A valid question Jen... and word choice is accurate IMO.
Sexuality is actually a choice for many. Some it's not, some it is. There are plenty of people who choose to be bi-sexual, for example, because they like the intimacy of both sexes, yet they can also live with one or the another alone by choice.
You could say that some people may be likely to change sides. But then some make a definitive choice to change sides due to abuse. They become gay by choice, and I could add that this would be, nearly exclusively, females.
In the Army a lot of women become gay once enlisted. They don't change teams by joining the Army, they change teams after being used and abuse by the males (majority) time and again, so they switch to being sexual only with women. Many even change back upon leaving the Army or remain bi-sexual. They do it because they want sex, they want intimacy, but they can't take the emotional impact from guy after guy taking interest in them, then dumping them. Females just aren't wired for that... and in itself you could say women in the military become traumatised by males doing this to them. When they get into a gay relationship, they become partnered typically with the other and remain in a relationship suddenly, without the abusive impact that guys put upon them by basically only wanting sex and then discarding them, if not bragging about the conquest to all their buddies. In those situations it is very click oriented. That is just an example, but a factual one based on what I have viewed and asked women in the military who went this route.
Whilst you could argue they are bi-sexual, bi-sexual typically refers to a person who isn't committed to either sex and will sleep with either, or they're oriented to one sex more than the other, but can't live without having the other at times.
When you talk about a female who is hetrosexual, has no interest in females for sex, gets raped by a male, then chooses to be in only female female relationships... they become gay due to abuse because they simply can't trust another male, or can't handle to be touch in that way by a male again. Call it a coping mechanism if you want... but it happens a lot with females who are abused. Just like it happens a lot with females who enter the military as hetrosexuals and then become gay. They don't become bi-sexual, because at that time they can't stand the other sex at all. This is also why some make a choice to give-up sex altogether as they don't want to be touched period, regardless of sexuality.
To me, saying more likely to be broadens the umbrella to all, where in fact it is only some who choose to do it. I haven't heard of a male making that choice who was raped by a female, I've only heard of it from lots of females who were raped by males and chose to become gay. Some indefinitely, some do it for periods in their life, then go back to being hetrosexual again as they don't want or need the other sex further.
