# Where are you on the Kinsey Scale? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510 "2002-07-11T22:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maxxxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Maxxxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maxxxie)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/21 "2002-07-12T04:24:44Z")
Hrmmm 5, maybe 5.5? It’d be a 6 if it weren’t for those misguided encounters with boys in my teens 😉 Max ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/22 "2002-07-12T04:26:37Z")
0 to 1 IOW, falling though the cracks, as usual… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/23 "2002-07-12T04:35:21Z")
Another 0. Although with a little push I could become **i**. Completely sexless. If I believed in God I’d make a damn good priest. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/24 "2002-07-12T05:01:21Z")
A one. I’ve found men attractive before. Yes, in _that_ way. Might be a two if I weren’t a virgin. But I’m still firmly heterosexual, consistently finding women more attractive than men. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/25 "2002-07-12T05:22:26Z")
4.5 Would probably be a 5, if not for the French judge. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/26 "2002-07-12T05:45:00Z")
What? No one’s claiming to be a 6.9? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/27 "2002-07-12T06:11:39Z")
Also between a 2 and a 3… I’ve ‘passionately’ shared a kiss with females, and would definitely consider sex if the person was right… but most of my encounters have been with men. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/28 "2002-07-12T06:21:27Z")
1. Given the opportunity, probably a 2. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/29 "2002-07-12T07:41:25Z")
Two! Booyeah! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/30 "2002-07-12T07:59:55Z")
1, maybe 1.5 Affectionate hugs are no problem, but that’s really about it. ---
**Author:** ![DemonSpawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@DemonSpawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/31 "2002-07-12T10:40:48Z")
5 I have had 1 sexual encounter with a guy, my other partners have been female. I do find some men attractive but I have not yet found a guy I could fall in love with. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/32 "2002-07-12T11:06:12Z")
I consider myself a 6. Although I canoodled with women in my younger days, it was done strictly as an experiment to turn myself into a rip-roarin’ heterosexual. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy it one bit, and had to get through it by thinking about pro wrestlers. I’m a man-lovin man. ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/33 "2002-07-12T11:50:38Z")
0.5 I’d say - I simply like girls too much 🙂 But I’ve found men kinda attractive, but more in a “I wanna look like him” way. // blinx ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/34 "2002-07-12T13:23:08Z")
0 to 1. In theory, and maybe in group if the woman is the focus (and I was somehow talked into group). Maybe in group? Gaa! First I have to find one woman! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/35 "2002-07-12T13:24:52Z")
I don’t know where I fit in a scale that is so patently one-dimensional. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/36 "2002-07-12T13:26:31Z")
6 (Surprise, surprise) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/37 "2002-07-12T13:28:54Z")
2 ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/38 "2002-07-12T13:31:48Z")
I’d be a 3.5, I think. Not quite enough to be a 4, but close. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/39 "2002-07-12T13:56:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*I find certain female movie star/celebrity types very attractive or sexy, but not in a way that provokes sexual arousal, if that makes any sense. More like, “Wow she’s gorgeous! If I looked like that, I could do anything. I could be running the world in fifteen minutes. I wish I looked like her.” Like I can understand what the men are on about…but I haven’t a clue as to how they go from there, physically or emotionally. I find that interesting. > > Ahem. Strictly out of curiosity about sexuality, I have tried to have lesbian fantasies, but it seems to work only if I’m already aroused by thinking about men, and then the fantasy goes, like, _ahem_ like, we’re, _you_ know, _performing_ for the guy’s benefit. Ahem! \*\* I could have written this post! Guess that makes me a 0. ---
**Author:** ![Crispy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Crispy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crispy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510/40 "2002-07-12T14:02:24Z")
I guess i’d be a 3.5, but I agree with **Mangetout** (I always read that as Mange Trout). It’s a one dimensional scale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-kinsey-scale/118510.md?page=3)