Of note is that there’s no ‘asexual’ choice here. How would you identify yourself to others? Like if you answered “they’d all definitely say they’re gay,” does that mean the calculation of your own sexuality would be pushed more towards the homosexual side of the scale because stereotypically gay people all hang out together? Personally, I like and answered “I’ve never really asked” when I took the quiz, because I view sexuality as something that a person will tell me if they think it’s important I know–if they don’t tell me, I don’t care. It seems like this is another question that asks about our socialized friend groups and then judges our own sexualities based on assumptions of stereotypes. *Okay, so this question only offers answer choices about the sexuality of the people with whom you socialize.
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Think about the people you socialize with most often. And this time there’s no oxytocin floating around to have us form strong emotional bonds. Maybe it’s the binary gender divide again, where we socialize with people of the sex/gender we’re not attracted to. Hmmm this could be the opposite of or a continuation of the previous question. Who do you feel most comfortable socializing with? If you have anything to help calm my confusion, please let me know!ĥ.
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I just get more confused with the next two questions. Say, I had many female friends up to high school so I must be attracted to males.
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I have no idea what type of algorithm they use to churn out your ‘sexuality results,’ but what do strong emotional bonds have to do with sexuality? Maybe it’s like you can form strong emotional bonds with those you’re sexually involved with because of the oxytocin that’s produced in your brain? Or maybe it’s the age-old thought that we can have strong friendships with people of the sex/gender to which we’re not attracted. With whom do you form strong emotional bonds? The question may be another way of beating the ‘who are you attracted to’ horse, but it also makes sense because while we’re socialized to believe we fit in a binary of homosexual or heterosexual, our subconscious mind in dreams and in spontaneous fantasies could tease out more of the in-between truth.Ĥ. I somewhat feel that this is one of those things Buzzfeed does to seem more racy–talking about sexual fantasies in the media. But it is in the original Kinsey Scale’s rating, so okay.ģ. Personally, I find the former two much more compelling when it comes to one’s sexuality because some people stay in the closet for a while, some have only had sexual experience with one sex/gender because that’s how life works out, etc., and I wouldn’t say those change one’s inherent sexuality. Technically the Kinsey Scale is supposed to measure thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Again, the possible answers you can choose from only reference the other person’s sex, not their gender identity.
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Makes sense, considering that’s what the scale is about. All the questions in this quiz specifically reference a person’s sex, not their gender. Of course inherently the basic Kinsey Scale has some flaws like no acknowledgement of asexuality (an ‘X’ in other versions) and little consideration for gender identity vs. Get comfortable for a long post, cuz this is something I have really strong feelings about. The intro defines the Kinsey Scale as “a scale for measuring human sexuality which determine whether a person gay, straight, or something in between.” Okay, worded for mass consumption, but also essentially true. Well, I opened it up and started reading. It’s probably watered down to media-consumable bits and there’s a high probability some parts of it are going to be just wrong. So I came across this post from a fellow student of mine: which leads to this Buzzfeed quiz called “Where do you fall on the Kinsey Scale?” : Īnd my first thought was, “great! The Kinsey Scale is on Buzzfeed as a quiz and thus means that more people are going to hear about it and start viewing sexuality as more of a continuum than a binary.” The second thought that fell close after was “gosh darn it, it’s on Buzzfeed.