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Pedophilia And HomosexualityDuring and after the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, pedophiles have attempted to piggyback their own efforts to abolish laws against child sexual abuse on top of the gay rights movement. As part of these efforts, they have often claimed that there is a relationship between pedophilia and homosexuality. While there are heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles, controversial research by Edward Brongersma, Frits Bernard and Rdiger Lautmann is often cited to support the claim that the majority of pedophiles (60-90%) seek relationships with boys. Even if this data is invalidated by new research, so-called "boy lovers" are more visible and better organized than heterosexual pedophilia advocates. Some psychologists have argued that pedophiles with no adult sexuality -- ones attracted only to children, not women or men -- should be considered neither homosexual nor heterosexual. "Boy lovers" initially used umbrella organizations like the International Lesbian and Gay Association to publicize their views on the ability of children to consent to sexual relationships. For a time, this piggyback effect manifested throgh advertisements clearly targeted at "boy lovers", or even articles defending pedophilia in some gay media outlets. As awareness of child sexual abuse increased drastically in the 1980s, at times bordering on mass hysteria, gay rights groups quickly distanced themselves from pedophilia advocates. Since then, they have repeatedly stated that they find child sexual abuse abhorrent and immoral, and relationships between the two camps are mostly invisible, perhaps non-existent. In the 1980s and 1990s, "boy lovers" increasingly left gay rights groups because they no longer felt represented, and joined existing pedophilia advocacy groups or formed new ones. Today, pedophilia advocates are organized internationally in advocacy groups like the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA, United States), AG Pdo (Germany), and Vereniging MARTIJN (Netherlands).
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