"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:wIt0b.201425$YN5.140717@sccrnsc01...
I would say the odds of a woman "preying" upon a teenage boy are an order
of
magnitude smaller than the reverse example (i.e.: A man preying on a
teenage
girl.). According to my wife (a Girl Scout leader, BTW), most women just
ain't wired "that way". (I'll have to take her word for it.)

Why would you have to take her word for it? Does she know most women? How
is her position as a Girl Scout leader relevant?

As far as wiring goes, most men aren't either. Most people in our society
are able to resist temptations that fall outside of socially acceptable
behavior. Beyond that, there are ample examples of women preying on teenage
boys (Mary Kay Letourneau being a recent high-profile case).

Of course, our society being what it is, the boys don't usually think of
themselves as "prey". As enlightened as we'd like to think we are, boys are
still encouraged to have sex while girls are told they are sluts for even
thinking about it. But that doesn't diminish the fact that it is, indeed,
preying.

Men, on the other hand, I understand. It would be sheer folly to assume
that a man, left alone with a teenage girl, overnight, wouldn't be
tempted.

Left alone? What kind of arrangements do they have in your Boy Scout troop?
If male leaders and scouts are pairing up and sleeping alone together, I'd
submit that you have bigger problems than the question of homosexuals on
your hands.

Further, I'm a bit curious why you think you understand gay men. Do you
understand what it feels like to be attracted to another man? To be
attracted ONLY to other men? If you cannot understand that, what makes you
think you can understand how a gay man would feel around a teenage boy?

Would most men ACT on this temptation? No, of course not. But I'd bet
you
a hundred bucks that a higher percentage of men than women would...

I'd take that bet. After all, the victim is much more likely to be
compliant in the case of a woman trying to act on her temptation (due to our
screwed up sexual double-standard, in which teenage boys are encouraged to
have sex while girls are discouraged). In any case, the question is not one
of "how many", but rather of "whether". If you are concerned about the
potential for abuse, you need to look at the individual.

Furthermore, there are far more women involved in Boy Scouts than there
would ever be gay men; if you feel that gay men are a risk, simply because
they would be "tempted", then you should be arguing to ban all female
involvement with the Scouts as well.

Finally, I'm totally baffled by your statement that "you are more likely
to
find a heterosexual male willing to prey on a teenage boy than you are to
find a homosexual male willing to do the same." In what way would a
HETEROsexual male be likely to prey upon a teenage boy?

Pedophilia is not about gender preference. It's about preying on children.
Most pedophiles are heterosexual. Furthermore, just as all but a very few
heterosexuals are pedophiles, so are just a very few homosexuals pedophiles.

If you think that just because a man is heterosexual, you can be assured he
won't want to have sex with your boy, you are dangerously ill-informed.
Your bafflement reveals a hazardous gap in your awareness of sexual deviance
and its risk to you and your family. It's the same as if you had the belief
that putting a second engine on an airplane ensures that it couldn't be
crashed.

Pete