Psychological trauma in childhood is a key factor in homosexuality
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The European magazine Sex Roles published a psychological study, the purpose of which was to understand which factors affect sexual preferences in the first place. To this end, the expert group interviewed 1,200 representatives of sexual minorities and several thousand representatives of the heterosexual majority.
In the results it turned out that the majority of lesbians or bisexuals (about 3 out of 5) remember cases of abuse or humiliation in the childhood by parents. It is curious that female "bootcha" (male-like lesbians) reported mainly about emotional violence in childhood, and lesbians are more feminine - about physical violence.
"Fatal" women (1 of 3) at a young age were subjected to forced sex, in its various manifestations. Short-cut ladies of any orientation encountered in 75% of cases, being girls, with physical or emotional disregard.
But for men exactly the opposite. 4 out of 5 homosexuals and bisexuals reported that in childhood they enjoyed great attention from individual parents, in particular, they remember the caresses of their father. Two out of five confessed that boys were subjected to indirect violence, one out of ten - to a direct sexual assault.
On the average among sexual minorities, a noticeably larger number of parents with deviations (ie, mental, sexual, etc. Deviations) can be observed. Family neglect and psychological trauma in childhood, including sexuality, are recognized by the authors of the study as a key factor that has generated unconventional sexual preferences for both men and women.
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