From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,ca.politics,ba.politics
Subject: More Evidence That Homosexuality Is A Result of Child Sexual Abuse
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:24:56 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA


Previously, I have posted excerpts from two recent scholarly
works on child sexual abuse that recognized a connection between
child sexual abuse and adult homosexuality.  Yet another such
source came to my attention recently.  The authors are described
on the dust jacket as "a doctoral candidate in child clinical
psychology, University of Virginia," and "professor of
psychology and director of graduate studies, Department of
Psychology, University of Virginia."  In a discussion of the
effects of child sexual abuse:

    In a study of forty-four sexually abused boys, Rogers and
    Terry (1984) found that those who had experienced homo-
    sexual abuse displayed confusion and anxiety over their
    sexual identity.  The authors theorize that this confusion
    stemmed from the boys' concern over both the reasons for
    their selection as a victim, such as the possibility that
    latent homosexual qualities were recognized by the abuser,
    and their inadequate resistance to the abuse.  Gundlach
    (1977) reports that ten of eighteen women abused as girls
    by strangers, and sixteen of seventeen of those abused by
    family members, had chosen a homosexual lifestyle.  Along
    similar lines, Bess and Janssen (1982) note that three
    of the five molested male psychiatric patients whom they
    interviewed had an ego-dystonic homosexual orientation
    -- that is, homosexuality was not the orientation they
    wanted.  (Ego-syntonic homosexuality, by contrast, is
    an orientation the person enjoys and wants.)  It is curious,
    however, that sexual experiences with a man might lead both
    boys and girls to a homosexual orientation later in life.
    If the mechanism for girls is that they develop a dislike
    for sexual activity with those of the same sex as their
    abuser, one would expect that the same mechanism would
    cause seuxally abused boys to develop an even stronger
    heterosexual orientation than the rest of the population.
    As yet, there is no explanation for this apparent 
    contradiction.[Jeffrey J. Haugaard and N. Dickon Reppuci,
    _The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Comprehensive Guide to
    Current Knowledge and Intervention Strategies_, (San 
    Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers: 1989), 71.]

What's interesting about this passage is the admission that
there appears to be a connection between child sexual abuse
and adult homosexuality, and yet, the authors can't come up
with a model to explain it -- but that doesn't prevent them
from acknowledging that a correlation exists.

I'm sure at this point, some people are going to point to the
distinction between ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic homosexuality.
(Ego-dystonic homosexuality is still listed in DSM-III as a
disorder, by the way).  What's the difference between the
two?  If a homosexual has bought into all the homosexual
propaganda about how homosexuality is something to be proud of,
I'm sure that he will be classed as ego-syntonic.  But that
doesn't in any way discount the possibility that he is homosexual
for the same reason as the ego-dystonic homosexual.

On the subject of sexual deviance, Haugaard and Reppuci 
discuss some of the consequences.  The first section addresses
the question of, "I've been homosexual since before puberty,"
claim that has frequently been made:

    When Gagnon (1965) made an extensive analysis of the
    Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, and Gebhard (1953) data, he
    compared girls who had experienced ongoing abuse with
    those who had only one "accidental" abusive contact
    with a stranger.  He found a similar pattern of peer
    sexual play before the abuse occurred and a higher level
    of homosexual peer sexual play by the girls experiencing
    onging abuse once it began.[Haugaard and Reppuci, 71.]

The list of problems experienced by child sexual abuse 
victims should sound familiar to readers of soc.motss 
(and also readers of alt.sex, for that matter):

    Difficulties in adult sexual adjustment are common in
    abuse victims.  Bess and Janssen (1982) found that 70
    percent of their sample of ten psychiatric patients who
    were abused as children, compared with 18 percent of
    twenty-two non-abused psychiatric patients, reported
    adult sexual impairment or variant sexual practices
    as an adult.  The impairments included prostitution,
    no sex during a marriage, ego-dystonic homosexuality,
    impotence, and transvestism.[Haugaard and Reppuci, 73.]
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