I'm pretty sure that "first world countries" in fact have exceptionally high corruption and that so-called transparency laws are just a smokescreen for it.
In any case, the counterargument presumes no such thing; the counter-argument is simply that you cannot make a general argument from the assumption that unknown data points are not only extant but consistent.
That is quite a wild statement and you should know better - after all, it implies that places like China, Russia, Egypt or Pakistan are less corrupt and produce more reliable statistics than the western countries, at least in something as specific as the amount of pedophiles they know of.
However, no matter what has lead to this, by all means Afghanistan, and not even the whole thing, but certain cultures in it, works differently from most of the world in that regard, and that is an obvious fact, and there has to be some kind of underlying mechanism, biological and/or cultural, that makes it so.
Again, because the age threshold for being more vulnerable is much lower than you think. People know they are gay when they are very young, a lot under 11. And they know they are different, and this has been exploited by predators.
Of course any age is vulnerable, but not in the way you are implying. Just like 8 year old drag queens, 7 year olds on twitter being deeply interested in healthcare law or climate policy, and vegan cats, chances are there's a manipulative adult behind that odd phenomenon.
What you are indirectly implying here is that homosexual sexual maturity works by quite different rules than the ordinary heterosexual kind, with considerably lowered age ranges.
Again, no, you wouldn't. Just feeling different can be exploited. Because someone who feels different might respond differently to the first move of the predator. And I could go on.
On top of that, the age at which kids do sexual stuff can be absurdly young because of the lack of any understanding. The most extreme example I know of is that they have some (albeit disputed) evidence of a fetus masturbating in the womb. But there are other examples, all of which are gross but happen.
Oddities of biology and spurious evidence usually found by people who have a very dark axe to grind in the topic aren't very convincing when it comes to statistical data that's supposed to represent the whole population.
Yes, suggestion by very improperly functioning caretakers can get kids to emulate sexual behaviors, even if not out of their own natural tendency, but as an act of mimicry, well before puberty, but that's a thing that's not supposed to be enabled, tolerated or accepted.
Look up any stories about people who knew they were gay and what age they were when they did. I knew something was up with me in first grade, I had no idea what, but I knew something was different. Simply watching disney princess movies and wanting to be the 'wrong' person cause you get with the same gender character is common.
That pictures another not really politically correct theory - homosexuality has wider effects on a person that merely "same as hetero in all ways except same sex attraction".
Look at this study, for example, which shows different choices of play:
www.science.org
(Also, note the guy at the bottom whining because he wants non-comforming to gender roles to mean they should be trans. This notion is causing the erasure of gays and lesbians in favor of trans kids.)
Mere 10 point statistical difference with parental self reporting is not nearly as conclusive as you imply.
Also, the trans form-fitting goes beyond even "gay and lesbian erasure", there are plenty of heterosexual women with a tomboyish backstory who are shocked at imagining how would they be treated if they were kids under the trans-advocate institutions:
Compact Magazine, a radical American journal
compactmag.com
This might be young enough I could see the influence in the other direction (i.e. playing with gender non-conforming toys as a young kid might cause gayness instead of gays play with gender non-) perhaps, though I haven't read the paper, they may have a reason they believe or don't believe that.
The bigger question is, how well do the numbers add up? Is the percentage of non-conforming kids multiplied by percentage of non conforming kids turning out to be some predicted kind of sexual minority later on anywhere close to explaining the later population of such minorities?
Interviewing? Just look for animals visibly enacting opposite sex exclusive behavior consistently throughout its life. I don't know of any evidence for this, which I know people would be crowing about if it existed, but maybe I missed it?
You have missed a lot of drama then, of course they claim that those exist.
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No, but it isn't evidence for it, which is my point. You have not evidence for your positive position outside of correlation, and I've given evidence against it
Your evidence against doesn't exclude such a mechanisms, it's just evidence that it's not the only mechanism.
First, you haven't shown prevalence. People have a preference far before they actually awaken to sexuality. People
And as the study shows, the reliability of that preference for predicting future sexuality is not very good.
You might have a point if there was any success, even rarely, but there was no success. Being gay isn't a trauma, and so really isn't fixable.
That is a blanket assumption. Just because it's not a trauma for some, doesn't mean it's the same for all.
Why is there little success and if any, it's widely questioned (and it's not that there is exactly zero, there is plenty of controversy about that, and massive differences of opinion internationally)?
Whether as the plaintiff in a recently filed lawsuit or a central figure in a new documentary, therapist Christopher Doyle portrays himself as both healer and healed. “The same-sex desires, j…
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A report cuts against the belief that it is impossible for people who believe they are the opposite sex to overcome their gender dysphoria.
spectator.org
Even adults can get nasty lifelong psychological disorders, obviously the same goes for children with such experiences.
By using a combination of treatments and type of therapy, people can alleviate symptoms of PTSD over time. Read more about PTSD here.
www.stepstorecovery.com
Can Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Be Cured?
Unfortunately, even with the many treatment methods available, there is no cut-and-dry cure for PTSD. Most people with PTSD do have to live with the disorder forever; however, by developing the right coping strategies and prioritizing their mental health, they can begin to feel more confident in themselves and their actions. By using a combination of treatments and type of therapy, people can alleviate symptoms of PTSD over time.
If even bog standard PTSD can be only alleviated, and not fully cured, why would you expect that childhood trauma induced sexual disorders need to be fully curable for them to be considered disorders?
And the other side of the coin is that conversion therapy was often done by people with an axe to grind from the other side of the barricade, often out of religious motivations, with little in the way of qualifications in psychological therapy, so statistically they would ruin success rates even if it was hard but doable.
Oh, fetishes and abuse in general definitely work this way, though not always (ant that's what pedophilia is, not an orientation). Associate something enough with pleasure (even forced, unwilling pleasure), and it'll get ingrained into your mind.
But that's separate from sexuality. These guys aren't having long term relationships with gay adults. They are preying on boys while being straight in their adult lives.
There are many things gay adults are known for, but stable long term relationships between them definitely aren't one of them.
In the current western institutions obsessed about checking their diversity quotas, it's quite possible people like that would be pressured into recognizing themselves as some kind of LGBT+ even if not L\G, which then leads to inevitable conclusion that it's quite possible for there to exist a number of "true" homosexuals caused to be such by in-utero hormonal anomalies, and some number of "confused" homosexuals caused by some combination of manipulation and inappropriate upbringing, the latter number being far more malleable and changing with more and less intentional environmental factors, and being the mythical "variable" part in all the "rising LGBTQ youth" statistics, with the former number being the "floor".