We were NOT abused!
By: David L. Riegel
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[Some quotes from this book:]
Is it possible that the capacity for adult male homosexuality has been present for all of recorded history, but until recently rarely has been expressed? This seems highly unlikely, for the other major sexual options - heterosexuality and pedosexuality - have been visible to a greater or lesser degree in all cultures and societies throughout all of recorded history. One hypothesis is that adult male homosexuality is in reality sublimated and longitudinally displaced male pedosexuality, or "boylove," wherein one party assumes the role of "loved boy" and the other that of "mentor/lover." [...]
Male homosexuality, whether one holds that it is a genetic or sociobiological trait, has no such reproductive advantages. In fact, since it is a physical impossibility for two males to reproduce, this trait would be strongly "selected against," and should be eliminated from the gene pool in short order. [...]
Conversely, however, an evolutionary case can be posited that the tendency for boys to be sexually attracted to older males is adaptive (Feierman, 1990). In prehistoric times it is likely that many children, due to violence, disease, poor nutrition, and life spans that were considerably shorter than what we have considered "normal" for the past couple of centuries, found themselves without adequately functioning parents or guardians. A boy in this situation who was bright, attractive, and sexually androphilic (Vanggaard, 1969) would have a higher probability of connecting with an older male whose sexuality included a pedosexual component, and who would protect, provide for, and teach the boy the skills necessary for survival. Studies have identified such secondary boy-attracted pedosexual tendencies in 20 to 30% of self-identified heterosexual adult males (Freund, 1970; also cf. Briere & Runtz, 1989, Quinsey, 1984, West, 1980, etc.), and these tendencies would not be selected against so long as the bearers were primarily heterosexual, and only secondarily pedosexual. [...]
Only when cultural and religious disapproval, criminalization, and demonization had forced such consensual relationships underground would there have been cause for the development of a sublimated and longitudinally displaced form of this "boylove," which may be the source of what we know today as homosexuality.
source: 'We were NOT abused!' by David L. Riegel; SafeHaven Foundation Press; Philadelphia; www.shfri.net/shfp/notabused/notabused.html; Second printing: 10/07; First printing 2007