lynn / clarissa on Nostr: Halfway through the book she argues that sexual attraction is hardwired pre-natally, ...

Halfway through the book she argues that sexual attraction is hardwired pre-natally, appealing to the old explanation that gay men are created by an immune response that makes each subsequent male child be treated as an invasive thing in the parent's body (I've read debunkings of this years ago but I can't remember the details of it)

And yet again we have an instance of confusing the correlation with the causation

"...functional MRI has shown differences in patterns of brain activation between gay and straight men when viewing gay and straight pornography. The network of brain regions that are activated when gay men look at gay porn is the same network activated when straight men look at straight porn"

I mean

yes?

again, interiority is going to show up physically because we're not mind body dualists in this house

you haven't proven that this is hardwired you've shown that you've identified what it looks like in the brain to find something sexy

and of course I have to include my normal disclaimer that I find "is sexuality or transness a fixed developmental/genetic trait" to be the most useless and boring question we could ask