Ratings 1-5 broke the otherwise bisexual category down into the more varying degrees to which one may feel attracted to the same and opposite sex, and “X” was assigned to anyone who reported “no socio-sexual contacts or reactions” at the time of their interview. attracted to the opposite sex) while 6 denotes exclusively homosexual (i.e. How the Kinsey Scale worksĪlso known as the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, the Kinsey scale system of rating sexual orientation works on a seven-point scale, ranging from 0 to 6 with an additional category of “X.”Ġ denotes someone who is exclusively heterosexual (i.e. To bring the Kinsey scale and the groundbreaking Kinsey Institute research it bolstered to the masses, Kinsey and his colleagues conducted thousands of interviews, with Kinsey himself conducting over 8000 of them. Kinsey, then a biologist, was determined to make the study of sex a legitimate and respected science in its own right.
Prior to Kinsey, any study of sexuality was a medical venture.
