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… but also, at the same time, sexual orientation is predetermined genetically (“born this way”) and isn’t socially influenced in any way at all.

• amanaplanacanal 5y ago
  I think you forgot the nine months spent in the pre-natal environment.
  • goatlover 5y ago
    The pre-natal environment isn't socially determined. It's part of the organism's biological development.
    • marcan_42 5y ago
      It's partially environmental, and therefore can be socially correlated. We know of many conditions that are caused by changes in pre-natal environment (e.g. folic acid deficiency in the mother causes neural tube defects). Genes you don't get to pick, but everything that happens after fertilization is absolutely impacted by the external environment in many ways.
      • goatlover 5y ago
        The ongoing debate is culture versus biology, with genes being the focus on the biological side. The prenatal environment isn't cultural, although some cultural factors can play a role in the mother's health. Biological factors are always mixed in with the environment, but that doesn't mean the environment in terms of human culture is 100% the determining factor for behavior.
    • kqr 5y ago
      But it accounts for things that seem to be there from birth yet cannot be explained purely by genetics.