Kinsey's Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale

[Hypatia]

I'm happily lesbian.
Heteronormativity can go f@#% itself for all I care. Gay pride for me. Dykes rule.

[tinkerbell]

You see Hypatia, I know many people who would say the same thing about homosexuality and/or bisexuality, but that is an entirely different topic with a different flavor (and not what was intended on this particular thread)  !
Personally, I could care less who or what people sleep with, for it doesn't affect me in any possible way.  I know what I like, and I am sure all of you know what you like as well.  That should be the only thing that matters; the rest is just....well... full of drama and not worth burning your liver over.... 

tink

[Hypatia]

You see Hypatia, I know many people who would say the same thing about homosexuality and/or bisexuality

You may have misread my words. I said nothing about heterosexuality. Look again before you get mad at me.

I was responding to the heteronormativity in Khukuri's statement

Because I am female, I really dislike my attraction to females too. In recent years I have spent more time with men because it was far more socially accepted than being with women.

Her dating choices were constrained by what she felt was "far more socially accepted." She dated men even though she's attracted to women, because of the social pressure to not be gay. In other words, heteronormativity-- the default privileging of heterosexuality and the marginalization of homosexuality. This is what I'm rejecting. Not your or anyone's orientation. Just the fact that your orientation is automatically given superiority over mine. When straights are barred from marrying the people they love, when straights are fired from jobs for being hetero, when straights are beaten up and murdered for loving the opposite sex, when the laws of the state accord gay couples more rights than straight ones, then get back to me about privilege.

[tinkerbell]

Ahhhh....in the absence of Khukuri's quote within your post (post#60), I had indeed misread what you said, Hypatia.  My apologies and thank you for the clarification!

tink

P.S.  I wasn't mad at you though

[cindybc]

"Hee, hee" hee." I knew you weren't even angry and that had nothing to do with sensitivities. After observing people for a while one gets a feeling for it. I do beleive though that you have the capability to express your feelings  Well I don't know why I wrote this for unless I got dang awful lonely white the servers were down.

Have a wonderful day to you Tink and everyone else.

Grrrr a typo can also get one in a lot of trouble

Cindy

[trbrink]

I would have to say that I rate a 5 based on past experiences. However, I'm currently Asexual/"confused", so I may be eventually sliding down the scale. I don't know how this can happen as I felt strongly rooted in my sexual identity when I started transition, however, after more than a year on hormones, I seem to involuntarily be having "other" feelings that my brain doesn't fully understand/accept.

[Blanche]

I'm asexual.  No option for me.  Argg, where do I fall? I'm not attracted to male or female peeps!

[NicholeW.]

Centrally bi-sexual. At least according to what research has been done not an unusual option for women.

One bases her sexuality on her love and affection for her partner. No more, no less, although, not all are that way women also have preferences!! And any is valid and fine.  (Before someone gets mad at me!! )

Nichole

[Ciarquin]

I think I've seen a version of this scale which has an X for asexual. Not quite sure though.

[tinkerbell]

I'm asexual.  No option for me.  Argg, where do I fall? I'm not attracted to male or female peeps!

I think I've seen a version of this scale which has an X for asexual. Not quite sure though.

Ciarquin is correct, Blanche.  And according to the wikipedia:

The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person's sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning 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).

Consequently, I have added an extra option to the poll.  X= asexual.

tink

[Ciarquin]

Consequently, I have added an extra option to the poll.  X= asexual.

tink

Thanks Tink.

[Shion]

I'm probably a 3. No preference. From one end to the other end and everything in between, I like who I like.

[Fer]

Consequently, I have added an extra option to the poll.  X= asexual.

tink

Thanks Tink.

I'm asexual & the X works fine for me too!

[Aiden]

thanks   changed to X

[umop ap!sdn]

I guess I'd be somewhere between 5 and 6.... my experience has been exclusively homosexual, and I don't really want to change that fact, but I've had straight fantasies. So I'm not completely sure how to vote.

[iFindMeHere]

Klein's grid might help you then: https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,43123.msg279423.html#msg279423

[Jay]

Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual

Ive kissed a guy Im not really sure if this counts...

[iFindMeHere]

Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual

Ive kissed a guy Im not really sure if this counts...

Depends, did you like it?

[ZoeySD]

Put a 2, but not sure how that will change as I begin to transition more.  I like both sexes but it's really confusing.  I'm attracted to female appearances but am attracted to male gentility.  So I dont know how the wires in my head get so criss-crossed?! hehe