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Old 04-17-2007, 09:44 PM   #48
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I might add this article itself proves nothing. The anonymous author can't possibly really know the relationship between the abuse and his sexual preference. Six year olds are innocent of any sexual proclivities. (Do you know the source of your own sexual preference?) Scanning this article it appears vague on the question of when the author realized his sexual preference but it seems there never was a time that he consciously was heterosexual. He experienced the usual hormone changes many years after the purported molestation, and with the related sexual urges blossoming, he realized men appealed to him.

I still say the story appears a polemical parable, and a somewhat ill-advised and ill-conceived one at that. But even if all that is described happened, it doesn't advance the proposition that molestation causes homosexuality.
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