Where do you fall on the Kinsey Scale?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

In honor of the bisexual thread in GD, here's a poll on the Kinsey Scale for DUers. For the record, I'm a 5.

Feel free to throw out any opinions and whatever too.

[HEyHEY]

1. Hopefully on the soft part

HAYOOOOOO!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

*shakes head*

Silly Canadians...

[ZombieNixon]

2. I am a zero.

Hmm...guess I better get used to that. ;)

[BlueIris]

3. Well, I've never really outed myself here, so: 0. I know. It's so sad.

I hate being straight. Thanks Mom and Dad, for failing to give me any "gay" genes. Sucks.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. In my family, it just pops up randomly.

So far it seems confined to my father's mother's side though. I most likely also have a gay stepbrother, but he's only 13...we'll know eventually.

[BlueIris]

7. My Dad's sister is gay. And according to that same auntie,

so was my Dad's mother. And I got most of my "girl" parts and health issues from my Dad's side. Why, WHY couldn't I have gotten the good genes, too?! Not fair!

(And yes, before anyone posts it, I did try to switch teams in college. Got rejected by a lot of women, one of who finally pointed out that trying to date gay and bi ladies because I couldn't find any men I didn't hate was...kinda messed up and wrong. And not very self-respecting. Turns out, sexual identity isn't something you can just throw on or discard at will. Which kinda bites for me.)

[Schema Thing]

56. Not sure why you think the-way-it-is bites

but I agree.

The more I look at this issue, the more I'm convinced it's just about 100% nature. When nurture gets involved, it's really only muddying up (or then again, perhaps sometimes clarifying?) nature.

[idgiehkt]

4. bi-sexual.

well, celibate right now, but when I dream...

[Placebo]

6. Somewhere between 4 and 5.

My straight urges come and go, shall we say.

[LostInAnomie]

8. -1

I'm so straight I puke when I shake another man's hand. :puke:

[Random_Australian]

9. Oooooh, Implicit Association, or Reaction Formation?

[NMMNG]

10. I'm the first #6

What do I win??? :bounce:

[KitchenWitch]

12. A panini grill

and a hard bound copy of the gay agenda!

[NMMNG]

16. Cool!

I've always wondered what the Gay Agenda entailed. :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Duh, a toaster.

[NMMNG]

17. Excellent

I'll need one when I move. :thumbsup:

[KitchenWitch]

22. Now THAT is the gayest fucking toaster I have ever seen!

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. I know! It's perfect!

This is the one I have...It's so not gay...

[KitchenWitch]

24. LOL

What a boring toaster!

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. Yeah, I went the practical route.

Apparently a gay toaster cost $68+shipping. I bought the straight toaster on sale at the supermarket for $8.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Being gay is expensive - or so I have heard!

:rofl:

[xmas74]

36. I bet my daughter would eat toast every morning with a

toaster like that!

Where do I sign up?

[JackDragna]

11. Is there a test for this or something?

What does it mean to be "incidentally" homosexual or heterosexual? Is being incidentally homosexual, for a man, liking Elton John music? How about drinking beer and farting in public for gay men to be incidentally heterosexual? Silly numbers. :)

As far as my own number, I'm whatever will mostly likely piss off Pat Robertson.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. I would say it's more about incidental sexual attraction than...

listening to crappy Elton John CDs or farting in public.

[xmas74]

41. The test I took many years ago

tested for attraction. As a woman I was asked if I could find other women attractive, even in a nonsexual way. I said yes (as I said in another post I can find beauty in nearly everyone). They also asked me questions like if I ever found myself in love with someone of the same sex would I automatically rule out a romantic relationship. My answer was no-love is too hard to find in this world and if I'm attracted to someone I'd like to find out why and what it is about that person that is causing the attraction whether they are same or opposite sex.

Though I've never been in a relationship with a woman and have never found myself attracted to a woman on a sexual level I still scored a three. Truthfully, some of the test just seems to deal with how open you are to different possibilities.

[gkdmaths]

13. with 17 votes,

thats a very interesting distribution.

[fleabert]

18. are we talking experience or attraction? nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Whatever, I went by attraction, personally. nt

[fleabert]

20. then I am a 0 by experience, and a 3 by attraction.

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Fair enough.

I'd probably be a 4 by experience and a 5 by attraction.

[Schema Thing]

57. Get busy!

uh, I know someone....

lol.

[fleabert]

58. :-) my husband wouldn't appreciate it much!

he's a weird one that way...

I've always told him that if he leaves me or dies young, I am getting myself a college age boy-toy and a 30-something woman as my new 'companions' ! :-)

[tjwmason]

27. 5 and a half.

Just to be bloody obnoxious.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. Yep, that's you...bloody obnoxious...

always have to be different. :)

[tjwmason]

32. One does have to have some small skill.

:doffshat:

[khashka]

35. Or enormous talent

I don't keep calling you a git for nothing....

:)

Khash.

[tjwmason]

42. There are occasional moments.

When you're very charming and sweet to me - they don't go unnoticed.

Very occasional moments.

[khashka]

45. Oh, I'm always sweet to you!

The nastiness is just the equivalent of stealing your blazer to get your attention.

You know how I feel about you.

Khash.

[Ediacara]

62. I am the same

I am 6 by experience, but I am still rather curious in an almost academic way...

[Tracyjo]

29. what exactly does incidentally homosexual mean? n/t

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

30. Well, I'm incidentally heterosexual.

I have a very strong leaning towards homosexual attraction. Very rarely, I am attracted to somebody of the opposite sex, but it does happen once in a rare while. My behavior is mostly homosexual, but I've also had heterosexual experiences.

[Tracyjo]

31. I've never had an experience with anyone of the opposite sex

but that doesn't mean I've never been attracted. Where does that put me?

[LostinVA]

37. A Five

[taterguy]

33. 0 in experience, 1 in fantasy

PM me if you want more details

[Deja Q]

34. Like Tiger Woods once said...

FOUR!!!!!

:rofl:

[xmas74]

38. I've taken the test in the past.

Though I've always identified myself as hetero I usually come up as a three.

I've never been involved in a relationship with a woman but I'm not afraid to admit that there is beauty in both sexes (I can find beauty in almost anything) and I'm not the type to rule out love for anyone. My psych prof many years ago said that, IHO, I had the healthiest score out of anyone in the class and probably one of the most honest.

[Beware the Beast Man]

39. I scored a one. I love all the ladies.

:D

[xchrom]

40. i checked 5

i've several romps with women and one longish affair.

and a couple of mixed group gropes.

but i think i would probably just describe myself as easy.

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. Gotta say one.

I've never been sexually attracted to a man in my 31 years. I'm not so presumptive to say it's impossible, though. I could very likely be a zero; but I don't like to assume that all that has been is all that will ever be.

[bigwillq]

44. #6

:bounce:

[eyesroll]

46. I meander between 1 and 2.

It's summer, so I'm closer to 2.

(Yeah, it really does work that way for me. Strange.)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

47. hummm.....4 or 5

there are certian things that I....well, lets not get this thread locked :evilgrin:

[Jade Fox]

48. Interestingly enough...

I just picked up the movie made about Kinsey at the library yesterday and watched it. I enjoyed it, and was amazed that, fifty plus years down the line, what Kinsey was doing still has the power to shock and inform. Especially now that we are experiencing a re-surge of Conservative nut-cakes trying to return us all to the good old days when people mostly didn't have sex except to procreate. Kinsey's work blew that myth outta the water half a century ago.

Interesting fact: Kinsey's parents were fanatical Christian Fundamentalists.

Oh, and I think I'm a five.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

53. I enjoyed the Kinsey movie too.

But is it really surprising that fanatical Christians produced Kinsey? I don't think so.

[Jade Fox]

55. No, it's not surprising.....

and I'm looking forward to an opportunity to rub this fact in the face of sex-phobic Fundamentalists. :evilgrin:

[TimeChaser]

49. Probably somewhere between a 1 and a 2

:shrug:

[Orsino]

50. Zero as far as I know. n/t

[maxsolomon]

51. i dress well for a straight guy

and gay guys think i am cute.

does that make me incidentally gay?

[giant_robot]

52. 0 - I'm a flaming heterosexual.

How boring. :(

[Mutley]

54. Let me ask you this...

I find women attractive, but not in a sexual way. I can acknowledge when a woman is beautiful, and think to myself that if I were sexually attracted to women, she'd be one of 'em. If I ever found myself having feelings for a woman I would not rule out the possibility of a relationship. It just doesn't seem likely at this point — I've only ever truly been sexually attracted to men. Where on the scale do you think that puts me?

[Reverend_Smitty]

64. Thats kind of like how I feel...

I see beautiful people of both sexes, but I've only ever been sexually attracted to men...and I don't really see myself going gay at any point, but I suppose you can never rule anything out

[gollygee]

59. Somewhere between a 0 and a 1

I have very occasionally been attracted to other women. I'm not sure if that's biology for me or if it's a reaction to how sexualized women are in our society (in advertising, etc.). But there it is.

[NewWaveChick1981]

60. I'm about a 2.5 to 2.75.

:)

[Name removed]

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[noonwitch]

63. I'm a 1

I would go gay for Annie Lenox, but only her. I don't know if it counts if the woman looks like a man, though.

I don't really see the point of a scale like this, unless it exists to point out to people that sexuality is not the clear-cut issue people would like to think it is.

[Fleshdancer]

65. 40+ zeros? riiiiiight.

I don't think Kinsey would believe the answers to this poll either. ;)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

66. I don't know the scale.

I've been heterosexual all my life, but I won't lie and say I haven't watched homosexual porn.

So does that make me like 90% of the population and not a zero?

[Bryan]

67. Between 0 and 1

I am sometimes gobsmacked by the sight of a beautiful man, but I'm definitely straight; the aesthetic considerations of sleeping with other men strike me as revolting.

You know what I mean: the scent, the sweat, the blubber, the endless hair-I have as much revolting maleness as I can stand just being a guy, I can't imagine adding another dude to the mix! God bless you fellas and gals that can put up with it! You make the world a better place in which to live!