Fridae

So, we are now to believe that early child sexual abuse draws us homos to "risky" behavior later in life, but ONLY us gay men??? Highly doubtful. What about the rest of the human population? I'm so relieved that our lesbian sisters have been spared this statistical curse. I wonder, does child abuse in HETEROsexual men lead to something different? Say, successful leadership roles later in life? Does early child abuse in young heterosexual girls lead to successful political careers later in life? Does anyone know? Have those ground-breaking statistical studies been conducted yet? Or, does the hidden agenda of those with deep financial pockets, sponsoring the Boston College research project above not allow for those significant correlations to be revealed to the world yet? What, I wonder is attracting the heterosexual world to its risky sexual behavior later in life? Maybe we have to wait for the Boston College research sequal for the answer....gee, I'm on pins and needles. It's obvious that a signicantlly rich and powerful interst group is grasping for ways to use science and logic to blame and then eradicate homosexuals from this planet. The world, has once again become flat. I'm SO glad I was not sexually abused as a young boy..unless my self-abuse, as I experimented with masturbation starting at age 10, counts...
hum....

shocking revelation

I wish they would have included in their study the hypothesized mechanism or how past childhood sexual abuse and current sexual behavior/pattern correlate. Maybe by understanding its mechanism, we can somehow 'break the chains'.

Someone ever said to me that some of the gay ppls today "is" gay because of previous child abuse by a male counterpart. I wonder whether there is any logic to this comment?

i was molested by my uncle at the age of 8.

does that explain why i am gay? and will it be an excuse for my 'risky' behaviour?

there are 'no chains to break'.

folks, you are who you live. for the now and the present.

Being a homosexual/ lesbian may not be due to sexual harassment by any adult of both gender in the past. I have known a heterosexual girl who is married to a guy and having children, though she was sexually abused by her father when she was young. So her past does not necessary change her sexual orientation.

I knew my sexual orientation at the age of 5, and until now. No record of sexually harrassment by any person of different genders, but I may be involved in 'risky' behavior. So the logic of sexual harrassment leading to 'fixing' of someone's sexual orientation may not necessarily be valid.

No, this article is not sexual abuse in childhood causing change in sexual orientation but sexual abuse in childhood seemingly can increase risky sexual behaviours.

Some people are luckier to be stronger in mind and happen to be able to cope with restrains caused by the past experiences.

What needs done are to help those who failed to to deal with the traumas they've got.