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Kinsey results and my thoughts

Discussion in 'Sexual Orientation' started by Brayden77, Jul 15, 2015.

  1. Brayden77

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    So, I have decided to get out of the welcome section and post a more thorough description of what has been going through my mind. I have known for a long time that I have had an attraction to girls. I was perfectly fine with that and I still find women to be very, very attractive and increasingly beautiful. However, I have also known from a very young age that I was different than my peers. Finally, I realized that I also have a very strong attraction to the same sex.

    I have kept that hidden due to reasons I may discuss elsewhere on the site, but only recently did I open myself up to new possibilities that I realized that my attraction to boys was much stronger than my attraction to girls. I was scared because I knew that I could be attracted to them both, and that really messed with my mind. I wanted to be able to undoubtedly say whether I was straight or whether gay, and I couldn't. I wished so much that I could tell my friends that I was gay, but I couldn't because I was being drawn toward a few girls in my graduating class. I wanted to deny that I could be bisexual, because then I would know what gender the person I fell in live with would be.

    I recently took the test for the Kinsey Scale (correct me if that is not the name of it), and I received my results. My results stated that I am predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual. This result feels...right, and although I feel as though my sexuality fluctuates on certain occasions, this description makes sense to me. It means I'm bisexual with a preference for men, right? I feel as though it describes how I feel pretty well, and actually, I feel a little better.

    Weirdly, I feel as though I'm on the right track to finding out more about myself. Maybe, given some time, I can come out to some of my close friends. Of course, I need some more time to think, but I am feeling much better than I was only a week ago.

    -Bray :slight_smile:
     
  2. fern

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    thats great :slight_smile: welcome.

    a lot of people i think take tests for the kinsey scale and come out thinking "hmm i feel like i should be a 3/4 but it says i'm 5"...it's nice that you feel good about our results. and from what you've described it seems to fit!
     
  3. suchconfusion

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    Hehe I'm happy for you. But yeah, that pretty much equates to you just being bisexual with a preference for men. I sort of like the kinsey scale but i don't because it accounts for having preference but it doesn't account for fluidity ofc. I mean, my preferences for each gender fluctuate as well but I always conclude I'm a 3 on the scale on average