If you aren’t comfortable using the Kinsey Scale to describe yourself, you can use other terms. If you do use the Kinsey Scale to describe your sexual identity, you can identify with whatever number feels comfortable to you. It reduces bisexuality to a point between homosexuality and heterosexualityĪccording to the Kinsey Scale, when interest in a person of one gender increases, interest in a person of other decreases - as if they were two competing feelings and not experiences that are independent of each other.īisexuality is a sexual orientation in its own right. It doesn’t take anyone who isn’t exclusively masculine or exclusively feminine into account. Flattening them into a single number doesn’t account for those differences. Two people who are a 3 on the Kinsey Scale, for example, may have very different sexual histories, feelings, and behaviors. There are arguably infinite ways to experience sexual attraction. There’s a much wider diversity when it comes to sexual orientation. Many are uncomfortable identifying with (or being identified as) a number on a scale While there’s an “X” on the Kinsey scale to describe “no sociosexual contacts or reactions,” it doesn’t necessarily account for someone who’s had sexual relationships but is asexual.
This is known as a mixed or cross orientation. It’s possible to be sexually attracted to people of one gender and romantically attracted to people of another. It doesn’t account for differences between romantic and sexual orientation As the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University notes, the Kinsey Scale has numerous limitations.
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