Why is homosexuality mistakenly associated with pedophilia?

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Exactly. It's pure prejudice, not factual at all. It's the same thing as pointing to one black guy who killed someone and saying that blacks are more likely to be murderers, when in fact if you look at murder statistics, they are exactly the same for whites and blacks. I don't know the specific statistics for child molestation, but I'm willing to bet that if there aren't actually more heterosexual perpetrators than homosexual, it's no more than equal between the two. Gender preference does not equate in any way.

I was sexually abused by older men as a child, but I did not then assume all gay men are pedophiles. I am now one of those gay men, but I do not have a single ounce of sexual interest in children. I believe pedophilia transcends orientation and victimizes both genders equally. It's an impulsive association borne from fear and hate, and it's a real shame.

Perhaps US is another world, but when I read the news around the globe, what becomes evident is that the great majority of rapists, pedophiles and other sexual offenders are heterosexual guys attacking girls. Because we all know how savage some heterosexual guys can become near girls, we are all overprotective of girls around guys, specially when the guys are older than the girls. Tell me, which responsive parent feels totally in peace knowing their female children is around older males that are known to like females? The society raises boys to become sexual predators, as they are praised when they show alpha male like behavior.

So, in short, who associates gay with pedophilia is brain damaged. It's someone who isn't very good at making associations and doesn't know much about how the brain works.

OP asked "Why is homosexuality mistakenly associated with pedophilia?" and John Browning answered why. I don't see what else he could have posted to make himself more clear.

Is it a crime now to explain why things are mistaken?

What's more, if I'm not mistaken, psychologists differentiate very strongly between, for instance, molesting a male child (if one is male) and homosexuality. Psychologically, pedophilia as a non-normative compulsion is not analogous to a sexual orientation at all.

A great deal of child molestation is incest. Our media tends to focus on those people who fit the creepy stranger stereotype -- the lone male handing out the free candy, so to speak. Those incidents where it is a socially maladjusted male picking on children he is not related to fit media expectations of what a child molester looks like. He might as well be Snidely Whiplash. But in the real world, villains don't twirl their moustaches and giggle wickedly over their plans. Just as most acts of violence are inflicted between people who know one another, not by random thugs.

The majority of molestation cases are between fathers and daughters. You can call that heterosexual in nature, if you choose to focus on the sex of those involved, rather than the age, or the family relation.

I don't know how it came about, but the homsexual pedophile stereotype is just... just dumb! And I don't think characters like Herbert the Pervert from family guy help things one bit!