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Kinsey scale

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Kinsey scale
n.
A classification system for gauging sexual orientation, designed by Alfred Kinsey, and ranging from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual).
[After Alfred Charles Kinsey.]
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While the Kinsey Scale has become a fixture in sexuality textbooks--and even popular culture--the rating system and Kinsey's findings regarding male bisexuality, and cultural influences on male sexuality in general, largely have been overlooked by today's sex researchers, according to the Center for Sexual Health Promotion (CSHP) at IU, which collaborated with Paul H.
Modern researchers ignoring Kinsey report by USA Today (Magazine)
If the Kinsey scale is correct, then, as Jones taught, a pure heterosexual is rare indeed.
Arbiters of Kool by Austin Bramwell / www.Culture11.com
Some ex-gay stories offer such a vague account of their subjects' sexual desires before the change that it's fair to say their orientation was probably somewhere on the mid-point of the Kinsey scale, even leaning toward the heterosexual end of the spectrum.
Why ex-gay therapy doesn't work by Parelli, Stephen / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
 
 
 
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