Where would you put yourself on the Kinsey scale?

[terrya]

I brought up Alfred C. Kinsey in another post.

Just curious: where would you put yourself on the Kinsey scale? 0 being exclusively heterosexual. 6 being exclusively homosexual.

I'm a 6, I think.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. hard-core 6

n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

2. 0

[Vanje]

3. 5

Solid 5

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. 4.5

mostly gay but i do like some boys

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Two.

I'm just not attracted to the male form, but I am not opposed to the concept in any way. I'm also confident enough in my own sexuality to say and do things some may consider "effeminate" or "sensitive."

[Liberal Veteran]

6. 5.99999999

Cause I might get REALLY drunk one night.

[BurtWorm]

10. 0.1111111

Cause I also might get REALLY drunk one night! ;)

[DelawareValleyDem]

7. Pi

[Cuban_Liberal]

8. Four-ish....

:)

[tigerbeat]

9. 3.5

girls are soft and pretty. but there's a walk or two on the wild side in my past.

[RagingInMiami]

11. Zero

[XNASA]

12. 1

:shrug:

[arcane1]

13. no idea

I'm in there somewhere...

:shrug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. 5.5

[arcane1]

18. I'll accept your educated assessment

for now :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

30. just teasing..i think you are a .5 in reality

[arcane1]

32. tease!

:spank:

[Schema Thing]

14. I'm a zero

Hey, that didn't sound too good! Maybe there is a nefarious gay agenda?!

Actually, having grown up quite brainwashed in a fundy cult, I have to say that being so totally hetero, made it much easier for me to empathise with and believe that gay people, and even bi people, don't "choose" their sexual turn-ons. Unfortunately, most fundies don't make that connection :(

But then again, if you think about it, most fundies are bi. I think it's what makes progress in this world so dificult; they assume that since they bury the same-sex desires, it's the right thing to do, and can be done, if you just pray enough.

[the Princess]

15. I'm a three

I LOOOOOOOOOOVE men but - I also am not apposed to being physically intimate with a woman or two.

Sexually I'm a bit of a freak - and most things go with me! TMI????

[sniffa]

38. NEI

not enough info.

keep it coming. :D

[the Princess]

40. Um I can't do dat

They would lock this thread.:evilgrin:

[dr.strangelove]

17. Solid 0

I never met another man that did anything for me.

[redqueen]

19. 1 or 2

[sui generis]

20. 4

Miss Priyanka knows my tale (not my tail).

[meegbear]

21. 7 baby!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

26. LOL

n/t

[jswordy]

22. I am a 0, unless it involves...

...watching two women get it on, in which case I am a 6!!!

LOL! ROFL!

[eyesroll]

23. Maybe a 1, maybe a 2.

:shrug:

[sui generis]

24. yoo hoo!!! Oh Fox News! Are you getting this? Eat. My. Shorts.

[sniffa]

25. 3.14

[sniffa]

29. jeez

i Left it out there for someone to pick up the cheap pop.

pi sexuaL

[kick-ass-bob]

31. DelawareValleyDem already did the Pi joke...

of course, no one said anything there either...

[sniffa]

34. i missed it

he/she needs to work the set up better

[kick-ass-bob]

35. Agreed.

[DelawareValleyDem]

36. I'll capitalize next time

maybe add a few similies

[sniffa]

37. no, no..

it was fine, but the punchLine shouLd come Last.*








* i have to cover myseLf for not seeing it. :P

[loudestchick]

27. I'll say, 3.5

[Orangepeel]

28. What do the intervals mean?

In the movie, Martin was a "3" and he had had sex with both men and women. But, I don't know if he was a three because he'd had sex with both or because he'd had equal amounts of sex with each.

If "0" is exclusively hetero, is "1" fantasies and "2" having petted but not having had sex? Does "1" mean that 1/4 of all sex partners have been the same sex, "2" mean that 1/3 of all partners have been the same sex and "3" mean that 1/2 of all partners have been the same sex?

[redqueen]

51. I don't think so.

I don't think the numbers represent actual experience as much as they do your feelings towards your sex / the opposite sex.

If your guesses are correct that makes me a 3 at least.

[kick-ass-bob]

33. I guess I'm a 0, I haven't tried anything else.

And probably won't.
:shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

39. 0 to be honest

I dunno really. As long as I remember, Ive always been attracted to girls.

[Acryliccalico]

41. Most of the population of the country

will fall into the middle of the scale because normal is only defined by the extremes on each end. On the Bell Curve almost everyone will be strewn out between 2 - 4. The middle is the norm.

I think I am a 2. :) This sounds an awful lot like a class I had once.

[Orangepeel]

45. if sexual orientation is normally distributed

it might be, but I don't know that it is. Did Kinsey's data suggest so? What about subsequent studies?

[ProfessorGAC]

42. I'm A Zero

However, people have been saying that about me for years. You know, like in high school, people would say "That guy's a zero!"

So, i must be a zero.
The Professor

[LynzM]

43. 2ish

Would be my guess, without knowing the actual criteria...

[motely36]

44. Definately 6

[noonwitch]

46. I'd say a 1

I almost exclusively am attracted to men, but I do think Annie Lenox is hot. Part of it is her voice.

[devilgrrl]

47. Less than Zero

:silly:

[JimmyJazz]

48. Oh, I read that wrong. I thought it said "kinky"

I guess now I don't have to alert on you.

[sundog]

54. your mind... always in the gutter

:P

[JimmyJazz]

56. that's because I followed YOU there, dear!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

49. my intial reaction was 2/3

nt

[Eugene]

50. 1 maybe 1.5

[sundog]

52. 4.46239

:7

[thom1102]

53. I am a five...

Criteria is generally fluid. It is pretty much up to the individual interpretation. Some folks regard intensity of desire as the determining factor, while others tend to rate the average sex of the partner. There hasn't been any real serious study to follow up on Kinsey's work, at least on the same scale as his original study.

Some people see sexuality as a continuum that people ride throughout their lives: a 4 at 17, then a 0 at 30, then a 6 at 60.

[u4ic]

55. 1

[MotorCityMan]

57. Interesting question

I would have to say a 6+

[nickgutierrez]

58. I think I'm probably a one. n/t