RE: A Show of Gay Pride
April 2, 2013 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 3:50 pm by John V.)
(April 2, 2013 at 2:31 pm)festive1 Wrote: In case it hasn't been brought up yet, the Kinsey Scale. It's a scale of sexuality ranging from 0-6, much the same as the Dawkins scale, with an X option for asexuals.Someone posted a graphic with no comment so it wasn't discussed.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale#section_3
Not many people score a 0 (completely heterosexual) or a 6 (completely homosexual), rather most are somewhere in between.
This supports my view. Few people come out completely hetero or completely homo, and yet that's largely how sexuality has been discussed for some time now.
(April 2, 2013 at 2:34 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Well given I wasn't exactly raised in anything that could be considered a steady, consistent upbringing [foster child; had a lot of different temporarily adoptive families], probably not. I got a fairly diverse upbringing, so I can't point to any one thing shaping me as a person, definitely not sexually.I'm speaking of a completely different culture, point being that such analysis is more meaningful than anecdotes from within a single culture.