Question about new update "Gender Preference"???

Thinking over the attraction system currently in-game, I'm starting to wonder if it'd be more effective to have it be a declarative thing that any sim can set through interaction, like the weather preferences (i.e. just like having the option to tell another sim "yo, I love rain / sun / wind / snow", you could approach another sim and, without flirting with them and affecting their gender preference, have an option to say "yo, I love dudes / ladies / both dudes & ladies / neither dudes nor ladies").