# Kinsey Scale Revisited/ Are you straight/gay/ bi? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507 "2010-09-12T14:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/41 "2010-09-13T16:44:56Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m definitely a 1, still. I have never had anything remotely resembling a sexual experience with another woman, but I have been attracted to some women, on occasion, even sexually. This, although I guess I’ve had a couple of very (VERY) minor drunken sexual experiences with women. I’ve definitely been attracted to a few women - I had a crush on a girl in college to the extent that I felt a pang of sharp disappointment when she mentioned her boyfriend in passing. But it’s hard to imagine really being in a relationship or having sex with a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/42 "2010-09-13T17:59:03Z")
I classify as a 2 (predominently straight, more than incidentally gay). Technically I consider myself bisexual; I’ve had girlfriends/longer term relationships with other women, but my longest term relationships have all been hetero. I discovered recently that my current level of sexual attraction to women tends to be philosophical rather than physical - I find women attractive in general, but don’t really have much interest in doing anything physical with another woman anymore. The only area where that changes is in the BDSM world; I am willing to bottom pretty much equally to a man or a woman. Of course, I’m married and consider myself monogomous in that I wouldn’t want to have physical relations with another person at this time, so it’s kind of moot. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/43 "2010-09-13T19:53:49Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > 20-year old male. I’m heterosexual. I’d say that I get grossed out by the idea of guys going at it but according to another thread that might make me gay! 😉 Funny - for some reason I imagined you as a 1. Don’t know why, just, you know, a quality. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/44 "2010-09-13T19:58:37Z")
I’m a woman and a 0. When I watch porn I can appreciate a nice pair of tits, but I have no desire to ever look at or touch someone else’s boobs in real life – or do anything else with a woman. I’ve spent a significant amount of time in the gay community, and have been hit on by (objectively) attractive women, but there has never been even a tiny bit of me that was interested (though it’s always flattering, so I’m as nice to those women as I am to men who I’m not interested in). I’ve never had a crush on another woman, been curious about kissing one, etc. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/45 "2010-09-13T20:17:10Z")
I’m a male and a 0, and expressed the following while out to eat with my girlfriend (who is bi) and two dear friends of ours (who are lesbians): “When I look at men and at women, I don’t understand why _all_ women aren’t lesbians. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be naked and as close as possible to a naked woman?” Given the audience, it is unsurprising that this got a pretty good reception. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/46 "2010-09-13T23:02:32Z")
When the voting is done, you can compare the results to my similar survey from back in 2003. I expect the numbers will be different, as in this current poll, people may anonymously report their Kinsey number. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=161783](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=161783) [http://www.skidmore.edu/~jbeachy/Qadgop.html](http://www.skidmore.edu/~jbeachy/Qadgop.html) > [@](#): > > Anyway, of the 168 males, > 68 (41%) reported 0 > 55 (33%) reported 1 > 21 (13%) reported 2 > 00 (00%) reported 3 > 02 (01%) reported 4 > 11 (07%) reported 5 > 11 (07%) reported 6 > > Of the 140 females, > 24 (17%) reported 0 > 58 (41%) reported 1 > 32 (23%) reported 2 > 09 (06%) reported 3 > 05 (04%) reported 4 > 11 (08%) reported 5 > 01 (01%) reported 6 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/47 "2010-09-13T23:15:41Z")
Oh heck, here’s a working link to that previous Kinsey survey: :smack: > **[Qadgop's Doper Sexuality study](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=161783)** > > OK, I’m an idiot. I promised waaay too much. I was gonna combine 3 threads surveying doper sexuality and pool the data. Guess what? That’s a HELL of a lot of work. And my employer seems to think I should not do such tasks while at work. And the... ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/48 "2010-09-14T03:16:56Z")
Male and a 1. All my relationships have been with women, but for a while I lived in a 3-way with my best friend and his girlfriend. It was usually him and her, or me and her. But one evening, it was all three of us. You can’t say you are a 0 if your dick has been in another mans mouth. We drifted apart after the girl moved away, though we have run into each other again over the years, and there is always that thought in the back of my mind - “You’ve sucked my cock”. Although, in fairness, the same thought is there whenever I meet an old girlfriend. What can I say…I’m male. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/49 "2010-09-14T10:08:03Z")
Does anyone have links to how these questions were actually asked? My experience is that I’ve only been attracted to people I think are girls–but, with the androgynous look, sometimes I’m wrong. But the revelation that I’m wrong creates an odd revulsion in me, and I lose the attraction. ---
**Author:** ![ssornMale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@ssornMale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ssornMale)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/50 "2013-05-19T03:18:08Z")
I voted (men/predominantly gay more than incidentally straight) I like men but I still do have attractions towards women. My first kiss and first love are both from women But now I am more than gay. I like men too now and I made out with atleast three. I found out me liking the experience from both gender, too destructive as it confuses me of my identity until now even after I took that kinsey scale test from the net search result I got somewhere. Both genders appeal to me if they have the looks and characteristics I like from either genders. But I like to focus on men now, mostly… Women, ever since my trauma/heartbreak, don’t appeal to me much, not unless they are super hot and beautiful. I don’t do with lesbians and real gays though. If that were the case why not settle for a man instead of a lesbian, and a girl instead of real gays. I meant full blown gays. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/51 "2013-05-19T04:30:38Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > However, I also do not have sex with 99.9999999999999999999999999% of men either. Wow do you realize that’s less than one man on more than 10 million billion Earths? ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507/52 "2013-05-20T07:26:31Z")
Totally hetero female. I can’t even see me experimenting. Blah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinsey-scale-revisited-are-you-straight-gay-bi/553507.md?page=2)