Anyone else hate the Kinsey scale ?

Only you can measure your sexuality if your gay your gay if your straight your straight. And anything else in between...

 

I don't care if certain people need reassurance from the scale but I, personally, don't find it to be accurate in any sense c:

 

i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks that

 

I wouldn't say I HATE it, in that I don't think about it all that much, but yeah, I agree it's extremely inaccurate. Sexuality is something far too complex and vast to be represented by integers on a number line.

 

I feel the Kinsey Scale is like a stepping stone. It is useful for questioning people when they first try to understand what they're feeling. It gives them a number which they can think on and see how that applies for them. After that first initial step it tends to loose it's usefulness. It's definitely not a good measurement of sexuality (it would put me down as a 3, perfectly bisexual when I'm actually straight), but it's a good thing it exists so people can embark on a journey of self-discovery.

 

im a 6 strictly homosexual

 

I voted for "I hate it".But it is not like I hate it but it is really not accurate.. It is a very limited way to describe sexuality

 

It's very flawed and inaccurate but I don't care if people use it for reassurance.

 

Yeah, I hate it. Apart from my disagreement with the way it works, people also have this terrible tendency to treat it as a test. It isn't a fucking test. Nothing is going to tell you what your sexuality is.

 

The Kinsey Scale is a model, and models are, by nature, flawed (remember that if you want to date one). A model is a simplified, and therefore inaccurate, depiction of a hugely complex or difficult to grasp idea. If it were accurate it would be called the Kinsey 5-dimensional-parametric-equation, and that's about as easy to grasp as the fruit of Tantalus!

 

Meh... I don't really have an opinion of it. I consider myself a Kinsey 6, but I never say that. "Gay/lesbian" is simple enough for me.

It can be useful for bisexuals who prefer women/men, and I think it's helped prove that sexual orientation isn't always black or white, but I have no use for it.

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Also, I think it relies too much on porn, when people of all sexual orientations watch all different kinds of porn.

 

I think its very useful for breaking the rather narrow view that people can only be gay, lesbian, a square-cut 50/50 bisexual, or asexual. I see sexuality as a spectrum or scale. You have people on the ends who only have attraction to the same or opposite sex and then you have the people in between.

 

This view is good, but especially since you mention asexual, it really is more than one-dimensional. You can include more facets to make it a cartesian-type grid, or even a cubic representation for something else.

You said it best though that it raises awareness that sexuality isn't necessarily divided into boxes. *That is Kinsey's most important result.

 

It is still "boxy" but look at it this way:

-Lesbian/gay, bi or asexual - Only 3 boxes people have to fit into
-Kinsey Scale - 8 boxes for people to fit into (when including asexuals)

It is narrow yes, but I don't understand how you can see it as more restrictive than lesbian, gay, asexual etc.

To be honest if people want to use labels (I don't think its absolutely necessary to do so myself) they can always mix and match or use what fits them best. For example a "Kinsey 5 lesbian" or a "Kinsey 2 Bisexual", or whatever they are comfortable with (e.g. just gay if they like). It is a free choice.

 

I love it because it is an affirmation of who I am. I am not saying it is 100% right as I realize sexuality is fluid. It is a good scale overall.