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I'm all for the Yaoi route. Or a girl Phantom. She's so cute!

Gender is the social aspect of femininity and masculinity. And sex is the genetic aspect of male and female. Gender is socially constructed while sex is innate. Gender and sex is not the same thing.

The claim that sexuality is genetics is a myth. Scientist has only claim that there might be evidence of a gay gene and has never proven that the gay gene exist. Thus, sexuality is not bounded by one genetics.

Biologically speaking, both male and female has the sexual organs capable of performing homo and heterosexual intercourse. Meaning that both male and female are capable of reaching climax in both homo and heterosexual sex. Thus, sexuality is not limited by one's biology.

If sexuality is something that is innate, people will instinctively feel unattractive to the same or opposite sex regardless of their gender if they're heterosexual or homosexual respectively. But the fact that people don't instinctively and innately deny attraction of a person because of their sex is proof that sexuality is socially constructed.

Take for example a guy who's completely change their appearance cosmetically and surgically to look like an attractive girl. Unknowing that he is a girl, heterosexual guys who find him attractive will be attracted to him regardless of his sex.

To plainly put it, a person's attraction has nothing to do with sex. The deciding factor of attraction is personal taste.

Which leads to one's personal preference itself. When a person say that they're heterosexual, that doesn't mean that they'll feel attracted to anyone of the opposite sex. They have their own taste in people that they're attracted to. The same goes with homosexual.

Everyone has their own unique sense of attraction. And that is the sexuality. Like how people have their own unique sense of taste in food, in music, in art, and in opinion, sexuality is merely a product of that personal taste.

You make some very good points, but sexual attraction and human personality in general is far more complex than that. Environment, experience, genetics, and choices we make all influence who we develop into. We are more than the sum of our parts, but that doesn't change that the parts exist and have some meaning. Dismissing genetics as a factor is as equally false as saying genetics are the only factor.

Despite social constructs, attraction has always been a spectrum and not a binary choice. The latest research I've read doesn't support a "gay gene". Rather, everyone has genes that influence attraction to males and genes that influence attraction to females. In most people, these genes usually arrange with stronger attraction genes for the opposite gender and weaker attraction genes for the same gender.

I'm stopping myself from writing more on this, because otherwise I'd end up writing an entire paper here. Personally, I find the whole topic about how genetic predispositions influence personality fascinating. On the other side, I can see that people sometimes put too much weight in it's overall importance.

I state this again that sex is different from gender. Sex is determine by a person's genetic chromosome while gender is how a man or a woman should act. Sex is genetics while gender is socially constructed. Thus, it wouldn't make sense that there is a gene that makes people feel attracted towards the opposite GENDER if gender is socially constructed.

And secondly, the things I said is not opinion. It is facts because it is base on facts.

Same. I thought its shounen ai or yaoi and saw shoujo tag （￣へ￣）but still good (=・ω・=)