Adult sexual orientation and attraction to underage persons

@article{Groth1978AdultSO,  title={Adult sexual orientation and attraction to underage persons},  author={AN Groth},  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},  year={1978},  volume={7},  pages={175-181},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11477434}}
The possibility emerges that homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia may be mutually exclusive and that the adult heterosexual male constitutes a greater risk to the underage child than does the adult homosexual male.

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