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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023

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The whole thing strikes me as so sordid, precisely because the boys targeted were so close to being of age. I just can't understand it. Why risk literal federal prison soliciting lewd photos from a 17 year old?

Because you need to lock in the abnormal sexuality before it likely begins to fade.

This is either an inflammatory claim that should have been backed up with evidence, or a joke that doesn't really belong on this type of discussion board. Less of this please.

So just to be clear, your theory is that Ali Alexander was some kind of closeted gay evangelist, Johny-Appleseed'ing his way across a number of conservative teenage boys to make sure they all stay gay?

The vast majority of gay adults don’t have a history of trauma or molestation.

In instrumental variable models, history of sexual abuse predicted increased prevalence of same-sex attraction by 2.0 percentage points, any same-sex partners by 1.4 percentage points, and same-sex identity by 0.7 percentage points (95% CI = 0.4, 0.9).

Source.

I’d like to see your evidence that “abnormal sexuality” just fades away on its own, too.

Maybe, maybe not. The twin study data pretty clearly shows genetic influence is minor, ie it doesn’t appear innate and it likely environmentally driven

Also coincidentally, gayness has doubled in the zoomers and millennials while remaining static in older generations

Where are you seeing the latter? I could get it from this site, but it looks like data is thin on the ground. Plus it's self-report. I'd prefer to see prevalence of same-sex partners, or something similar, for more skin in the game.