys are horny and wouldn't be as likely to complain or suffer mental problems from sex.
3) A young boy would not be likely to perform sexually (get an erection) where if the male is the abuser there is no need for the abused to get erect.
 
Sorry, I was out tonight, but here are some links showing pedophiles are not 99% male:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47895

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/396087p-335733c.html

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/MovingF_Female_perpetrators_Child_sexual_abuse_JUL94.htm

Also note that of they few cases that were convicted, the sentence was minimal compared to what a man in a similar situation would have recieved.

And if you think there is no bias, read the first paragraph of this one:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52044
 
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thanks for elaboration, all.

and as the Penultimate Amazing one has said: numbers, anyone?

The post I quoted the first time around, while speculative, gets to something interesting to me--the seemingly paradoxical behavior of some pedophiles (and even some serial killers, such as Dennis Nilsen) who show a strange tenderness toward their victims. But this is further muddying the discussion....
 
In answer to the OP, what could be simpler? Heterosexual women want sex with big penis's, and they wouldn't get satisfaction from prepubescent male children. Men want 'tight' parts, which are avilable from children. This is appropriate to the definition of pediofilia being "sex with prepubescent children". Sex with nubile 15 year olds isn't pediofilia, that's only 'statutory rape'.

This theory doesn't hold for homosexual perpetrators, but they are less common. The link above involving the NY preschooler sounds like a foriegn object or a finger might have been used, not conventional "hetero sex". That woman probably has the power issues of the usual male rapist- "it's not about sex, it's about power" cliche.
 
Did somebody ask for numbers?

Here's a short-ish article which collates and briefly examines data from a few different studies on female perpertrators of child sexual abuse.

Finkelhor and Russell (1984) report that such studies indicate sexual contact between children and older women is a distinct minority of child-adult sexual contacts. They conclude that "The data collated from a variety of studies seem to support clearly the presumption that most sexual offenses against children are perpetrated by males" (p.177). They believe the best estimates put female perpetrators of sexual abuse at about 20% for male children and 5% for female children. They note, despite ample opportunities for sexual abuse, remarkably few mothers seem to take advantage of them and conclude that the literature "leads fairly persuasively to the conclusion that the traditional view about child molestation as a primarily male deviation is essentially correct. Women do not use children for their own direct sexual gratification very frequently" (p.181).
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Dustin said:
Why are 99% of pedophiles and sexual predators male?
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Why are the vast majority of criminals male?

Could it be for the same reason that the vast majority of warriors, fighters, hunters, and other professions that require more testosterone than sense are male?

Women got babies, and we got violence. Stop dissin' on us for trying to make the best of our pathetic franchise.

:D
 
I have also studied the matter of paedophilia at great length, because I wrote a novel , hoping to win a literary prize (although no word on that yet...). Anyway, what you are also missing is that most of the reported cases of child abuse is done by "predominantly heteresexual males" (ie, that they feel attracted, and even have female companionships, wifes, girlfriends, etc.) mostly on small boys, and that in abou 75% of cases (or even higher, I think) the abuser is a close relative of the abused child, or friend or relative of the child' parents. I can't remember who said it in this thread, but it is correct to say that most paedophiles, are not child abusers, they keep to themselves.
 
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