From an expert witness statement prepared by Stephen Green for Raj Bhachoo
in the Camberwell Green Magistrates Court 7th March 2012
2 LINKS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALITY AND CHILD MOLESTATION
The research
The Home Office carried out research into sexual offences for the year 1973, and has subsequently published a number of other studies: (Roy Walmsley and Karen White “Sexual Offences, Consent and Sentencing” HMSO 1979 pp 56-62 and “Supplementary Information on Sexual Offences, Consent and Sentencing” Home Office 1980).
In 1973, there were 1,627 convictions for gross indecency between males, and 3% of these were for indecencies with boys under 16 (which technically should have charged as indecent assaults). There were a further 392 convictions under the Indecency with Children Act, in which the age of the victim is by definition under 14. Of those cases tried at Crown Court level, a staggering 55% were offences against boys, and 45% against girls.
Comparing convictions for buggery and attempted buggery with under age boys (and in the same year there were 21 convictions for buggery offences with females, and 4 with animals) with figures for unlawful sexual intercourse, that is, sexual intercourse with under-age girls, the convictions for buggery offences were 170 compared with 768 convictions for unlawful sexual intercourse. There were in fact 135 offences against boys under 16, and 35 against boys between 16 and 20. The offences against young males are disproportionate, being some 18% of the total, a high figure when it is considered that the offences have been perpetrated by the 1.5% of the male population who are active homosexuals.
For indecent assault in the year in question, there were 802 convictions for assaults on males, and 3006 for assaults on females. Ignoring for a moment the age of the victim, the assaults on males represent 21% of all convictions. If we distinguish between ages of victim for the homosexual offences, we find the following:
Age of victim: 0-4 5-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-20 21+
% of cases: 3.1 32.5 18.6 15.8 18.1 4.9 2.8 4.2
And for the female victims:
Age of victim: 0-4 5-9 10-12 13-15 16-17 18-20 21+
% of cases: 3.2 24.8 15.4 26.2 7.1 7.8 15. 5
In other words, offences against boys under 16 were 88.1% of the homosexual offences and those against girls under 16 were 69.6% of the heterosexual offences. So we might calculate that a homosexual man is (21/79)x(98.5/1.5)x(88.1/69.6) = 23 times more likely to interfere with someone under 16 than is a heterosexual. But this is not the whole picture. If heterosexuality is the ability to enter into a complete loving and sexual relationship exclusively with an adult of the opposite sex, then the men convicted of the offences on girls under 16 were not up to the mark either.
Offences against boys in 1980s disproportionately high
The Home Office subdivided the classifications for sexual offences for even numbered years in the 1980s. The statistics show similar results to the 1973 study: In the four years considered, there was a total of 4,000 indecent assaults on males and females aged 16 and older. Of these, 9% were on males. However, the total for indecent assaults on males and females under the age of 16 was 12,000, and in these offences against children, 21% were committed against boys. Comparing buggery and attempted buggery with boys under the age of sixteen with unlawful sexual intercourse with girls under the age of sixteen, the homosexual offences were 9% of the total. In the case of gross indecency with children, that is, with children under 14, 46% of all offences were committed against boys.
American homosexual activist Tom Reeves said:
Sex between women and girls may or may not be widespread, but little has been written about it. Sex between men and boys, on the other hand, is widely practised to the joys and benefits of those involved. It has become a centre of attention in the straight media where it is associated with molestation, abuse, runaways and hustling. It is all of these things at times, but it is more often quiet, enduring, reciprocal and certainly voluntary. Such sex is a central feature of gay life … gay men fuck and suck teenage boys regularly. (Tom Reeves in Daniel Tsang (ed) “The Age Taboo” Alyson Publications and Gay Mens Press 1981 p25 (reprinted from “Fag Rag”))
Homosexual bookshops promote paedophile books
The infamous Paedophile Information Exchange was set up by adult active male homosexuals and always remained a coalition of those in the ‘cult of youth’ who were sexually attracted to adolescents and those who were sexually attracted specifically to pre-pubertal children. The two categories are sometimes distinguished by the descriptions ‘pederast’ and ‘paedophile’ respectively but they are usually lumped together as ‘paedophiles’ in the public mind.
Paedophile material and books on paedophilia are widely available from all “gay book” stockists. The Gay Liberation Front Information Service publications list at one time included eleven books and pamphlets on paedophilia, most of them under that specific heading, and including three published by the Paedophile Information Exchange itself.
The popular homosexual bookshop, “Gay’s the Word,” carried a glowing report in its bi-monthly review of a book of paedophile memoirs, where sexual acts were described in intimate detail, 16 sold “Understanding Paedophilia” published by the Paedophile Information Exchange, and made the extraordinary paedophile book “Betrayal of Youth” briefly available on its shelves. Richie McMullen’s autobiography about his experiences as a rent boy was second in the gay best-seller lists, and the paedophile books by Michael Davidson and others are hugely popular.
The so-called “Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement” promoted a bizarre book on paedophilia by one Parker Rossman. “Sexual Experience between Men and Boys” (Maurice Temple Smith, Hounslow 1985 p17) chronicles tales from various parts of the world and has sections which seem to consist entirely of stories in which a male stranger walks off with a brown-skinned boy with the parents’ consent, although Rossman’s informers are usually very coy about what physically takes place in such cases.
Essex University don praises paedophile books
Mr Rossman deals with paedophilia from, so it is stated by L&GCM, a totally non-judgmental point of view. A strong libertarian streak is indeed highly visible for over two hundred pages of input from pederasts and their boys. Those of his conclusions which concern counselling boys through early homosexual phases and into heterosexuality are nearly sensible, and seem strangely unconnected with what went before, but it is clear early on that Rossman is arguing against “repression” of sexual feelings and against what he calls “stringent laws” in sexuality. I do not think I have done him an injustice, for he says at one point: “It may be that nature intended older males to tutor adolescent boys in sex, and unconscious or repressed pederast or homosexual tendencies are intended to stimulate an interest in such tutoring.” 18 This latter statement of Mr Rossman’s is unsupported in his book by any evidence whatsoever. “Sexual Experience between Men and Boys” received the following praise from Ken Plummer in Gay News:
Any study that can take adult-child sexuality out of the zone of shrieking horror and place it in the demystified zone of everyday experience must be welcomed. (Ken Plummer “Gay News” from L&GCM on a flier)
The same reviewer, who is sociologist Dr Kenneth Plummer of Essex University, sent a “warm message of support” for “Betrayal of Youth,” and, in company with Nettie Pollard (qv) and Professor Donald West (qv), also read, made suggestions and then praised “Paedophilia the Radical Case” receiving “heartfelt thanks” from its author, Paedophile Information Exchange Chairman Tom O’Carroll. Malcolm Macourt of the helplines, involved as he was with the Tyneside Gay Teenagers’ Group, also finds Rossman, O’Carroll, and “The Age Taboo” edited by American paedophile Daniel Tsang “useful.” 20
When another sociologist, Dr Brian Taylor of Sussex University, edited his book “Perspectives on Paedophilia,” Dr Plummer contributed an article detailing the history of PIE “from below.” Brian Taylor adopted the pseudonym “Humphrey Barton” when he was research director of the PIE magazine “Understanding Paedophilia,” being co-opted to its executive committee. Another contributor to his book was a PIE EC member from 1976-77: Peter Righton, who was Director of Education at the National Institute for Social Work. He contributed a chapter entitled “the adult.” He too is quoted in praise of Tom O’Carroll’s book.
Peter Righton was arrested in May 1992 and convicted for possessing indecent material. He told the Daily Mail that he was openly homosexual and lived with a headmaster of a school for disturbed children. Mr Righton, whose past membership of PIE is a matter of public record, was described in the Daily Mail article as “the leading authority on council residential care of children.”
Family seen as ‘poisonous’
The American activist Professor Tom Reeves boasted in “The Age Taboo” of indecencies with several of a class of teenagers whom he taught in Baltimore:
‘the New Right is right: we are after the sons of straight America. We are on the lookout for them at all times and ever ready to support their first attempts to get free, their need for love and their potential for courage and self-expression. We stand ready to be seduced, and we catch that “please-seduce-me” look in boys’ eyes on street corners, in movie-houses, parks and pinball arcades – yes, even on playgrounds and in classrooms. We assist their jailbreaks from the plastic and poisonous family webs in slums or suburbia, and we let them live with us when possible.’ (loc cit p28)
We need to remember that the homosexual movement as a whole has at its core the overturning of traditional Christian morality in the family and sexual arenas. Those campaigning for sex with children have merely taken that intention to its logical conclusion. The early age at which boys are often initiated into homosexual activity is confirmed by a British writer:
‘Many boys have been sexually active through casual contacts in public lavatories or in relationships with friends or relatives since the age of 10 or 11’, (Anna Durell in Bruce Galloway (ed) “Prejudice and Pride” Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1983 p23)
whilst an American survey carried out by two homosexual authors revealed that 73% of homosexuals had at some time had sex with boys 16-19 or younger. 28 One reported “My lover and I are into many young boys 13-18 years old …” (Magnuson Roger J “Are ‘Gay Rights’ Right?” Straitgate Press, Minneapolis 1985 p18)
A speaker at a rally in Minneapolis held by NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love [sic] Association, said:
‘There’s not a boy out here … who does not need oral sex right now. I have never met a boy who did not enjoy being given oral sex.’ (Magnuson Roger J op cit p18 quoting from “Twin Cities Christian” 05/07/84)
Whether paedophile activity is as much a part of regular lesbian experience is a matter of some contention amongst its writers:
In general, women are given more freedom than men within patriarchy to love across generations. But I don’t see the correlative of the man/boy relationship existing in lesbian culture as I know it. There’s a lot of cross-generational contact among lesbians … but they’re mainly as friendships or as mentor relationships. (Kate Millett in Tsang op cit p81)
We can conclude that male paedophilia is more prevalent than female, and that any discussion of homosexuality which does not involve an analysis of paedophilia is lacking in depth. According to a member of the editorial board of the “children’s liberation” magazine “Minor Problems,” (a PIE offshoot) a refusal to discuss paedophilia:
‘involved – and still involves – a wholesale denial of the reality of many gay men’s ( and some lesbians’) relationships … The main Dutch gay liberation organisation, COC, vehemently protested its members’ imperviousness to the attractions of young boys – at the same time it was publishing boy-love poetry, stories, and erotic portraits of pre-adolescent males.’ (Roger Moody in Tsang op cit p150)
Homosexual activity was legalised in New Zealand in 1986. A number of radio shows promoting homosexuality now goes out, that on Access Radio being hosted by one Neil McKenzie. In March 1991 McKenzie sympathetically interviewed on air, for the second time in a year, two men claiming to represent the “Aotearoa Man-Boy Love Association” (AMBLA). [Aotearoa is the politically correct name for New Zealand.] “Jack” said that the men made contact with boys in “very public places, shopping malls, large supermarket-type shops, bus stops,” whilst “Alexander” added “Some of us are more successful than others.” (“New Truth” (New Zealand) 05/04/91 p5)
Denying that there were any “boy molesters” in AMBLA, Jack said: “A boy lover is a man who loves a boy.” Alexander differentiated between two groups within the organisation, those “who are attracted to post-pubescent boys, say from the age of 13 to 18,” and a group of “paedophiles interested or attracted to boys pre-pubescent.” The local paper reported: “McKenzie rounded off the radio show by telling anyone who was interested that they could make contact with AMBLA through a post office box in Auckland.”
In 1975 the delegates at the second annual conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality held in Sheffield were challenged by Keith Hose of the Paedophile Information Exchange to stand if they could honestly say they had no sexual interest in children. According to the local paper, one third of the 1,000 delegates remained in their seats. (Sheffield Morning Telegraph 26/08/75) A figure of 33% of adult homosexuals being sexually interested in children – as PIE defined them – is broadly consistent with most studies. On the last day of the conference, CHE executive member Trevor Locke resigned from both the EC and from CHE itself in protest at the defeat of his proposal to set up a separate branch for teenagers. He only withdrew his resignation from CHE later when the conference voted not to impose a lower age limit for membership.
Nevertheless, despite strong support for paedophiles or for abolition of the age of consent in CHE conferences regularly during the seventies, it took the election in 1980 of a new “chairperson” of CHE, Michael Jarrett, Professor of Architecture at University College Cardiff, for the abolition of all ages of consent to become CHE policy. Professor Jarrett identifies paedophiles, in a foreword to a major homosexual campaigning book published in 1983, as a group “oppressed” by:
‘prejudice, violence, ignorance, biased lawmaking and the denial of basic civil rights’. (Michael Jarrett in “Prejudice and Pride” ed Bruce Galloway, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1983 preface p vi)
Condemnation of paedophilia from “ordinary” homosexual activists is rare. The Campaign for Homosexual Equality elected Leo Adamson, a past executive member of PIE, to its own executive, and he was set to work – on matters relating to consent law – in its office. To CHE was affiliated the paedophile magazine Minor Problems, of which Adamson was a member of the editorial collective certainly until it ceased open publication in 1986. In May 2011, Adamson was convicted for his part in a South London paedophile ring. (South London Press 20th May 2011).
In 2009, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality was disaffiliated from the human rights organisation Liberty, over a motion which called for a time limit on reporting child sex abuse. (Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13280.html .)
The campaigning of CHE has since the 1990’s been superseded by Peter Tatchell’s ‘Outrage’, which campaigns for a lowering to 14 (or even abolition) of the current age of consent of 16, and the much larger Stonewall, which is far more politically astute about minimum ages for sexual activity, merely congratulating itself on having achieved ‘equality’ between the heterosexual and homosexual ages of consent. Most people would regard a person of fourteen, or even sixteen, as a child. Nevertheless, Peter Tatchell’s campaigning on this and many other issues helps Stonewall appear reasonable when asking for changes in the law which might otherwise appear ridiculous.
It would be stretching credulity to imagine that today’s homosexual men are any less interested in adolescent boys than their predecessors. Within them is a minority who prefer pre-pubertal partners, but all the evidence shows that boys above the age of puberty are considered ‘fair game’ by homosexual men.
