But this argument is misaimed. The focus must shift from the clothes, which do vary, to the human beings underneath, who in their essentials do not. It is natural and not conventional. This sudden flutter and consequent flow of hormones is natural. But we are not defined solely by our capacity to feel and express passions.
Human beings are, by nature, able to think deeply and come to profound insights.
As the politically correct crowd rightly points out, the intellect is not the sole possession of white, western males but is a human endowment, shared universally. And now the pinch. Science may be brought in to confirm the following, but that would only be to vindicate what almost all of us know by experience. Our intellectual and sexual attentions are inversely proportional. This relationship is not confined to sexual passion.