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Originally Posted by SoBig

Is it true that most people that were molested at a young age by a person of the same sex, that they end up being gay when they get older?

If thats the case, then its mental, no?

Yes you are right. There has been studies showing a disproportionately high number of gay men were sexually molested by an older gay man when they were themselves children/teens.
There is some interest along the same lines with lesbian women too.
This suggests it can be a psychological issue brought on by events/upbringing trauma etc.

Here is what is even more remarkable and something fairly well known among researchers:
A highly disproportionate number of gay men reported a dysfunctional family upbringing that had a combination of two factors to some extreme:
- An absent father
- a domineering mother.
Researchers point out that 'absent' does not necessarily mean 'missing' or even gone all the time but more importantly 'unloving' cold, emotionally distant.
Researchers point out that by 'dominant mother' they don't mean in a cruel or even 'negative' way but in the sense of being the central figure who is 'dominant', controlling, the initiator and the dominating social figure.
One study had a whopping 60% of gay men reporting this as a significant dysfunctional problem.
This suggests the interest or appeal in being gay can come about from psycho-sociological issues.

But if there was a 'gay gene' that definitely brings up the inevitable question (especially with great advances in mapping genomes, genetic therapy etc) and here it is:
Should we find and isolate the gene even when it is still a fetus and then what?
How many would simply choose to abort the gay baby,
or,
Maybe more the question is the potential option of gene therapy to replace the 'gay gene' while keeping the baby?
How many would do that?
Would you?
Another question might be giving a baby a 'gay gene' as parent may want the freedom to choose.
Maybe the Mum always dreamed to have her own gay boy?
Shouldn't she have the right to choose what she wants for her own body and put the gay gene in the soon-to-be baby boy or girl?