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...homosexuals go straight is that so few of them want to, and it is no longer widely seen as the enlightened thing to do. Another reason is that the causes of homosexuality are notoriously obscure. The familiar late-Freudian explanations ("Smother mother," weak or hostile father) fit many male homosexuals???but by no means all. Though some argue that they "were born this way," so far, attempts to find a biological or genetic cause of homosexuality have failed...
...homosexuality is latent in all mature humans, as has been widely believed from a misreading of Freud. In American culture, sex roles are most powerfully determined in the home, and at such a young age (generally in the first few years of life) that the psychological identity of most homosexuals???like that of most heterosexuals?is set before they know it. In the case of homosexuality, parents with emotional problems can be a powerful cause, leaving their child without a solid identification with the parent of the same sex and with deeply divided feelings for the parent of the opposite...
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