I know a guy who was molested as a child by an older boy.
He applies for a government job and gets polygraphed. They ask him if he’s had sex with a man. He thinks for a minute and says to himself ‘He wasn’t a man. There was no penetration, so it wasn’t sex, and in any case I didn’t consent.” So he says “No.” The polygraph says he’s lying.
So he explains the whole situation and asks if they can do it again. They do the whole test over again, and when they get to the sex with a man question he says yes. The polygraph says he’s lying.
He told me that the polygraph couldn’t tell if he was lying. It could only tell if he was nervous, and thinking back on that event 15 years later still made him nervous no matter what he said.
He didn’t get the job.
“They ask him if he’s had sex with a man. “
“He didn’t get the job.”
Yeah, but that was 15 years ago. He should try again, if he’s young enough and needs a job. Seriously.