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My illustrated Kinsey Scale~

What is “The Kinsey Scale?”

The Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, sometimes referred to as the “Kinsey Scale,” was developed by Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues Wardell Pomeroy and Clyde Martin in 1948, in order to account for research findings that showed people did not fit into neat and exclusive heterosexual or homosexual categories.

Interviewing people about their sexual histories, the Kinsey team found that, for many people, sexual behavior, thoughts and feelings towards the same or opposite sex was not always consistent across time. Though the majority of men and women reported being exclusively heterosexual, and a percentage reported exclusively homosexual behavior and attractions, many individuals disclosed behaviors or thoughts somewhere in between.

As Kinsey writes in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948):

“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats…The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects.”

http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/research/ak-hhscale.html

This illustration is kind of ridiculous, or is it just me? Does being heterosexual make you a prude who covers everything but your face and hands, but the more homosexual you are, the less clothing you wear?

No, the thing is that they’re all in the same room, and the ones who are higher up on the scale (that is, more homosexual) are increasingly more comfortable being around the other guys with fewer clothes, since they would be comfortable having sex with them, whereas the completely straight one on the left is all like… “uh… no thanks :]”.