(Someone with little sex drive and few social desires for anyone might show up at "3" on the Kinsey scale, but so would someone with strong sexual desires for both men and women). Kinsey surely intended to show degrees of bisexuality, but falling between the two extremes could mean that one is both homosexual and heterosexual or that one is neither. There is little clarity as to what is measured by the middle section. Kinsey’s continuum was based on counting orgasms, and this measure of sexual identity misrepresents contemporary gay, lesbian, and bisexual identity.Įven though the Kinsey scale was conceptualized as a continuum, it is essentially a bipolar scale that presents homosexuality and heterosexuality as exclusive of each other. Get to know your logical reasoning level. You have to find a pattern and determine the missing element from the logical chain. You prefer to stick solely with the opposite sex and are not likely to experience any bisexual or homosexual encounters in the future. Credited by pioneering sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey, the tool is one of the most historically influential scales. The Kinsey Scale is an early method of describing the spectrum of human sexuality. Conclude by recapping that defining sexuality is not as simple as Gay and. You are a 0 on the Kinsey scale meaning that you are exclusively attracted to members of the opposite sex and have never had any sexual experiences or fantasies about the opposite gender. It is a seven-point scale based on hours of interviews. This famous number, although politically useful for establishing the presence of a gay population, is probably inaccurate. How Anthony Bogaerts pioneering research on asexuality is forcing us to rethink human sexual behaviour. This test created to determine your ability to think logically. L, G, B, and T using the Queer Vocabulary 101 sheet. Kinsey had conducted extensive research into many aspects of human sexuality, and proposed a seven-point scale of sexual behaviour:ġ = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexualĢ = predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexualĤ = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexualĥ = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexualĪlthough Kinsey developed the scale to stress a continuum of sexuality, his study has generally been cited to prove that ten percent of the population is gay. 1 Predominantly heterosexual/only incidentally homosexual- Individuals who have only incidental homosexual contacts which have. In 1948, Alfred Kinsey caught the world by surprise when he published "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male", the first bestseller about sex. 0 Exclusively heterosexual- Individuals who make no physicial contacts which result in erotic arousal or orgasm, and make no psychic responses to individuals of their own sex.
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