u/Mindless_Economist87

Sexuality is mostly biological, but romance (excluding the sexual part) is a pure a social construct. So if you’re sexually attracted to someone but can’t imagine loving or dating them, why is that automatically treated as a natural orientation without considering the inevitable influence of society on our preference?

People don’t grow up in a vacuum. Shame, stigma, gender norms, fear of judgment, internalized homophobia, all of that shapes who we allow ourselves to love publicly.

If attraction is there physically, what exactly blocks the emotional part?
Curious how people distinguish genuine heteroromantic or homoromantic orientation in bisexual people from learned inhibition.