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I still struggle to understand the purpose of same-sex attraction since it doesn't facilitate biological reproduction which seems to be our biological purpose as human beings.

Just from a brain's perspective, all other considerations aside -- we have this fancy neocortex and it allows us to do stuff like thinking about thinking about thinking, so we're inclined to use it for all kinds of things . . . including falling in love for its own sake, giving our sexual orientations a primary role in our lives, creating things, finding meaning, watching Jane Austen adaptations . . . brains gonna brain.

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Just from a brain's perspective, all other considerations aside -- we have this fancy neocortex and it allows us to do stuff like thinking about thinking about thinking, so we're inclined to use it for all kinds of things . . . including falling in love for its own sake, giving our sexual orientations a primary role in our lives, creating things, finding meaning, watching Jane Austen adaptations . . . brains gonna brain.

Thinking about thinking about thinking is probably what leads to so much turmoil and problems, plus results in strange threads in online forums. I do quite like the simplicity of your answer, though!

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Not gonna lie -- I have to diagram it out in my own head. But it's a neocortex kind of thing to do!

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Love it 😊