Assume that at birth, one's sexual orientation is plastic, able to be shaped in either direction. What experiences cause which preferences? Counterintuitively, it might not be rejection or non-rejection by one sex or the other: rejection could cause desire for what one cannot have; non-rejection could cause disdain for what one already has. What causes the decrease and disappearance of this plasticity later in life in most people?
We (possibly) distinguish plasticity from bisexuality. A bisexual person might no longer be plastic -- unable to change to not being bisexual.
Previously, mechanisms of identity.
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