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[[Image:Satinover.jpg‎ |thumbnail|250px|Dr. [[Jeffrey Satinover]], M.D.]]
 
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In 1999, Dr. [[Jeffrey Satinover]], M.D. wrote the following regarding the position of '''sexual abuse being a contributing factor for homosexuality''':
 
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{{Cquote|Many studies demonstrate a sadly disproportionate extent of sexual abuse in the childhoods of [[homosexuality|homosexual]] men, suggesting at the least that both homosexual unhappiness and homosexuality itself derive from common causes...<ref>[http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/narth/bioresearch.html Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, The Biological Research on Homosexuality, Book Excerpt: Homosexuality and American Public Life Edited by Christopher Wolfe, Spence Publishing Co. (Dallas, TX)]</ref>}}
 
  
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In 2001, the journal ''[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]]'' published a study entitled ''Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons''. The abstract for this article states the following:
 
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{{Cquote|In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation. This research is apparently the first survey that has reported substantial homosexual molestation of girls.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11501300&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google ''Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons'', ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 2001 Oct;30(5):535-41.]</ref>}}
 
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The authors of the above medical journal article entitled  ''Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons'' also stated that childhood sexual molestation may not be a causal factor for homosexuality and that the abuse molestation may be occurring after the individual is a homosexual and the medical researchers speculated that the victims of molestation may be engaging in behaviors that put them at greater risk for molestation.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11501300&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google ''Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons'', ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 2001 Oct;30(5):535-41.]</ref>
 
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In 1998, Dr. William C. Holmes, M.D. and Dr. Gail B. Slap, M.D. reported in the medical journal [[JAMA]] the following:
 
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{{Cquote|Adolescent boys, particularly those victimized by males, were up to 7 times more likely to identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual than peers who had not been abused (P<.001). <ref>[http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/280/21/1855 Sexual Abuse of Boys Definition, Prevalence, Correlates, Sequelae, and Management, William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE; Gail B. Slap, MD, MS, JAMA, Vol. 280 No. 21, December 2, 1998]</ref>}}
 
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Dr. Holmes and Dr. Slap also pointed out that "No longitudinal studies examined the causal relationship between abuse and gender role or sexual orientation, however. Gender role nonconformity and gay or bisexual identity may precede abuse." <ref>[http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/280/21/1855 Sexual Abuse of Boys Definition, Prevalence, Correlates, Sequelae, and Management, William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE; Gail B. Slap, MD, MS, JAMA, Vol. 280 No. 21, December 2, 1998]</ref> Dr. Holmes and Dr. Slap also offered a speculative scenario in regards to how a homosexual adolescent exploring his sexuality may put himself at risk but offered no empirical studies in regards to their speculative scenario.<ref>[http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/280/21/1855 Sexual Abuse of Boys Definition, Prevalence, Correlates, Sequelae, and Management, William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE; Gail B. Slap, MD, MS, JAMA, Vol. 280 No. 21, December 2, 1998]</ref>
 
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In 1997, the researcher Gundlach studied the issue of childhood sexual molestation in regards to lesbians and according the medical researchers Gundlach found the following:
 
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{{Cquote|Gundlach (1977) surveyed 225 lesbian and 233 [[heterosexuality|heterosexual]] women, and found that 30% of the heterosexual women and 21% of the lesbians had been raped.  Of the 30 women who had been raped before the age of 14, 26 had an adult homosexual orientation while 9 had an adult heterosexual orientation.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=11501300&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google ''Comparative data of childhood and adolescence molestation in heterosexual and homosexual persons'', ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 2001 Oct;30(5):535-41.]</ref>}}
 
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In addition, the abstract for the Gundlach study states the following additional detail:
 
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{{Cquote|Sixteen of the 17 girls, age 4 to 16, molested or seduced (6 for a long time) by a relative or close family friend are lesbians as adults. The subjects' attitudes about the incident were highly determined by parental reactions.<ref>Sexual molestation and rape reported by homosexual and heterosexual women, Gundlach RH., Journal of Homosexuality. 1977 Summer;2(4):367-84.</ref>}}
 
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==See Also==
 
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*[[Homosexuality]]
 
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*[[Causes of Homosexuality]]
 
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*[[Homosexuality Research]]
 
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*[[Homosexuality Statistics]]
 
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*[[Psychology]]
 
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==References==
 
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{{reflist|2}}
 
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]
 
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[[Category:Psychology]]
 

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