Quote from: Berliegh on November 18, 2007, 06:27:44 AM
Dear Forum people.... what is the Kinsey Scale? and where is it accessed and how do you access a score? I am from the U.K and have never heard of it...
Berliegh,
Here's some info about Dr Kinsey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey, and here's the website for the Kinsey Institute which he founded
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/.
from wikipedia
"Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Kinsey's research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries in the West which went through the sexual revolution starting in the 1960s."
and
"Kinsey is generally regarded as the father of sexology, the systematic, scientific study of human sexuality. He initially became interested in the different forms of sexual practices around 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. It is likely that Kinsey's study of the variations in mating practices among gall wasps led him to wonder how widely varied sexual practices among humans were. During this work, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey Scale which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual; a rating of 7, for asexual, was added later by Kinsey's associates."
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