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[angledge]

For reference, the Kinsey Scale is a seven point continuum based on the degree of sexual responsiveness people have to the members of the same and other sex.

0 - exclusively heterosexual
1 - predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homoexual
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

More info here.

With that in mind ....

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Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I think the only way I can give an accurate Kinsey scale number for me is to answer the same survey that Kinsey administered to his study subjects and then grade it the same way. I haven't actually looked into his method (though I bet I could very easily and disguise it as work research) but I'm guessing it's either a lot of yes/no questions or a lot of from 0-5 with 0 being never and 5 being frequently have you done X have you thought about X, etc.

The reason for this is that I don't know how to weight my fantasies vs. my actions or my slightly more than friendly actions vs. my mind-blowing actions when assigning a number along the Kinsey scale.

I won't go out and do things just to change my kinsey score (unlike my purity test score...anyone want to find a secluded tree to help me out with this?) but I wouldn't be surprised if it were to shift either because I finally decided to explore this attraction to women or because I finally met a man who will stand up to me.

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

I thought Kinsey was a woman.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Alfred Kinsey was a man. My guess is he would score somewhere closer to 3 than to 1 on his own scale and this study was his way of proving that he's normal even if society doesn't say so. (normal for a college student or a prisoner)

Virginia Eshelman Johnson is the woman in earlier sex research. She and William Howell Masters researched physical sexual response. And a lot of the numbers about women are Johnson's own numbers because very few women were willing to go through all the things they had to for this study.

Ahh...

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

That's who I confused him with. So Masters and Johnson studied the physical aspects of sex, and Kinsey was just trying to figure himself out while pretending to do research.