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The Kinsey Studies

I learned a little bit about Kinsey in sociology classes, but would like an ELI5 explanation.
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I don't see why this should be NSFW, since sexuality is a legit field of study and all, but... (also, not ELI5, but too lazy to try and do that)

Dr. Kinsey wrote what is known as the "Kinsey Report," which is made up of two books, *Sexual Behavior in the Human Male* and *Sexual Behavior in the Human Female* about sixty years ago. In these, he extolled his findings which were extremely taboo at the time.

His subject of study was sexuality on various things: masturbation, sadomasochistic arousal, but more importantly (or at least what he's known for), sexual orientation. He proposed that sexual orientation wasn't limited to just 'gay/straight/bi'. Instead, there's a whole big spectrum of sexual orientation. Think of it as a sliding scale, with 0 being purely hetero and 6 being purely homo. Now, every time that you've had a sexually arousing homosexual thought or experience, you're knocked up the scale a bit. Every time you've had the same, but heterosexual, you're knocked down.

What was shocking is that a large majority didn't fit in the strictly hetero or strictly homo category. Most people fit in the middle somewhere. How they present themselves is an entirely different topic all together, however, which is why you don't see everyone putting "Interested in: Men and Women" on their Facebook profiles.