Theory and findings in Psychology have affirmed the significant role of variant sexualities in culture building and creativity. However, the patriarchal myth of equating achieving society, with the heterosexual orthodoxy and condemning variant sexualities as pathology holds sway even today. Freud emphasized the significance of non-heterosexual modes, variations/abstentions from the heterosexual modes and non-focusing of genital sex in the building of civilization. The present discussion attempts to draw from the more recent psychobiological findings on the implications of alternate sexualities for higher forms of thought. It is argued that the mechanisms that yield higher forms of cognition are the ones that subserve richness in eroticism, its variants and forms.