Get comfortable for a long post, cuz this is something I have really strong feelings about. The intro defines the Kinsey Scale as “a scale for measuring human sexuality which determine whether a person gay, straight, or something in between.” Okay, worded for mass consumption, but also essentially true. Well, I opened it up and started reading. It’s probably watered down to media-consumable bits and there’s a high probability some parts of it are going to be just wrong. So I came across this post from a fellow student of mine: which leads to this Buzzfeed quiz called “Where do you fall on the Kinsey Scale?” : Īnd my first thought was, “great! The Kinsey Scale is on Buzzfeed as a quiz and thus means that more people are going to hear about it and start viewing sexuality as more of a continuum than a binary.” The second thought that fell close after was “gosh darn it, it’s on Buzzfeed.
