The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person’s sexual orientation by placing them at numbers from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). Of his theory, Kinsey wrote:
“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories… The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects.
While emphasizing the continuity of the gradations between exclusively heterosexual and exclusively homosexual histories, it has seemed desirable to develop some sort of classification which could be based on the relative amounts of heterosexual and homosexual experience or response in each history… An individual may be assigned a position on this scale, for each period in his life…. A seven-point scale comes nearer to showing the many gradations that actually exist.”
If this scale has any validity, I would probably be hovering around a 1..hahaha. However, many sexologists have described the Kinsey scale as being far too simplistic to properly explain such a complex thing as human sexuality. In a world where people are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual, is classifying one’s sexuality as easy as picking a number on a scale?
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