<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1522" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=220132722-18112005>Do any significant number of humans have heterosexual instinct ? Of course, a huge portion of human behavior is socially constructed, cultural, not instinctive. But is all instinct, including especially heterosexual instinct, obliterated in all members of the human species ? By obliterated I mean overcome, suppressed, muted, rendered trivial by socially constructed/socio-historical or cultural or "nurtured" rules and codes ? "Underneath" all that culture that Butler and others discuss, do any significant number of humans have  instinctive attraction to the opposite sex  or is all sexual attraction socially constructed/cultural/symbolic ? </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=220132722-18112005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=220132722-18112005>CB</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>