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Those blurbs quoted above mix definitions, defining "homosexual" by the activity in one half and defining it by self-identity in the other. Perhaps both sides mix the two according to their desired conclusions. I'd have to look at all of it again to be sure. Personally, I'd say that self-identity should be secondary to actual behavior. To claim that any act is contrary to desire is to say that act is coerced, forced, or obligatory. It could, I suppose, be secondary in that the first choice is not available (as in prison) but it doesn't eliminate the desire factor. I do not think that any of that applies to either the child molesters or that category that gays try to define out of existence, pederasts.
I also go back to the point that, whatever it means to the perpetrator, same-sex molesting is homosexual to the victim. Since victims often become perpetrators, that factor should at least complicate the conclusion. But nowhere in the analysis I read is that weighed.
Deciding why a perp perpetrates is not an exact science and the answers are likely varied. But to base broad conclusions on the feelings or "self-identity" of the perpetrator -- whose status as a child molester makes his mental disorder irrefutable -- while ignoring observable facts, such as the same-sex nature of the act, or the same-sex conflicts it might ignite in the victim, removes the science from the study and just makes it an opinion.
And none of this acknowledges the fact that humans are biologically and anatomically formed for heterosexual sex only. Homosexuality is a abberation of that. Minus that premise, no analysis will be based on truth.

I'm signing off for the day, Josh. I'll check your reply tomorrow.

You're going off on tangents; I'm not sure how to respond.

If your goal is to protect a child from molesting, is it better to know how the perpetrator behaves sexually before he's caught or after?

If man has a wife and children, does this mean that he will not molest a child of the same-sex? Does it do any good to call him "homosexual" after he's molested the child?