This is not a sad thread
@manipulated . I think it's a very important subject for many here, I would say even for the vast majority. The evidence is everywhere on this site, there is already this tab called "Sexual Identity Issues". The creator of this discussion being a person just like us who was abused in your childhood and like thousands more here at Male Survivors said and think the same thing, so as much as you commented on some posts that I made myself and somehow helped me, I see in your comment the same censorship tactics used in public discussions about society today which is to say that "this" is sad or offensive to a certain group of people. Well my friend, I don't know what is offensive to others and I don't even have obligation to know because if it is to think or act like this nobody would say anything to anyone, and as if that was not enough of a problem, nowadays people need to show / explain the obvious (not wanting to sound arrogant, but There's no other way to say this) as I'm doing right now. There's a much-used comment here that I don't like at all, which is "we have to find our own truth", I don't want the truth about me and convenient to my feelings and emotions, I want and seek the objective truth and clear answers even if it hurts me. It seems to some here it is very difficult to admit that much of their behavior was created or derived from childhood abuse, and yes, I believe that one's sexual identity can be changed by abuse, not necessarily instantaneously, but over time a person who fights against SSA sometimes doesn't find a way out or a solution to it and ends up giving up and conditioning himself to that style of life. All things become routine, even things that you think are bad or are objectively bad. There are examples in the comments in this same thread, as if that were not enough, I discovered a while ago with an aunt of mine that my gay uncle told her that he was abused and raped by a neighboring father when he was a child, another example was a co-worker of one of my best friends told to him that he was repeatedly raped by his uncle or father, I don't remember correctly, and then as time went by he got used to it and ended up liking it and became gay.I don't think this thread defame this survivor organization, quite the opposite, it helps many others who think the same way, not because of what we say or feel but because it's something that a major part of us survivers went through and have in comom.There you have it, the evidence you needed.Well, unless I need a PhD.