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[–]motss-pb 23 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Your sexual orientation also exclude pre-pubescent males (boys) from your dating pool as well. It's not just sex, it's gender. A man and a boy are literally different genders, and sex is not the deciding factor there.

This argument actually proves that sexual attraction is based on sex and not gender. Puberty is a hormonal growth phase that leads to the development of secondary sexual characteristics. These are biological changes that create dimorphic phenotypic sex, not gender identity.

[–]fuck_reddit 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This was a distinctly bad-faith argument imo that shows how fucked up their "logical" definitions of sexuality are. Like yeah, I was attracted to boys... when I was a boy as well, as we mature, we (hopefully) develop preferences that match our age. I no longer like boys. Hell, I'm getting old enough now that there are some men that I think are too young for me. It might also be a form of projection on their part, which is even more disturbing to contemplate...