The Kinsey Scale is dated, yet remains popular in many contexts. Contrary to popular belief, Kinsey was not a behaviorist, but granted that sexuality is much broader than simply lived behavior. The Kinsey Scale does not address all possible sexual identities and does not purport to accommodate respondents who identify as non-binary. The Kinsey Scale is a widely used index and instrument for measuring heterosexual and homosexual behavior. The original research was provided by Dr. 4 and 5).The IDR-KST© is the property of IDR Labs International. For similar reasons, any research on sexuality would be better served by assessments that measure heterosexual and homosexual interest separately (e.g., refs.

3) among sexual behavior, attraction, identity, and fantasy, this suggests that Kinsey-type scales, which place heterosexuality and homosexuality at opposite ends of the same continuum, are ill suited for genetic research on sexuality. Indeed, Jabbour et al.’s ( 1) own data provide compelling evidence to the contrary: Genital arousal to male stimuli and to female stimuli are not significantly associated (multilevel model: γ = 0.09, P = 0.326) when controlling for genital arousal to neutral stimuli (and positively associated if the latter is not controlled γ = 0.83, P 0.9 figure 5C of ref. But there is no evidence that this is the case ( 5, 6). This forced trade-off would not be a problem if heterosexual and homosexual interest were, in reality, perfectly inversely related, and hence opposite ends of a single continuum. These two constructs are put in opposition to each other to yield a single number, such that a higher score on homosexual interest necessarily equates to a lower score on heterosexual interest. The main problem with the Kinsey scale is that it conflates two distinct constructs: degree of sexual attraction/behavior toward opposite-sex others and degree of sexual attraction/behavior toward same-sex others. do not meaningfully support the validity of the Kinsey scale, and we present analyses of Jabbour et al.’s data that reinforce the concerns raised by Ganna et al. We suggest that the findings from Jabbour et al. The authors conclude that their findings support the validity of the Kinsey scale ( 2), opposing concerns raised by Ganna et al. ( 1) provide evidence that some men are aroused by both men and women.

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