02Jan05a No cycle exist (Frits)

Yahoo Health, Friday 4 January 2002
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020104/hl/molestation_1.html

Most Molested Boys Don't Molest Others as Adults

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A "cycle'' of child sexual abuse seems to exist for only a minority of male victims, but not at all for female victims, British researchers report.

Dr. I. Kolvin and colleagues from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London reviewed the cases of 843 people attending a psychotherapy clinic for sex offenders. Two women and 225 men were found to be child abusers, out of a total of 96 women and 747 men.
Forty-one of the women were victims of sexual abuse, one of whom became a perpetrator, the investigators report in the British Journal of Psychiatry for December. Seventy-nine of 135 male victims became perpetrators.
Homosexual men and transvestites were significantly less likely to be perpetrators than heterosexual men and men who were not transvestites. The authors observed no significant associations between status as a child molester and voyeurism, fetishism, obscene phone calls or other sexually deviant acts.
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SOURCE: British Journal of Psychiatry 2001;179:482-494, 495-497.