Kinsey scale

Kinsey scale of sexual responses, indicating degrees of sexual orientation

The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual 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 (1948)[2] by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, and others, and were also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).[1]

  1. ^ a b "Kinsey's Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale". The Kinsey Institute. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  2. ^ Kinsey, Alfred C.; Pomeroy, Wardell R.; Martin, Clyde E. (June 2003). "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male". American Journal of Public Health. 93 (6): 894–898. doi:10.2105/ajph.93.6.894. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 1447861. PMID 12773346.