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Kinsey Scale


0     Exclusively heterosexual-
Individuals who make no physicial contacts which result in erotic arousal or orgasm, and make no psychic responses to individuals of their own sex.

1     Predominantly heterosexual/only incidentally homosexual- Individuals who have only incidental homosexual contacts which have involved physical or psychic response, or incidental psychic response without physical contact.

2     Predominantly heterosexual but more than incidentally homosexual- individuals who have more than incidental homosexual experience, and/or if they respond rather definitely to homosexual stimuli.

3     Equally heterosexual and homosexual- individuals who are about equally homosexual and heterosexual in their overt experience and/or the their psychic reactions.

4     Predominantly homosexual but more than incidentally heterosexual- individuals who have more overt activity and/or psychic reactions in the homosexual, while still maintaining a fair amount of heterosexual activity and/or responding rather definitively to heterosexual contact.

5     Predominantly homosexual/only incidentally heterosexual- individuals who are almost entirely homosexual in their overt activities and/or reactions.

6     Exclusively homosexual- individuals who are exclusively homosexual, both in regard to their overt experience and in regard to their psychic reactions.

(for additional information see Kinsey, A. C, Pomeroy, W. B., and Martin, C. E. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 1948; Kinsey, A. C., Pomeroy, W. B., Martin. C. E., and Gebhard, P. H. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 1953.)