[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

A child has no sexual orientation...
Young children have no concept about sexuality...

1. Young children will almost entirely identify a "preference" (ignoring adult connotations of sexual activity) for their own sex, thereby inflating homosexual numbers and maybe allowing sociologists to say we are all "born" homosexual and then socialized at puberty.

2. Once identified as homosexual pre-puberty, they can be steered in that direction by more overt role-playing, sexual education emphasizing that stated "preference", early homosexual experience with peers and adults and defending that early "choice" against attempts at "socialization" by parents (authority), peers (defined as "bullying") and even confusing the "religious right" (homosexuality means fewer abortions).

[Tax-chick]

Excellent points.

[wintertime]

Young children will almost entirely identify a “preference”
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I agree. There is a distinct difference between preference and sexual orientation.

As a female child growing up in the fifties, I would have preferred being a boy. Hey! Why not? It was manifestly evident that boys had more fun.

For example, if a child had to choose between cub scouts or brownies, only a idiot would have chosen brownies.