RE: The Pope Assumes Responsibility
April 11, 2014 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 7:45 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 11, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Turn priests into eunuchs, or let them marry and have sex, or something else.
I doubt that will work. Many of these people are primarily or exclusively attracted to minors. I would exprect this to be particular true of the pedophiles who become preists rather than marry.
Regarding the statistic below, the sample is probably biased toward more severe cases because it consists only of the pedophiles who came to seek help (some were convicted already, some weren't), but there could be a similar bias among the pedophiles who become preists.
"Of these 241 interviewees, 57.7% (N = 139) expressed a sexual preference for prepubescent
minors and, thus, were diagnosed as pedophiles, which could be differentiated
into the exclusive type (N = 90) and the non-exclusive type (N = 49)
according to DSM-IV-TR. 27.8% (N = 67) reported a preference for
pubescent minors. For 10.8% (N = 26) a sexual preference toward mature
adults could be established following the clinical interview. Finally, 3.7%
(N = 9) could not be reliably categorized regarding their sexual preference."
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...0903174188