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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 ...
Scales of sexual orientation are classification schemes of different sexual orientations. Definitions of the term sexual orientation normally include two components: the "psychological" and the "behavioral" component, but definitions of the two components vary between researchers and across time. [1] Those difficulties motivate researchers to ...
The 1948 first edition of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the first of the two Kinsey Reports. The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B ...
There is more to sexual orientation than the binary of being either heterosexual or homosexual. But it wasn’t until the 1948 publishing of Alfred Kinsey’s pivotal work, Sexual Behavior in the ...
The Kinsey Scale was groundbreaking when it was created, but LGBTQ+ experts say it might not be the most nuanced way to look at sexuality and attraction today.
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) developed by Fritz Klein attempts to measure sexual orientation by expanding upon the earlier Kinsey scale.Fritz Klein founded the American Institute of Bisexuality in 1998 which is continuing his work by sponsoring bisexual-inclusive sex research, educating the general public on sexuality, and promoting the bisexual community.
Alfred Charles Kinsey ( / ˈkɪnzi /; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, [1] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing ...
Two of the most famous studies of the demographics of human sexual orientation were Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). These studies used a seven-point spectrum to define sexual behavior, from 0 for completely heterosexual to 6 for completely homosexual. Kinsey concluded that ...