KINSEY SCALE

The 'Kinsey scale' attempts to measure sexual orientation, from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). In the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade was used for asexuality. It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).
Introducing the scale, Kinsey wrote:
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
4	Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5	Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6	Exclusively homosexual
X	Asexual

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Contents

Findings

Kinsey reports

References

See also

External links

Findings

Kinsey reports

Main articles: Kinsey Reports


★ 'Men': 11.6% of white males aged 20-35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.^[1]

★ 'Women': 7% of single females aged 20-35 and 4% of previously married females aged 20-35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.^[2] 2 to 6% of females, aged 20-35, were given a rating of 5^[3] and 1 to 3% of unmarried females aged 20-35 were rated as 6.^[4]

References

1. Kinsey, et al. 1948. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Table 147, p. 651
2. Kinsey, et al. 1953. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Table 142, p. 499
3. Ibid, p. 488
4. Ibid, Table 142, p. 499, and p. 474

See also

★ Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

★ Judith Reisman

External links

★ Kinsey Institute home page

★ Kinsey's Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale