2% to 6% of females, aged 20–35, were given a rating of 5 and 1% to 3% of unmarried females aged 20–35 were rated as 6.
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. The study also reported that 10% of American males surveyed were "more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55" (in the 5 to 6 range). Men: 11.6% of white males aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives. The inclusion of psychosexual responses allows someone with less sexual experience to rank evenly with someone of greater sexual experience. The data to scale the participants comes from their "psychosexual responses and/or overt experience" in relation to sexual attraction and activity with the same and opposite sexes. These reports discuss the sexual attractions, behaviors, and development of human males and females. The Kinsey Reports are two published works, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). As such, the Kinsey Scale may not be sufficient for accurate classification of asexuality." Lehmiller stated, "the Kinsey X classification emphasized a lack of sexual behavior, whereas the modern definition of asexuality emphasizes a lack of sexual attraction. įurthermore, although the additional X grade used to mean "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" is today described as asexuality, psychologist Justin J. Williams write that, in principle, people who rank anywhere from 1 to 5 could be considered bisexual, Kinsey disliked the use of the term bisexual to describe individuals who engage in sexual activity with both males and females, preferring to use bisexual in its original, biological sense as hermaphroditic he stated, "Until it is demonstrated taste in a sexual relation is dependent upon the individual containing within his anatomy both male and female structures, or male and female physiological capacities, it is unfortunate to call such individuals bisexual." Psychologist Jim McKnight writes that while the idea that bisexuality is a form of sexual orientation intermediate between homosexuality and heterosexuality is implicit in the Kinsey scale, that conception has been "severely challenged" since the publication of Homosexualities (1978), by Weinberg and the psychologist Alan P. He wrote that "it should be recognized that the reality includes individuals of every intermediate type, lying in a continuum between the two extremes and between each and every category on the scale." Although sociologists Martin S. Kinsey recognized that the seven categories of the scale could not fully capture every individual's sexuality. Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual It did not reference whether they "identified" as heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual. 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 1–5 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. A seven-point scale comes nearer to showing the many gradations that actually exist. 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. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. Over 8,000 interviews were conducted throughout his research. Kinsey's first rating scale had thirty categories that represented thirty different case studies, but his final scale has only seven categories. Instead of using sociocultural labels, Kinsey primarily used assessments of behavior in order to rate individuals on the scale. Instead, Kinsey believed that sexuality is fluid and subject to change over time. Alfred Kinsey, the creator of the Kinsey scale, is known as "the father of the sexual revolution." The Kinsey scale was created in order to demonstrate that sexuality does not fit into two strict categories: homosexual and heterosexual.
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