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WHERE DO I FALL ON THE KSEY SLE? (GAY TT)
Instead of offerg people a choice between eher homosexual or heterosexual -- or even a choice between homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual -- provis a way of talkg about sexualy along terms of many possibili. Instead of one le wh plete homosexualy at one end and plete heterosexualy at the other, there are more than 200 sl people have veloped to fe sexualy. Aled Ksey and his rearch partners published Sexual Behavr the Human Male, the first landmark study to suggt that people didn’t f exclively to the tegori homosexual and heterosexual.
Ksey proposed a sle om zero to seven, wh zero beg exclively heterosexual and seven beg exclively homosexual:Only heterosexualMostly heterosexual, sometim homosexualMostly heterosexual, but more than sometim homosexualEqually heterosexual and homosexualMostly homosexual, but more than sometim heterosexualMostly homosexual, only sometim heterosexualOnly homosexualKsey also provid for an addnal tegory: X, no soc-sexual ntacts or Kle Sexual Orientatn GridIn 1978, Frz Kle published The Bisexual Optn. In , he outl a grid that asks people to rate seven aspects of sexual orientatn/inty om one to seven, wh one beg other sex/heterosexual only and seven beg same sex/homosexual only. The seven aspects are:Sexual attractnSexual behavrSexual fantasiEmotnal preferenceSocial preferenceHeterosexual/homosexual liftyleSelf intifitn People are asked to rate each of the aspects for three tegori: past, prent, and ial.
SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
He theorized that sexualy was better discsed wh rpect to x and y ax, wh the x axis rrpondg to homosexualy and the y to heterosexualy. Cly Mart veloped the Heterosexual-Homosexual Ratg Sle, also known as the “The Ksey Sle, ” orr to acunt for rearch fdgs that showed that people did not f to exclive heterosexual or homosexual tegori.