Jumpin said: The scale you guys are talking about is the Kinsey scale. Kinsey didn't theorize that all people were bisexual to a degree, but rather that many bisexual people were on a scale; some leaning more towards homosexuality and others leaning towards hetero sexuality.
Kinsey was also the guy who brought about the 1 in 10 people are gay theory; but was thought to have been incorrect because his test subjects were largely prisoners. This was one of many of his findings that were questioned; including the large number of people who masturbate (90% male and 40-70% female). Actually studies have found that Kinsey was fairly close to the mark; for people who masturbate, he actually low-balled it. The numbers other studies come up with today are much higher than Kinsey's; of course society could have changed, it used to be believed that tugging the general led to depleted sexual energies which caused impotence.
Alfred Kinsey, an interesting figure. There's a good movie about his life starring Liam Neeson. |
thats not the scale im talking about. i may be wrong, but i dont think farmland was talking about that 1 either cos he said "i think...". i've never heard of that Kinsey guy or his scale, so bear in mind that just cos that guy had a scale, it isnt automatically the one we're talking about
the way i see it, the terms "homosexuality", "heterosexuality", "bisexuality" etc are inappropriate, because sexuality isnt really a tick-box thing. sexuality is all there is. using terms like that, imo, kinda implies rules that, were those terms not to have ever existed, wouldn't matter. sex is sex, attraction is attraction. :D
sorry for the long post, im just trying to explain what i think about it, so you can see where my reasoning comes from inside my own brain.