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Originally Posted by sapiens
Researchers have used more than self-reported sexual preference to demonstrate this difference in distribution of sexual preference. Sexual arousal studies using physiological measures have supported the sex difference as well. I doubt that others opinions of male bisexuality would affect the physiological sexual arousal of males.
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What I was getting at was that a male who was bisexual might not decide to act on their arousal toward another male due to societal factors, thus making it seem as though there is more of a spectrum with women than with men. However if we were talking about research on what men actually feel, as opposed to what we actually see happening in society, my point would be moot.
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Originally Posted by sapiens
This isn't particular to your post, but how is psychological not biological? Choice versus no choice is not psychological versus biological. Both choice and no choice must be biological (unless we are reverting to Cartesian dualism).
How is environmental not biological? I suppose that environment might be considered separate from biology in the sense of heritability- Differences between people in their sexual preference could be due to something other than differences in their genes. But even in that case, I would expect environmental causes to be grounded in biology - an environmental influence would have to cause a biological change in the organism during development in order to affect sexual preference.
That makes me wonder about what kind of environmental information could change sexual preference during development.
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I think for the purpose of this thread, when people say "biological", they mean "inherited", or at least that's what I meant. The difference between "biological" and "environmental" would relate to something after birth, some stimulus from life experience, causing one to psychologically prefer a sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. Either way we're ultimately on the same side of the original question, in that homosexuality is not a choice a person makes, whether it be stemming from something inherited or something that happened after birth.