The following is for those who cannot seem to comprehend that sexual abuse can directly lead to something that is now culturally celebrated as being diverse.
I don't think that all homosexuals are pedophiles, but a large number of themselves were abused. They just might not recognize it for what it is. For those that weren't abused gender confusion and family relations (esp. fathers) were the contributing factor.
CAUSE
Approximately one in six boys is sexually abused before age 16.
(Conservative estimate of incidents involving physical contact in U.S. and Canada. See below.)
EFFECT
Anger
Fear
Homosexuality Issues
Helplessness
Isolation and Alienation
Legitimacy
Loss
Masculinity Issues
Negative Childhood Peer Relations
Negative Schemas about People
Negative Schemas about the Self
Problems with Sexuality
Self Blame/Guilt
Shame/Humiliation
My source:
http://www.jimhopper.com/male-ab/ MORE EFFECT
Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Diane K. Shrier reported on "a six year experience in an adolescent medicine clinic in which all medical interviews of adolescent males included questions about sexual molestation. Forty adolescent males reported sexual victimization during their preadolescent years. This study group of forty was compared to a randomly selected age-matched group whose responses were negative to the same questions." ["Sexual Victimization of Boys: Experience at an Adolescent Medicine Clinic," Journal of Adolescent Health Care, Vol. 6, No. 5, (1985), p. 372] Those who had been molested "identified themselves as currently homosexual nearly seven times as often and bisexual nearly six times as often" as those who had not been molested. [ibid., p. 374]
Source:
http://members.aol.com/hawebpage2/news/n0898b.html#N0898B The buzzword homophobia is often blamed for the self-esteem problems in the "homosexual" community. I think sexual abuse is far more likely.
Thank you for the info. I do speak of some experience concerning homosexuals. My homosexual brother died of AIDS at the age of 44 nine years ago.