This likely isn’t far from the truth, “straightness” is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the “norm”, and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there’s no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.
Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn’t as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates (but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence).
Basically, heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than “nature”. And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.
This likely isn’t far from the truth, “straightness” is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the “norm”, and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there’s no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.
Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn’t as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates (but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence).
Basically, heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than “nature”. And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.