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The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale,[1] attempts to describe a person's sexual experience or response at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the Male and Female volumes of the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade, listed as "X", was used to mean "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions"; in modern times, this represents asexuality.[2][3] The reports were first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and were also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).[1]
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Annee
It should be noted that "gayness" isn't like a switch that is flipped on or off in your head. It is actually considered a sliding scale ranging from totally gay to slightly gay to bisexual to bicurious to completely straight. It is also considered to slide to different parts of the scale as you get older. A straight person could get older and become gay or vice-versa.
"Gayness" is not considered a sliding scale.
Overall sexuality is considered a sliding scale.
If your orientation is attraction to same sex --- then you are homosexual. What type you are attracted to is not about the orientation.
It's no different then a hetero man being attracted to big boobs or an athletic body.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
You are born that way. I'm just saying that you can drift to other ends of the spectrum as you get older. It isn't set in stone necessarily. For instance, I consider myself slightly bicurious. I never used to, but my mind wonders sometimes and I've thought about it. I probably wouldn't mind fooling around if the situation came up, but I'm by no means looking equally for a relationship with a man as much as I am a woman. These feelings weren't with me when I was a teenager either.
Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale,[1] attempts to describe a person's sexual experience or response at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the Male and Female volumes of the Kinsey Reports, an additional grade, listed as "X", was used to mean "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions"; in modern times, this represents asexuality.[2][3] The reports were first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and were also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).[1]
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
Umm...your choice of the words "physically oriented" sunk that part of your argument. Maybe mentally oriented would have worked better. Physically, men have one single unique organ and woman have one single unique organ that only work together. Without one, humans can't have children naturally. Therefore, if you say "physically oriented" you are saying that a man can only be attracted to a woman and visa versa.
No, not at all. What I was trying to say is that men's erections are what signal where their attractions lie, and mentality really has nothing to do with it. It's all physical. This is especially true with adolescent males. These kinds of signals aren't as obvious in women.
PS: If you truly believe it is all physical, using an erection as a "gauge"...then what does that mean for a peodiphile? If someone only get an erection thinking of little boys (BUT NEVER ACTS UPON IT) then aren't you saying that is who they physically are? And then...that would mean they are just the same as someone who is gay?
NOTE: I'M NOT COMPARING GAY TO PEDOPHILE!!! I'm comparing the gauge of an erection to what physically attracts you. Which I TOTALLY disagree with.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Annee
It should be noted that "gayness" isn't like a switch that is flipped on or off in your head. It is actually considered a sliding scale ranging from totally gay to slightly gay to bisexual to bicurious to completely straight. It is also considered to slide to different parts of the scale as you get older. A straight person could get older and become gay or vice-versa.
"Gayness" is not considered a sliding scale.
Overall sexuality is considered a sliding scale.
If your orientation is attraction to same sex --- then you are homosexual. What type you are attracted to is not about the orientation.
It's no different then a hetero man being attracted to big boobs or an athletic body.
Yes. It's called the Kinsey Scale. I just posted a link to it in a previous post.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WeAreAWAKE
Umm...your choice of the words "physically oriented" sunk that part of your argument. Maybe mentally oriented would have worked better. Physically, men have one single unique organ and woman have one single unique organ that only work together. Without one, humans can't have children naturally. Therefore, if you say "physically oriented" you are saying that a man can only be attracted to a woman and visa versa.
No, not at all. What I was trying to say is that men's erections are what signal where their attractions lie, and mentality really has nothing to do with it. It's all physical. This is especially true with adolescent males. These kinds of signals aren't as obvious in women.
PS: If you truly believe it is all physical, using an erection as a "gauge"...then what does that mean for a peodiphile? If someone only get an erection thinking of little boys (BUT NEVER ACTS UPON IT) then aren't you saying that is who they physically are? And then...that would mean they are just the same as someone who is gay?
NOTE: I'M NOT COMPARING GAY TO PEDOPHILE!!! I'm comparing the gauge of an erection to what physically attracts you. Which I TOTALLY disagree with.
Pedophile is attraction to young children. It's not about gender.
And yes some researchers believe it is an orientation. That it is inherent in the body/brain makeup.
But, you can't have a victim. A child can not consent to sex.
Physically men and women are built to procreate together.
he other poster was correct. Sometimes the wind blows, sometimes you just wake up that way. Our "parts" seem to have a mind of their own sometimes
There are reports of hetrosexual men (prison for example) that when raped actually got an erection. It wasn't because they enjoyed it...it was a physical response regardless of what they like or prefer. Saying an erection is a sign of sexual preference is almost close to saying that if a woman gets raped but orgasms, she must have wanted it (which has happened). Which is OBVIOUSLY WRONG!
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If you truly believe it is all physical, using an erection as a "gauge"...then what does that mean for a peodiphile? If someone only get an erection thinking of little boys (BUT NEVER ACTS UPON IT) then aren't you saying that is who they physically are? And then...that would mean they are just the same as someone who is gay?
NOTE: I'M NOT COMPARING GAY TO PEDOPHILE!!!
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Annee
That's what I mean. It's not an either or thing. There are extremes and many options in between that people can be.
Kinsey, Storm, and Klein are only three of more than 200 scales to measure and describe sexual orientation. For example, there are scales that rate homosexual behaviors from 1 to 14, and measures for gender, masculinity, femininity, and transsexualism.
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
Interesting...I never knew about that. Still learning something new every day.
originally posted by: Seamrog
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
Interesting...I never knew about that. Still learning something new every day.
If you're just learning about Alfred Kinsey - be sure to do your research into his pedophilia.
In addition to most of his 'research' being widely viewed as garbage, his legacy is that of a perverted sex criminal.
What a freaking SHOCK that deviants use Kinsey to promote their agenda....SHOCKING!!!
originally posted by: Annee
So what.
Anything to derail the thread.
Kinsey did not report who his interview subjects were. And he would interview anyone to get information on all areas if sexuality.
Dr. Judith Reisman, Sex, Lies and Kinsey:
"Kinsey solicited and encouraged pedophiles, at home and abroad, to sexually violate from 317 to 2,035 infants and children for his alleged data on normal “child sexuality.” Many of the crimes against children (oral and anal sodomy, genital intercourse and manual abuse) committed for Kinsey’s research are quantified in his own graphs and charts.
For example, “Table 34” on page 180 of Kinsey’s “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” claims to be a “scientific” record of “multiple orgasm in pre-adolescent males.” Here, infants as young as five months were timed with a stopwatch for “orgasm” by Kinsey’s “technically trained” aides, with one four-year-old tested 24 consecutive hours for an alleged 26 “orgasms.” Sex educators, pedophiles and their advocates commonly quote these child “data” to prove children’s need for homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual satisfaction via “safe-sex” education. These data are also regularly used to “prove” children are sexual from birth.
Both of Kinsey’s most recent admiring biographers confessed he was a sadistic bi/homosexual, who seduced his male students and coerced his wife, his staff and the staff’s wives to perform for and with him in illegal pornographic films made in the family attic. Kinsey and his mates, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin and Paul Gebhard, had ‘front’ Marriages that concealed their strategies to supplant what they say as a narrow pro-creational Judeo-Christian era with a promiscuous ‘anything goes’ bi/gay pedophile paradise.
Her Kinsey Obsession Judith Reisman believes sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is responsible for all the cultural decay and sexual permissiveness that she sees. And she's got the ear of the Christian right and the White House.www.alternet.org...
Reisman’s obsession with Alfred Kinsey is presumably related to the molestation of her daughter, who later died from brain aneurysm. Her accusations against Kinsey lack any foundation in reality, however. Reisman has, for instance, accused Kinsey of being a fraud who employed and relied on pedophiles for his research, and even that he himself sexually abused children, an accusation that Kinsey biographer James H. Jones has dismissed as “groundless”. rationalwiki.org...
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Seamrog
I am aware of Dr.Reisman's opinion.
And that's all you have --- opinion.