Today we are going to look at sexuality and what it means and how we determine or classify it. Bisexual YouTuber NotAdam helps us breakdown sexual identity. Check out the video below before we get into the details.

There was a time when “straight” rose above all in terms of sexuality and it was nearly impossible to believe that anybody was gay. The concept was taboo and never really brought into the light of day. Fast forward a couple of decades and now we talk about sexuality in broader and more fluid terms.

Over the years experts have decided to use a scale to determine where people sit with their sexual identity. One side of the scale is usually all gay while the other is straight. The most popular of these scales is called “The Kinsey Scale of Sexual Behavior” it came from a book written by sexologist Alfred Kinsey hence the name.

On his scale there were 6 points with 0 being completely straight and 6 being completely gay. However it was found that the Kinsey scale has some issues. One of them being that it is rated by sexual behavior rather than sexual attraction. Which means that it’s only based on what we see.

The scale also leads us to believe that everybody is sexually attracted to others at the same level when we know that there are groups like asexuals who are not attracted sexually to anybody.

Of course, as even stated in the video, asexuality should be in a scale entirely on its own because we also experience sexual attraction on different levels that need their own sliding scale.  Going from asexual to people who only experience romantic attraction to people who only experience it after they trust someone and then people who experience sexual attraction right away.

Somebody created a purple red scale that mashes those two scales (or the idea of them) together. It works with A-F depending on how your sexual attraction is and your orientation from 0-6 just like Kinsey did.

Of course everything is fluid and always changing but this will help give you insight into how you may be feeling. Stay up to date on our blog to find other posts about sexual identity and check our archives for past posts.