International Healing Foundation
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Constellation of Potential Variables
Creating Same-Sex Attraction (SSA) in Men and Women*
Richard Cohen, M.A. © International Healing Foundation 2008
It’s never one thing alone that causes SSA, it is many factors combined:
1. Heredity
- Unresolved family issues
- Misperceptions
- Predilection for rejection
2. Temperament
- Hypersensitivity
- Artistic nature
- Gender nonconforming behaviors
3. Hetero-Emotional Wounds
- Over attachment to opposite-sex parent
- Imitation of opposite-sex behavior
- Neglect or Abuse
4. Homo-Emotional Wounds
- Detachment from same-gender parent
- Abuse: verbal, mental, emotional, sexual, physical
- Neglect
5. Sibling Wounds/Family Dynamics
- Name calling
- Put-downs
- Abuse
6. Body Image Wounds
- Skinnier/Larger - Shorter/Taller
- Lack of eye-hand coordination
- Late bloomer
- Physical disabilities
7. Sexual Abuse
- Homosexual imprinting
- Learned and reinforced behaviors
- Substitute for affection and love
8. Homo-Social/Peer Wounds
- Teacher’s pet
- Non-athletic
- Boys: no rough and tumble
- Girls: too much rough and tumble
- Name calling
9. Cultural Wounds
- Internet, media, and educational system promote homosexuality
- Pornography
10. Other Factors
- Divorce
- Death of a caregiver
- Adoption
- Religion
The severity of wounding in each category will have a direct impact upon the amount of time and effort it will take to heal.
* Referenced from Coming Out Straight, Richard Cohen, pp. 28-53.
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