Explaining the Kinsey Scale
While answering the quiz you are given a scale answer. You answer them in a matter of more or less. Not yes or no. For instance each question would be have a answer and you would select yes, a little, maybe, no, now way. There are different degrees to each answer in order to determine how strong your answer is versus a simple yes or no.
You are asked questions like "have you ever had thoughts of sexual contact with someone of the opposite sex", the next question may be the same but ask if you have had thoughts of someone of the same sex. The next question may be something like "have you ever had sexual relations with some one of the same sex". That question, too, would be followed by that same question except "someone of the opposite sex".
After answering a large series of questions, depending on your answers you will be given a number 0-6. That number will represent what level you are on The Kinsey Scale.
Here is a sample of The Kinsey Scale scores:
0- Exclusively Heterosexual
1- Predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2- Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3- Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4- Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5- Predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6- Exclusively homosexual
As you can see from the scale, you don't have to be either heterosexual or homosexual. There are different levels at which your sexuality may range. 0 and 6 would definitely be heterosexual or homosexual, Level 1 and 5 would be bi-curious and 2 and 4 would represent those who have experimented but not sure. Level 3 would represent being Bi-sexual. As there is no definite way to prove this from any single person, answering the questions as true as possible would make The Kinsey Scale more efficient.
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Post a CommentActually Alfred Kinsey did not construct such a scale but did suggest seven classifications to describe sexual preference (not six). Incidentally his conclusions were based on non-scientific interviews with convicts, hardly a sampling of the general population. He also advocated attitudes about adult-child sexual behaviors that provided a license for child sex abuse...and paid the molesters to share their detailed accounts of their exploits with children. If you are truly interested in human sexuality, there are many other more reliable and ethical sources.
Wow this is very interesting, I would to know more about this scale. Very nice article.
a unique SCARE?? anyone else catch that?
Very well done, im doing a project on Homosexualtiy and trying to teach Acceptance not tolerance and well this scale helps show that you dont have to be one way or the other but that you may be some of both...perhaps that you think about the same sex but you would never go there or vica versa, in any case it was a well done report on the kinsey scale...If i could only get the original test that Kinsey wrote that would be Awesome...If anyone has a copy or a really good example e-mail it to me at T-advice@live.com thank you!
The scale is interesting that people need a test to figure it out. With little I know about the test, it seems it doesn't include the wide variety of the gender. Homo/hetero implies only two genders.
Interesting theory! I am going to do some more research. Per capita, my city has (I've heard anyway) the second largest homosexual population in the country, and sexuality has always intrigued me.
Yay sex scales. Uhm. Interesting.