For her participants, for the well-known women she lists at the start of her book and for women on average, she stresses that desire often emerges so compellingly from emotional closeness that innate orientations can be overridden.
For lesbians, this can spark an earlier awareness of an innate lesbian orientation, but it does not create that orientation: These women would be lesbians even if they had not been abused.
It is not obvious that a racing compass would have much natural use, for it would rely on resources always being located in the same direction, but it seems analogous, at least, to the innate compass orientation of first-time migrant birds (e.g. Newton, 2008) or the time-compensated sun compass control of migrant monarch butterflies (Mouritsen et al., 2013; Reppert et al., 2010).
Diamond doesn't claim that women are without innate sexual orientations.
The Innate Interest motivational orientation is consistent with students acting as autonomous agents in their learning.
Promisingly, a substantial number (11 of 17) students reported well internalised (benevolent interest) or intrinsic (innate interest) motivational orientations in addition to externally controlled instrumentalism.
Taken together with the horizontal bias observed in normal kittens as mentioned above, this discrepancy in the sensitivity profiles may suggest that the innate bias toward horizontal orientation is inherent to neuronal mechanisms that determine orientation selectivity.
Olson's team will argue that marriage is a malleable institution, shaped by shifting notions of gender, race, and property, while sexual orientation is innate.
The fact that traits are highly heritable has been used to argue that those traits cannot be changed by changing the environment, the issue at the heart of people's concerns when they ask whether a trait such as IQ or sexual orientation is innate.
Even within the LBGTQ community, consensus around the idea that sexual orientation is innate and immutable has never existed.
However I have always been able to help these men distinguish between their organic, innate sexual and romantic orientation and their sexual preferences.
