Men, where do you fall on the Kinsey scale of homosexual tendancies?

[BiloxiCouple]

Watched a movie/bio on a sex researcher from the 1940/50s called Kinsey. It was shown on HBO. He is also controversial and some of his research will not be accepted. But other parts of his research was interesting and that is what I am focusing on.

One question that he asked males was if they had any homosexual thoughts/tendencies. He based his scale on 1-6. One being a straight male with six being a homosexual. I haven't read his book, so I hopefully made a scale that would be close to the one he used.

Since submitting an answer to this poll is anonymous, I hope there are some interesting results.

[sexyshelby]

Very interesting poll.

I work with a gay man and he swears that all men have SOME gay tendencies. I don't necessarily agree with him and we agrue about this all the time.
But it will be interesting to see the results of this poll.

~SS

[Sweet_Candy]

Will come out and say I'm not turned on by same sex acts from either males or females. Sometimes wished I was but I'm not.

[good times]

Dito Sweet_Candy, I'm not even turned on by the thought of it.

[TNT]

Watched that movie too...very interesting and entertaining.

Here's a link that has Kinsey's scale...I think you did well aligning your's to match his Billy.

http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/research/ak-hhscale.html


Teresa

[Spoomonkey]

I've run into the same thing, Shelby, and it is quite annoying. I mean, I can say that I have no interest at all, but of course people can say that I am in denial and really do have tendencies and need an anonymous poll to tell the truth...

(As an aside - good poll, Biloxi... I am interested to see where it is going to, so I am not "dissing" your poll.)

But, the truth is, I would/could never carry through with anything male on male - nor can I "fantasize" about it without getting a little queasy. I'm just not that way. Nothing wrong with those who are. But why so many need for us straight guys to say we're bi to make them feel better, I'll never know...

Spoomonkey

PS - "Kinsey" was a VERY interesting movie...

[Chicup]

Originally Posted by Spoomonkey

I've run into the same thing, Shelby, and it is quite annoying. I mean, I can say that I have no interest at all, but of course people can say that I am in denial and really do have tendencies and need an anonymous poll to tell the truth...

(As an aside - good poll, Biloxi... I am interested to see where it is going to, so I am not "dissing" your poll.)

But, the truth is, I would/could never carry through with anything male on male - nor can I "fantasize" about it without getting a little queasy. I'm just not that way. Nothing wrong with those who are. But why so many need for us straight guys to say we're bi to make them feel better, I'll never know...

Spoomonkey

PS - "Kinsey" was a VERY interesting movie...

Dito

I'd enjoy sex with another male as much as I'd enjoy sex with a dog which is to say, not at all.

[jedi6942]

I find that I am interested in a broad (no pun intended) range of women. Big or small, short or tall, any size breast to maybe no teeth at all. (Though, I am espescially fond of large women.) But, I have no personal interest in males! Sure, I'm interested in what they do for my beautiful wife. Just not for me. And I am hard wired that way!

Anyone who says that all males have some degree of interest in other males sounds a lot like saying they want to justify or feel better about themselves. IMO.

[BiloxiCouple]

I watch too much TV. I can't remember the show, but the information/study went something like this:

They took two groups of male after an interview process which calculated their homosexual tendencies.

The 1st group was straight and against (for lack of better words) homosexuals.

The 2nd group was straight but not against homosexuals.

They made both groups watch a homosexual porn movie and measured their reactions to it. The 1st group said they had no reactions to it, while the measurements said they did. I believe the 2nd group had no reactions and the measurements confirmed it.

Maybe alot of us are in denial?

If you saw the show and my information is wrong please correct it. I don't even remember the show's name.

Thanks for the link TNT. Ya'll are great.

[BiloxiCouple]

Here is Kinsey's actual scale. Again, thanks TNT.

0- Exclusively heterosexual with no homosexual
1- Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2- Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3- Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4- Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5- Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6- Exclusively homosexual

Wait till my next interesting thread. I hope it works out to be a good one!!!!

I haven't seen a thread on this topic.

[Spoomonkey]

Originally Posted by BiloxiCouple

Maybe alot of us are in denial?

Perhaps...

Who knows...

This weekend, Mrs Spoomonkey and I went to a party held at the home of some friends. It is a swanky loft downtown. One of our friends is straight - but very metrosexual. One of our friends is gay. There were an even number of straight and gay people at the party.

Honestly, I was more uncomfortable with the number of straight singles, but that is a long story.

The gay group decided - at about midnight - to leave en mass and go dancing. The gay host came over to thank us for coming and wish us a good night. I gave him a hug and thanked him for having us. He kissed me on the lips.

It was not a sexual thing - anymore than it would have been sexual to give a quick peck to any female party hostess. It felt like the natural thing to do - so the quick peck didn't phase me in the least...

Nor did it "do anything for me".

I am very comfortable with my gay friends - as a few on this board who have hung out with me in my natural environment can attest. One of the lesser reasons that we get along is that they respect my sexuality. I am straight and they don't feel the need to convince me otherwise.

I am decidely not "against" homosexuality - I AM "against" the near militant "push" by some bi-males to try to convince straight males that they are hiding something. That, to me, sings of some needy desperation to justify something that they are internally uncomfortable with themselves.

Spoomonkey

[Paphian]

Originally Posted by BiloxiCouple

They took two groups of male after an interview process which calculated their homosexual tendencies.

The 1st group was straight and against (for lack of better words) homosexuals.

The 2nd group was straight but not against homosexuals.

They made both groups watch a homosexual porn movie and measured their reactions to it. The 1st group said they had no reactions to it, while the measurements said they did. I believe the 2nd group had no reactions and the measurements confirmed it.

You're right about this study, BiloxiCouple. Read the report on it on the web myself recently (or heard it on the radio, or both, who knows?). It confirmed the hypothesis that those men who have a strong negative reaction to homosexuals appear to be reacting out of fear/denial of their own urges, as you mentioned. That study gave me a pretty good laugh, as it's something that most of the gay friends I've had over the years have always alleged.

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I thought Kinsey was a pretty good film. It seemed to me that they needn't have spent as much time on his bisexuality as they did (it struck me as being thrown in more for shock value than being really relevant to the story). The film did do a pretty decent job in showing just how ignorant of (and even hostile to) the normality of many aspects of sexuality that people were, and in just how difficult it was for Kinsey to get taken seriously as a researcher and get and keep funding.

I can remember that even when I was a teenager (in the late 60s/early 70s) his books were still considered to be groundbreaking research and nearly the only thing available (if you could even get hold of a copy) that presented sexuality in a non-judgmental fashion. All of us who're out in "alternative sexuality" land--swingers, gays, lesbians, BDSM, whatever--owe Kinsey a huge debt.

[BiloxiCouple]

Pahpian - you explained it better than I did on that study. That is what I was trying to get to.

You're right about this study, BiloxiCouple. Read the report on it on the web myself recently (or heard it on the radio, or both, who knows?). It confirmed the hypothesis that those men who have a strong negative reaction to homosexuals appear to be reacting out of fear/denial of their own urges, as you mentioned. That study gave me a pretty good laugh, as it's something that most of the gay friends I've had over the years have always alleged.

[curiousagain]

Well, there was such a study but I have read that orginally it was actually on prison inmates. At the time it was the only group he could study. I imagine the percentage of bisexual men is greater in prison just due to the circumstances and also the more they told him what he wanted to hear, the longer before they had to leave the comfy interview room to go back to their cell or the yard. Scientifically, the study was fucked from the word go.

As Kinsey himself states, a random sample is impossible.

Without double blind, random samples, and reproducible results, any study is deemed worthless by the scientific community. But, they sell a lot of books and give people something to talk about.

[good times]

Originally Posted by Spoomonkey

The gay group decided - at about midnight - to leave en mass and go dancing. The gay host came over to thank us for coming and wish us a good night. I gave him a hug and thanked him for having us. He kissed me on the lips.

Watch out buddy, I wouldn't know from personal experiance, but I have been told, thats how it starts.