Kinsey and Bisexuality - Page 9

€uroMeinke · 01-15-2005, 07:59 PM

I continue to be fascinated with Kinsey and his reasearh from the 40's. At the time Kinsey considered us all inherently bisexual, with our actual orientation being somewhere on a seven point continuum (0-6) from exclusively heterosexual(0) to exclusively homosexual(6).

Now from what I gather in his initial research he was focused on reported behavior and not necessarily with what "orientation" his subjects identified with.

It seems this notion has fallen by the wayside as contemporary cutlture on both ends of the continuum, prefer that people idenify as either exclusively gay or straight. Granted, seeing things in balck and white is much simpler than dealing with shades of grey, but what do you think of Kinsey's notion that we are intrinsicly bisexual?

01-15-2005, 07:59 PM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Kinsey and Bisexuality I continue to be fascinated with Kinsey and his reasearh from the 40's. At the time Kinsey considered us all inherently bisexual, with our actual orientation being somewhere on a seven point continuum (0-6) from exclusively heterosexual(0) to exclusively homosexual(6). Now from what I gather in his initial research he was focused on reported behavior and not necessarily with what "orientation" his subjects identified with. It seems this notion has fallen by the wayside as contemporary cutlture on both ends of the continuum, prefer that people idenify as either exclusively gay or straight. Granted, seeing things in balck and white is much simpler than dealing with shades of grey, but what do you think of Kinsey's notion that we are intrinsicly bisexual? __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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