A new study led by rearchers at Vanrbilt found that 83% of lbian, gay, bisexual and queer (LGBQ) dividuals reported gog through adverse childhood experienc such as sexual and emotnal abe, and worse mental health as adults when pared to their heterosexual peers.
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PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABE AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE: A META-ANALYSIS
In rearch wh 942 nonclil adult participants, gay men and lbian women reported a signifintly higher rate of childhood moltatn than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men ntrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual moltatn. Twenty- … * what percentage of gays were molested *
Sadly, this is an extremely mon occurrence, as there is equently a nnectn between childhood sexual abe and adult say such a thg, of urse, is to ve a hailstorm of fierce cricism and ridicule: “You bigoted homophobe!
”Puttg the name-llg asi, there is some tth to the all gay men were molted as boys (sce there are multiple for homosexualy) and not all boys who are molted turn out gay (probably bee they were ls predisposed towards homosexualy).
In orr to terme the prevalence of childhood sexual abe among gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals, we nducted a meta-analysis that piled the rults of 65 articl across 9 untri. The rults revealed no signifint difference the prevalence of child sexual abe between homose … * what percentage of gays were molested *
Still, nnot be nied that a disproportnately high number of gay men were abed as boys, and that certaly ntributed to their sexual and emotnal ’s why was no surprise when Dr.
Robert Epste, the pro-gay edor--chief of Psychology Today, noted that gay rears who were upset wh an ad that ran his publitn 2002 sent him letters assertg “that gays have a right to be or abive bee they themselv have been abed” (this obvly clud beg sexually abed). )As for the notn that people are born gay, not only would that suggt that fants n relate to the ncepts of sexual and romantic attractn (which they obvly nnot), but would also ignore the fact that our upbrgg and environment have profound effects on . ”But aga, none of this should surprise the least, sce the environment which we are raised, pecially if upled wh major, trmatic childhood experienc, has a profound effect on our ongog mental and emotnal and social when to homosexualy, is taboo to nnect childhood sexual abe wh subsequent gay inty sce: 1) this would ntradict the “born gay” myth; and 2) would unrsre the fact that homosexual attractns are not natural and explaed ndidly by the lbian femist and amic Cale Paglia, “Every sgle gay person I know has some sort of drama gog on, back childhood.
)In keepg wh this, all the profsnal unselors I have spoken wh (cludg traed pastors and psychologists or psychiatrists) have told me that the vast number of gays they have unseled were sexually abed as mors (some told me this was the se every stance they enuntered) might say, “But gays hardly have a monopoly on this.
* what percentage of gays were molested *
More disturbgly, gay circl, such relatnships are often looked at as posive and nurturg, sce, is surmised, the boy was already aware of his same-sex attractn and the olr man served as a mentor of the words of Harry Hay, the gay in and founr of the Amerin gay movement, “If the parents and iends of gays are tly iends of gays, they would know om their gay kids that the relatnship wh an olr man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anythg else the world. And unlike girls or women forced to rape or trmatized, most gay men have warm memori of their earlit and early sexual enunters; when we share the stori wh each other, they are variably posive on. ”That’s why “man-boy love” has been celebrated homosexual culture through the centuri, that’s why there’s a page listg “Historil perastic upl” on a gay Wikipedia se, and that’s why Gee Takei uld speak glowgly of his first sexual enunter at the age of 13 (wh a 19-year-old male mp unselor), at a time when he adms he didn’t know he was this light, the outrageo statement by philosopher Michael Foult, argug for lowerg the age of nsent, don’t sound as outrageo: “It is que difficult to lay down barriers [particularly sce] uld be that the child, wh his own sexualy, may have sired the adult.
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This too is sickeng beyond realy is that children, pecially pre-teens and young teens, are tremendoly imprsnable and malleable, as nfirmed by this acunt shared by a Christian fay activist (reflectg on his pre-Christian youth): “When I was about 14 or 15, I spent an afternoon smokg pot wh a ‘gay’ guy his 20’s who explaed that young people durg puberty have a very fluid sexual inty and how easy had been for him to turn young teen boys to sex partners.... ”Ex-gay Robert Lopez, raised by his mother and her lbian partner, had this to say: “In a society soaked porn where sexual orientatn is discsed openly ont of small children, there will certaly be 12- and 13-year-olds who thk they want sex and thk they are ready for . ”It is tly distasteful to speak of such thgs, but speak about them we mt, given the ever-creasg spe of gay activism, pecially our children’s schools.
And wh the terribly paful issue of childhood sexual abe g to the fore recent days, let’s e this as a teachable n do this by: 1) beg on the lookout for signs that our own children may have been abed; 2) refg to allow our kids to be experimental pawns the culture wars, bee of which we strongly oppose sex-based LGBT curricula the schools; and 3) no longer nyg the mon nnectn between childhood sexual abe and adult homosexualy, thereby providg a path for healg and dog the thgs, we will not only make this a teachable moment, we will make a remptive one. Not all gay men were molted as boys (sce there are multiple for homosexualy) and not all boys who are molted turn out gay (probably bee they were ls predisposed towards homosexualy). Still, nnot be nied that a disproportnately high number of gay men were abed as boys, and that certaly ntributed to their sexual and emotnal velopment.
As for the notn that people are born gay, not only would that suggt that fants n relate to the ncepts of sexual and romantic attractn (which they obvly nnot), but would also ignore the fact that our upbrgg and environment have profound effects on . Yet when to homosexualy, is taboo to nnect childhood sexual abe wh subsequent gay inty sce: 1) this would ntradict the “born gay” myth; and 2) would unrsre the fact that homosexual attractns are not natural and posive.