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Kinsey scale
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English
thumb|350px|upright|Kinsey scale of sexual responses, indicating degrees of sexual orientation.
Proper noun
A scale devised by Alfred Kinsey, used to measure a person's sexuality, ranging from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual), passing through different stages of bisexuality, including the 3 in the middle (bisexual, attracted to men and women equally). There is also an X option, for those exhibiting no sexual attraction (asexual).
Quotations
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Synonyms
Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale
Hypernyms
Heterosexual–homosexual continuum
Translations
Finnish: fi Kinseyn asteikko
German: de Kinsey-Skala f
Turkish: tr Kinsey skalası
See also
en eponyms
en LGBTQ