Hi
@Athena.
My bad. You did indeed catch me out getting my statistics muddled up. I claimed that they included the supposed fact that 80% of male sex abuse victims went on to become sex offenders themselves. I should have realised that this figure was ludicrously high. What the statistics
ACTUALLY said was that 80% of male victims ended up getting divorced in later life, which is a very different thing.
If we were to liken our little debate here to a boxing match, to be caught making such an error is tantamount to being on the ropes and getting a good pummelling and hoping that the bell rings in time....lol.
Anyway, yes. The information I linked to referenced male and female sex offences against children of all ages, and not specifically post-pubescent ones. You have acknowledged that such crimes against younger children are equally appalling whatever the gender of the abuser and that female ones are not always treated with the same harshness when they should be in those cases, which you call a "travesty". We have no disagreement there, really, which made my third link rather redundant. It does seem in fact that with pre-pubescent victims and their abusers, you and I actually have no significant disagreement at all. It is only around the area of post-pubescent alleged victims that our debate really should revolve.
And yes, the suicide of the teen described in my first link was just one suicide, and we all know that a single example is not statistically significant enough to even begin to prove anything.
I also fully appreciate that not all adult therapeutic claims of abuse victimhood during childhood are acccurate or fully truthful, though there is no reason to suppose that males claiming abuse at the hands of females are likely to be being markedly less truthful than other alleged victims. It has become well known that those parts of our brains dealing with imagination and with memories, can become crosswired, and that some therapeutic techniques used in the past have facillitated this - thoughts and ideas being communicated to the person undergoing therapy that are then imagined but percieved as memories.This phenomenon has become known as False Memory Syndrome....
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...sCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
http://journals.cambridge.org/actio...e=online&aid=9001991&fileId=S079096670000389X
But nevertheless, the numbers of alleged cases of female abusers reported by adult victims later does appear to be much higher than the conviction rate. And this can only mean that either these accounts are much more likely to be untruthful than other accounts, or that such crimes are under-reported and/or under-prosecuted at the time when they are occurring, or some combination thereof. And most professionals in the field do now recognise that there is a significantly higher level of under-reporting in cases of male victims of female abuse.
You have made a whole heap of assumptions about female abuse of teenage boys often being less serious because the boys themselves are intrinsically more up for it to start with, and thus need much less persuasion or manipulation. You have presented no stats to back this up whatsoever. Nevertheless I do suspect that there is some truth to this assumption.
But it can be seriously overplayed. Because teen males themselves will often go around giving it large about how "up for it" they are. Never in a million years will most of them admit to being traumatised by any adult sexual experience. Far more likely to go around bragging about it. And - just as an example - very few 14 year old boys will admit to not having already lost their virginity, and will make false claims to their peers about the time they lost theirs. Yet statistically speaking, most 14 year old males are in truth still virgins. There is a massive element within the male psyche, particularly marked in young teenage males where sexuality is concerned, where the need to be seen as at least as much of a man as the next guy is strongly felt.This "macho imperative" is quite a pronounced one at that age. Thus, they would probably often go out of their way to downplay and hide any actual trauma and big up their own involvement at the time, and only be more honest about it later.
But I will limit my response to that for now, and look a bit later to see if I can find any stats or info that relates specifically to male and female sexual abuse of post-pubescent teenage children.
I will remain open-minded on this one, though, and open to persuasion, so it is possible for you to change my mind with a good argument backed by evidence. In fact, it is even possible that when I find the time to look for more statistical evidence myself, I might find stuff that adjusts my views before they even get to you, lol. I have no emotional or ideological investment in my current stance, other than an assumption of equality before the law.