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by smegsicle 1526 days ago
a few 1990s studues showed 35-40% of homo/bisexual men self reported to being abused as children. it seems unthinkable that physical child abuse could have exploded to keep that percentage up, but maybe something else is having a similar effect?

Childhood sexual abuse among homosexual men. Prevalence and association with unsafe sex

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9127231/

Self-reported childhood and adolescent sexual abuse among adult homosexual and bisexual men

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014521...