The Kinsey scale , also called the HeterosexualโHomosexual Rating Scale , [ 1 ] is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience or response at a given time. The scale typically ranges from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual , to a 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the male and female volumes of the Kinsey Reports , an additional grade, listed as "X", indicated "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" asexuality.
The reports were first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [ 2 ] by Alfred Kinsey , Wardell Pomeroy , and others, and were also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female Alfred Kinsey , the creator of the Kinsey scale, is known as "the father of the sexual revolution.
Instead, Kinsey believed that sexuality is fluid and subject to change over time. Rather than using sociocultural labels, Kinsey primarily used assessments of behavior in order to rate individuals on the scale.
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 [ The Kinsey scale ranges from 0 for those interviewed who solely had desires for or sexual experiences with the opposite sex, to 6 for those who had exclusively same sex desires or experiences, and 1โ5 for those who had varying levels of desire or experiences with both sexes, including "incidental" or "occasional" desire for sexual activity with the same sex.
