hph6203 said:
So is it trauma that makes you catch the gays or is it watching gays do the gays?
I have no idea.
A bunch of cases I'm aware of are girls who are sexually abused by some male (father, uncle, rapist, etc.) and they grow wanting no part of men again. Milo was sexually abused when he was young. So obviously he went the other way. A bunch seem to be like that too.
It's well known that often sexual abusers were abused as kids. It never made sense to me that somebody would be abused, and would then grow up to inflict that abuse on others. However, I saw thread on reddit where a psychologist discussed cases (that people don't like to talk about) where child abuse victims "liked" it. I wonder if those are the people who are more likely to grow up and become abusers themselves. Because perhaps they don't view it as being "all that bad".
Another possibility I have considered it that the stuff I was hearing from all those patients was basically "victim competitions". It has been hip in liberal circles to be a victim. The more victimized you are the more sympathy you get. So maybe these patents were trying to out-victim each other and not all of it was true. One of the facilities did get their asses sued off when somebody's daughter came home talking about a repressed memories of satanic rituals and stuff. The parents knew that the story didn't line up at all with the timeline, where they lived, and all of that. After a buttload more therapy, the patient came to realize that none of that was true. That she was encouraged to brainstorm on her experiences and she was effectively and subconsciously making stuff that she thought she was "remembering". They sued and won.
