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The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person's sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the Male and Female volumes of the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade, listed as "X", was used for asexuality (Male volume, Table 141; Female volume, page 472). It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
Introducing the scale, Kinsey wrote:
"Today, many sexologists see the Kinsey scale as simplistic.
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The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person's sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the Male and Female volumes of the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade, listed as "X", was used for asexuality (Male volume, Table 141; Female volume, page 472). It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
Introducing the scale, Kinsey wrote:
"Today, many sexologists see the Kinsey scale as simplistic. They suggest that sexual orientation and sexual identity are more complex and varied."
Table of the scale
The scale is as follows:
| Rating | Description |
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| 0 | Exclusively heterosexual | | 1 | Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual | | 2 | Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual | | 3 | Equally heterosexual and homosexual; bisexual. | | 4 | Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual | | 5 | Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual | | 6 | Exclusively homosexual
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Findings
Kinsey reports
- Men: 11.6% of white males aged 20-35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.
- Women: 7% of single females aged 20-35 and 4% of previously married females aged 20-35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives. 2 to 6% of females, aged 20-35, were given a rating of 5 and 1 to 3% of unmarried females aged 20-35 were rated as 6.
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