The latest research now indicates that the majority of people are bisexual, with relatively few being exclusivly hetero- or homosexual. So ultimately people are attracted to whatever they are attracted to, with actual gender bearing only minor relevance. And it is a fact that most societies culturally indoctrinate people to be heterosexual. I suspect that many of us who identify as heterosexual very likely simply grew up so steeped in the societal assumption that opposite-sex attraction was how we are "supposed" to be that we internalized it at some point. That many people who identify as straight have nevertheless experienced attraction to someone of their own gender speaks to this.
I am also going to add that it is incorrect to claim that people who are infertile can only "become" this way at some point in their development because of the erroneous notion that fertile couples cannot pass on the genetic handicap of sterility. There are all manner of genetic defects that can occur in the offspring of unaffected parents, and infertility is one of them.
And why is everyone suggesting that homosexuals are somehow exempt from reproduction? Of the five homosexual friends I have, three of them are parents. And this is not always due to mis-identifying as straight and attempting to make a family with someone of the opposite gender. Homosexuality was commonplace amongst the ancient Greeks and they reproduced all the time. In fact the philosophy generally was "Men are for pleasure, women are for babies." And surely it is well known that homosexual men and women often yearn for their own children to the point where personal arrangements between a lesbian and a male friend, or a gay man and a female friend, are made so that the homosexual can raise a child of their own. Homosexuality is no danger at all to the existence of a species. Never has been. And it is completely normal.
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