Since you brought up academic research, academic research into male homosexuality from back before the psychology profession started to kow-tow to homosexual and child castration activists had a profile of the male homosexual. He did not bond with his father or a father figure and then began to eroticize male attention, and it became sexual. Some male homosexuals were molested as a child.Mr. Mistoffelees wrote: ↑April 25th, 2023, 5:40 pmI read a Stanford study into homophobia. In the test several men, some of whom were virulent homophobe, were exposed to sexually graphic images of a homoerotic nature.
Not bonding with his father could be because he is artistically inclined, and doesn't want to play baseball and football, and does not get his father's approval, and there is a disconnect. It doesn't have to mean no father in the home. Of course, not all men who do not have fatherly approval go down this route.
So for you, did either of these explanations fit your story? Did you not bond with a father figure in your youth, or did some man get you to have sex with him at a young age?