As for “sexual identity,” is it anything more than a label that we adopt in order to make sense of the rest? The only thing that remains, when all the factors that are mutable and can be influenced by the action of the will are removed, is raw sexual attraction. The flow of blood to one’s sexual organs in response to gender-specific erotic stimulation. If that is all there is, this is a tremendous amount of smoke pouring out of a very insignificant fire.44
