do they really? you must be the most patient and curious person in the world to have listened to almost every gay.

most of our knowledge about cultures that practiced pederasty is of an anecdotal character, for what it's worth. people explained over and over again, across thousands of years, on opposite sides of the world, that this is the observed nature of the phenomenon. they never entered it into postgres or published it into elsevier. that's the kind of data you prefer. again, you collect exceptions to this and fixate on them the way that a woman does.

the most frustrating part of this is listening to people asserting that things have happened to me that never happened. people say that being molested makes you gay, and all gays were molested, with the most religious conviction, the way that a child insists that chocolate cows come from chocolate milk and santa brings the presents.

it's part of an argumentative strategy to try and prove that homosexuality is preventable. by anchoring homosexuality to a crime with a victim you can frame homosexuality as a problem that needs to be solved. in doing so you characterize innocent homosexuals as predators, even if you follow it up with an empty "not all x are like that" gesture. it's completely dishonest.

since you like anecdotes so much, I only know one guy who likes guys and was molested by an adult. but the adult was a woman.