Teresa: All I mean is that having attractions to the same sex as a teen might not mean that one is essentially gay. Bisexual is a possibility. Situational factors, especially with some women, might lead to experiences of attraction. And there is some research that indicates sexually abused straight boys can experience SSA for a time. However, this experience is relatively easy to distinguish in practice from the boy who is SSA without precursor.

Ann – I appreciate your coming to my defense. However, Wayne has taken steps to remedy things and there are no hard feelings. I can certainly understand his opposition to my work at that time given my defense of approaches that I now understand better and therefore oppose vigorously.

Patrocles – It is fairly easy to decide what to do. Counselors are trained to help people with trauma and the trauma comes first, before questions or issues of orientation. If a counselor is treating abuse as an instrumental means of changing orientation, then they are making a significant clinical mistake. Orientation becomes clearer without any special interventions (using oranges, etc.) as the person matures.
A real problem in this discussion is to assume that a counselor should tell teen clients what their orientation is if the client isn’t sure. I suspect some counselors do this on the affirming or non-affirming sides but I believe this is not necessary. On the other hand, if the client has determined their orientation, then it is not up to a counselor to talk him out of it.
In any case, it is a false claim that the CA law prevents recovery from sexual abuse, whether the victim has SSA or not.