Sexuality is a spectrum, so where do you fall? The Kinsey Scale was made to answer this very question. It transcends common, limiting sexual identity labels and instead, helps you find your exact position on the sexual spectrum.
Learn more about your own sexual identity, and you might find yourself feeling empowered, comforted, and more excited to explore your own desires. Ready to discover your Kinsey Scale Number? Click “Start quiz” now.
Warning: The Kinsey Scale uses the gender binary and as a result, excludes people that fall outside of it, like nonbinary people. At wikiHow, we support and celebrate people of all gender identities. If this quiz doesn't feel like a good fit for you, you may prefer one of our other Sexuality Quizzes.
Questions Overview
- Only to people of the opposite gender.
- Mainly to people of the opposite gender, but sometimes to people of my gender.
- Mainly to people of my gender, but sometimes to people of the opposite gender.
- Only to people of my gender.
- I would feel totally comfortable saying I’m straight.
- I would feel comfortable saying I’m bisexual.
- This question would stress me out. I might say bisexual, but I’m honestly not sure where I fall.
- I would feel comfortable saying that I’m exclusively gay.
- Desirable
- Interesting
- Tolerable
- Unappealing
- Desirable
- Interesting
- Tolerable
- Unappealing
- I strongly prefer the opposite gender.
- I prefer the opposite gender, but really enjoy both genders.
- I strongly prefer the same gender.
- I prefer the same gender, but really enjoy both genders.
- I fantasize about the opposite gender.
- I fantasize about my same gender.
- I fantasize about both genders equally.
- I fantasize about both genders, but probably not equally…
- My same gender.
- The opposite gender.
- I feel equally capable of bonding deeply with both genders.
- I bond deeply with both genders, but I have a preference for one.
- I feel much more comfortable socializing with my same gender.
- I prefer socializing with my gender, but I’m comfortable with both.
- I feel much more comfortable socializing with the opposite gender.
- I prefer socializing with the opposite gender, but I’m comfortable with both.
- Desirable
- Interesting
- Tolerable
- Unappealing
- Desirable
- Interesting
- Tolerable
- Unappealing
- I feel straight, but on super rare occasions, I experience confusing feelings for someone of my gender.
- I prefer the opposite gender, but sometimes I get feelings for people of my same gender.
- I’m never surprised by my feelings, because I’m open to dating anyone.
- I’m never surprised by my feelings, because I’ve only ever felt attracted to one gender.
- It was difficult to come out as gay. So when, on rare occasions, I’m attracted to the opposite gender instead, it’s confusing.
- I feel mainly gay, but I still regularly have feelings for the opposite gender. I wish there was a label for me…
- I think I’m in the middle of the spectrum, but I feel like people want me to “pick a side.”
- I’m rarely confused about my sexuality, because I’m exclusively attracted to one gender.
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The Kinsey Scale, Sexual Spectrum, & Gender Identity
What is the Kinsey Scale? In 1948, the Kinsey Scale was founded on an idea that was radical at the time: people weren’t exclusively gay or straight. Rather, sexuality existed on a spectrum, and a person could fall anywhere within that spectrum. This idea accounted for gender preference and also allowed for more individual sexual freedom; this meant that a person might spend their whole life dating one gender, but then decide to switch things up. The Kinsey Scale’s logic could account for this behavior, and in that way, it was normalized.
Limitations of The Kinsey Scale: Popular and evidentiary support for a “sexual spectrum” has only grown over the years, but other assumptions made by the Kinsey Scale have become outdated. Specifically, the Kinsey Scale relies on a gender binary—or, the idea that only two genders exist, male and female. Today, we recognize and celebrate a gender spectrum, which means that a person’s gender identity can exist anywhere outside of those two specific categories.
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but here are some key terms to help you get acquainted with the gender spectrum.
Agender: not identifying with any particular gender
Androgynous: presenting both masculine and feminine traits; or, presenting neither masculine nor feminine traits
Cisgender: identifying with the gender with which a person was assigned at birth
Gender Expansive: a term to describe an approach to gender identity that accounts for more complexity and flexibility than the gender binary
Gender Expression: an expression of gender that’s external—either in looks, behaviors, clothes, speech, etc.
Gender Fluid: an experience of gender that allows room to change over time; or perhaps, isn’t rooted in one specific gender identity
Gender Identity: a gender experience with which a person identifies internally (or, which matches their internal experience)
Nonbinary: a person who doesn’t identify with either of the genders described by the gender binary
Transgender: a person whose gender identity is different from that which they were assigned at birth
Want to learn more?
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