Where Do These Nasty Stereotypes Come From?

Where Do These Nasty Stereotypes Come From?

You know, the one about how gay men are desperate to have sex with minors. Hmmmm. Maybe from Portland's openly gay mayor, first having lied about his relationship with a teenager, now admitting that he started seeing this boy at 17--but he waited until he was 18 to have sex with him. From January 20, 2009 Fox News:

PORTLAND, Ore. -- More than a year after denying it, the newly elected mayor of Portland has admitted having a sexual relationship with a male teenager in 2005.

Sam Adams, who is openly gay, acknowledged the relationship in a statement Monday, after the Willamette Week newspaper broke the story on its Web site.

In Washington, D.C., for the inauguration, Adams will cut his trip short to issue a public apology Tuesday afternoon in Portland, said Wade Nkrumah, his spokesman.

Adams, 45, said he and the teen were together in the summer of 2005, shortly after the teenager turned 18 in June, and when Adams was a city commissioner. The revelations come nearly a year and a half after Adams and the teen said rumors of a sexual relationship between them were false.

"I lied at the time because I was afraid that people would believe untrue rumors being circulated by an undeclared mayoral opponent that I had broken a law involving sexual relations with a minor. But this is not a good excuse," Adams said in his statement.

Adams was 42, according to this account at Oregon Live.

Regular readers know that I have been gathering data for some time that suggests that homosexuality (at least for some) is the result of childhood sexual abuse. I've also noticed over the years that some people who were victims of childhood sexual abuse tend to be "frozen" at a pretty immature emotional level. Then think of the gay men you have known who behave like vicious parodies of teenage girls (and obviously, many gay men do not do so)--almost like someone is still frozen at the age that something bad happened. And then you can see why a 42 year old man would be going out with a teenager: someone hasn't emotionally matured.