![]() ![]() ![]() It’s by far the best-known sexuality scale, both for its creator’s fame and for its simplicity, but it’s far from the most accurate or most helpful. A seventh category, just called “X,” is often interpreted as representing asexuality. It runs from zero to six, with zero being exclusively heterosexual and six being exclusively homosexual. ![]() Today, most people know that as the Kinsey Scale Test (though that’s just one way to measure sexuality). Kinsey’s ethical standards were questionable, especially by today’s standards-much of his research involved sexual contact with his subjects-but he also introduced the world to an idea that previously had little publicity: Human sexuality isn’t confined to the binary hetero- and homosexual standards rather, it exists on a broad spectrum. The second volume, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, came out five years later and made equally shocking claims about the inner lives of 5940 women, also almost exclusively white. His book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, featured extensive interviews with 5300 people-almost exclusively white males along with a paltry number of racial and ethnic minorities about their sexual histories and fantasies. It was originally published on June 25, 2018.Īlfred Kinsey’s spectrum of human sexuality shocked the world when he published it in 1948. ![]()
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