[trailboss800]

I've come to believe over many years of study and working with people in homosexual lifestyle, that an identity disorder exists. For a child to participate in the act, he/she must disassociate from who they were actually created to be due to the repulsive nature of what is being forced on them. This creates a state within the child where the conscience is blunted and the child forms a defense system which says “what happened to me is OK and I'm not repulsive.” This newly formed defense system is now required to prevent reality shock of what has truly taken place.

[scottjewell]

Yes, this is the syndrome which NARTH seeks to cure. Of course, gay advocacy will have none of it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d agree as making logical sense, that the person is alienated from his normal self identity by the unpleasantness of what he experienced — perhaps tagging false shame onto what ought to be a real self identity. I was simply positing an additional animating principle in the mix, serving as a kind of false hero or hijacker to what you point out as being a weakly (if at all) defended personality. It would pretend to be a friend, but it’s an enemy, a prankster — in theological terms, a devil. A very tricky and cruel devil. And the person probably hasn’t the foggiest clue why he is so devoted to it; it defies his reason even if he is a genius. (They say the last thing a fish notices is water.)

I’d expect this sort of thing also to crop up in dysfunctional families where the parents, perhaps in spite of themselves, carry on cruelly and the child is so sensitive that he is easily hurt by that.