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[aesmael]

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

I scored an average of 3.24

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Heterosexual

Bisexual

Homosexual

Meaning

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:


0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more
than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally
heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

Summary

The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person's sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person's lifespan. While a person's number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like "homosexual", "heterosexual", and "bisexual" need not be the only three options available to us.

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This does not seem very dynamic or gridlike. And many of the options were compromises - there was no way of marking, frex, that I seldom find random people of any sex attractive. Plus the questions were so binary I had to do some redefinition before being able to answer.

Comments

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I met Fritz Klein (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fritz_Klein) at one of the first two Bisexual conferences they held in Sydney. He ran a workshop about those scales. Before the workshop I felt like I was in a community, because everyone there seemed to accept the general tag of "bisexual". But afterwards I felt more isolated.

In the workshop he asked people to sit closer to one side of the room  the more they were attracted to men sexually, and closer to the other side of the room, the more they were attracted to women sexually. After the shuffle I was the only one sitting in centre seat.

Much later I realised that in general, I wasn't that sexually attracted to either. And I think the scale (which is actually only an extension of the Kinsey Scale (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kinsey_scale) over time) skews results. Instead of:

Hetro ------- Bi ------- Mono

...you could have...

Bi ------- ----- ------- Mono

...where Monosexual is both Hetro- and Homo- sexual - fixed on one gender most of the time. It makes a difference on how one views things.