Academic enquiry is not carried out in order to pick fault with and disapprove of individuals, or with a predetermined aim of changing behaviour observed.
If your academic enquiry demonstrates that a particularly sexuality is partly or wholly socially formed, that does not (or should not) equate to a value judgement on those who have it, or imply that anything must be done about it.
It had long been debated how far same sex has a biological vs social basis, and while I'm all for academic enquiry for its own sake and consider the question intellectually interesting, I don't think that the answer should have any effect whatsoever on policy, for the simple reason that - however arrived at - someone's sexuality is between them and whichever consenting adults freely agree to a sexual relationship with them.
If it were to turn out that homosexuality has a social basis only, I would not think we ought to do anything to prevent it, nor think it less "valid" than heterosexuality, not try to change anyone's mind about that being their sexuality.
So yes, it should be kept in the academy unless and until it is shown that there is some great harm being done to your population which needs addressing.
Any upset of straight women at being ruled out in advance of the dating pool of gay men doesn't qualify, and homosexuality - even if entirely socially constructed - should not be "criticised" because of it.