Quelle: Gerd Brantenberg: What comes naturally
englisches Reprint: The Womenīs Press, London, 1987, S.31f.
Original: Opp Alle Jordens Homofile, Gyldendals Forlag 1973:

"... At least here was a number of people taking it for granted that we were lesbians.
But how come?
I was astonished that my background was so typical, and I wondered why I hadnīt realised this
before.
A domineering father with a submissive mother. Two sisters. ... Since my father had never had
a son, I became his hope of self-fulfilment.
It was crystal clear. There was only one way in which this could end up: I became a homosexual.
There are of course other reasons why one becomes a homosexual. The father-bond with its
subsequent Electra complex is not at all the only explanation. If you have a domineering mother
and a pale shadow of a father, female dominance at home will easily lead to an admiration for
women and - even more unfortunate - female identification, with a corresponding contempt for
the male, represented by oneīs father, the hen-pecked husband. Very many lesbians have had
domineering mothers.
If one grows up alone with oneīs mother, the male will become a distant and peculiar figure,
whom one will later have inhibitions approaching. ... Several lesbians have had no father.
If on grows up in a family with only sisters, the intimacy with them will easily lead to
joint masturbation in the shared bedroom . ... It turns out that a lot of lesbians have had only
sisters.
If one has only brothers, close contact with the male sex in the tender years will easily lead
to the development of a nervous fear of all males, and one becomes a lesbian. A considerable
number of lesbians have had only brothers.
...
In normal families, however, daughters tend to become heterosexual."