STRAIGHT or GAY

The more I read about sexual orientation and listen to others, the more I get confused. The lines are not drawn in the sand and they are not particularly clear cut.

More of us now seem to think that our sexual orientation is inborn and that is just who we are. In some circumstances, environmental situations may add some influence. But what is not clear is just how straight or how gay we may be. Are some guys 100% straight or 100% gay? Are there others who think we fall on a continuum somewhere in between? Maybe 50-50 liking both sexes the same amount, or 75-25, etc.

Homo . . . . . . . . . . . Bi . . . . . . . . . . . Hetero

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So where do you fall along the scale? Share your opinions in the comments below, by clicking on the word comments.

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Kinsey scale

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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 . It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others.

Introducing the scale, 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." (Kinsey, et al. (1948). pp. 639, 656)

The scale is as follows:

Rating - Description

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
X - Asexual, Non-Sexual

• Men: 11.6% of white males aged 20-35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.