I have been seeing people put their "Kinsey Scale" number in posts and I was wondering if it was okay for my kid to take (like not too adult for her, etc.) so I went to a site and took an online test. My result? "F The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person." Now that is funny. I mean I am used to confusing real live people in conversations but making a computer scratch it's head is a new one for me.
The kinsey scale is not a test. It is just a scale. 0 being heterosexual, 3 being bisexual, 6 being homosexual. You can't test for sexuality, you can only discover your own. Any test will only be based on either arbitrary standards of masculinity or femininity, and thus is inherently flawed, or can only ask you one question, namely "What is your sexuality?". The answer to which you either know or don't.
I've seen other people with the Kinsey scale rating on their profile and had no idea what it was. I looked it out and when I took it I got a 6 or exclusively homosexual.
I just did a google search. The top two results of which one was the actual link to info about the Kinsey study and all the work that was done, books written etc. The other was a link to a site where someone had made a "test." It was rather funny. It had 10-12 true/false questions that the actual answer to most were somewhere in the middle. One of them was something like "I purposefully avoid looking at lesbian porn." Well, true/false that. I don't go in search of any porn. If I do a search and it comes up with links to porn I do not click them. If there are thumbnails showing and there is lesbian porn, gay porn, and hetero porn I do not go GROSS on the lesbian porn and refuse to look at only it. I just don't click on any of it. So how do I answer the question. True because I don't look at porn or false because it not the lesbian part of the porn I don't look at? ---------- Post added 27th Jan 2014 at 10:11 PM ---------- Kinsey Scale Test There is the link if you want it. Like I said it is rather silly. ---------- Post added 27th Jan 2014 at 10:14 PM ---------- Here is another one: The gender composition of an orgy would be irrelevant to my decision to participate. True/false Well, not ever tempted by actual participation in an orgy so it is irrelevant who would be there. So true but what does that do to the testing? Does it mean I am willing/wanting to participate in an orgy? LOL Hell, I over think things I know but these questions are quite maddening.
I took it and got non-sexual... I almost said "But I want to be sexual dangit!" out loud... That could've been awkward. :icon_eek:
took the test ounce said i was straight then changed my age to older and it said I was gay. Does not add up. LOL
I too got an F, I think the test is broken. I thought this question was odd. I am sexually submissive. I can't figure what that has to with the price of tea in china.
I finally took that test last night along with my friends (one who is bi and another who is heteroromantic and asexual). My bi friend got a 3, no matter how many times he took the test, and my heteroromantic friend got a 2. The first time I took it I got a 4, then I took it again without changing the age or anything, and got a 2. Conclusion: Sexuality is so confusing, even the Kinsey scale can't handle it. :lol:
lol I thought that question was badly worded as well, do they just assume everyone wants to participate in an orgy. I got a 6 btw, but don't take online tests seriously. They're meant for fun only.
Got a 6. Accurate, but that last question, along with most of the sex questions, are kinda difficult to describe in a binary, true-false manner.
Agreed! The Kinsey Scale isn't something that can be tested for. I mean, online tests DO exist but often they include things irrelevant to someone's sexuality (like the question about the orgy). Personally, I think having/taking the test is OK, as long as you're not using it to define yourself absolutely, but it can be handy for getting your head going in the right direction if you're struggling to figure out your sexuality. Also I have a problem with it asking "are you male or female?" because gender isn't binary. In any case, I nearly always score a 3 while taking it, which is fairly accurate if you only think of orientation in terms of homo-, hetero-, and bisexuality... but sometimes I've scored a 2 or a 5. I group in the Kinsey Scale with the Myers Briggs Personality Type... It can change over time, and sometimes even daily, as circumstances change in your life or depending on how you feel when you take it.
My daughter took it and she got to the a question something like "I cannot imagine having sexual relations with anyone." She said, "well right now yeah." (She's just 12) So she got non-sexual and said "that's not right at all." LOL When she changed the answer on that question she got bisexual which is how she identifies. Very odd "test." ---------- Post added 30th Jan 2014 at 06:36 PM ---------- I was really expecting a test more like some of the good online IQ test. I know they are not anywhere close to proper IQ testing but at least they are designed to get your close to properly tested. If you take several from different sources and get an average score you can kind of surmise the range of your IQ. This "test" was just crazy/silly. There is no way anything can be properly tested with a dozen poorly worded true/false questions. Still was fun to break it. LOL
