David Johnston wrote:

Nature versus nuture arguments aside, once you've gotten into the
habit of becoming aroused by a given stimulus it's exceedingly rare
for you to lose that reflex even if the initial reason for it is
removed.  There are people out there who are aroused by prepubescent
children, by funny looking shoes, by being tied up or by wearing rubber
underwear.  None of these seem likely to be the product of hormonal
programming.  A Ranma trapped as a girl, with a girl's hormones, might
very well find herself becoming aroused by men after a while.  But
there's no reason to think she'd lose the already established reflexive
response to girls.

    Very good point.... Stimulus reaction is hard to change if it's been so
ingrained since birth that you don't really know it's stimulus.

My primary problem with Iris is that Ranma's family honour already
demands he commits suicide.  Under the circumstances it isn't really
an irrational course of action.  So why's he in the bin?

    He is in the bin because Ritual Suicide <Which is called Seppuku, Honorable
Suicide> Is now a major-nono in Japan....  It is not looked kindly upon by the
law.
    *Shrugs* Take away a few decades, and the people really wouldn't care, but if
it's set in the nowadays, or anywhere from 1980 on, Suicide isn't much approved of
anymore.

Sincerely...
Kaoru-Shimitsu
Lost "Dragon-Boy"
Of Shimitsu-Ryuu.
Prince of Chaos.