[dsc]

"WTF? Those are some "learned journal articles" that I would like to see."

Well, sure. Often a molested child or teenager responds maladaptively to the trauma of molestation, building a structure of defenses that rests on the premise that he is "gay" and this is a good thing to be. He *has* to maintain that the molestation was a positive experience, or the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

If he ever realized that his so-called "sexual orientation" wsa nothing more than a maladaptive response to a terrible trauma, what would he be? Just somebody who had something terrible done to him and let it lead him into disordered sexual behavior.

As long as he can keep his defenses in place, he's a member of a "community," of a self-anointed elite, a morally superior soldier in the front lines of the war against repression and bigotry--I mean, "everybody knows" that "gays" are more sensitive, artistic, creative, intelligent, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Who would want to give all that up just to be a poor schmuck who suffers from same-sex attraction disorder because he was molested?

It's not surprising that many whose entire self-image centers on their homosexual behavior would in memory recast the molestation that precipitated their disorder as an "awakening," a "learning experience," as the first time they "knew what they were" and knew there were others "like them."

Nor, sadly, is it surprising that many of the nutbars who make up the APA would buy into that crap.

But "scientific journals?" Yeah, like Hustler Magazine is a religious tract.

[headsonpikes]

"Who would want to give all that up just to be a poor schmuck who suffers from same-sex attraction disorder because he was molested."

Here be truth.

[murdoog]

I mean, "everybody knows" that "gays" are more sensitive, artistic, creative, intelligent,

You left out "fabulous"