The point I was making was exactly the opposite. I was making the point that my many strong, lasting, and memorable non-genital boy-girl attractions throughout the years of public schooling and even preschool (=before puberty, way before puberty) in a society that was clearly not hypersexualized in the modern American way reflected some innate nature to boy-girl attractions that cannot be denied.

I also humbly suggest that you consult with the Western Canon in the process of writing your essay and re-read the beginning of Lolita - the part about Annabel who later died of typhoid, if you will remember - and consider the fact that Nabokov wrote Lolita in the early 1950s BEFORE MTV - I do not have a TV and have never watched MTV but Wikipedia tells me that MTV was launched in 1981, which supports my assertion that Nabokov wrote what he wrote without being influenced by the hypersexualized American society. And, the story with Annabel actually happened back in the Old World, before the main character had the fortune of moving stateside, so that provides a further, deeper alibi for both participants - Annabel and the young H.H. - with respect to their having potentially being influenced by the hypersexualized American society, or, at least I so hope.