Catalogue Number
NMLH.2020.5.145
Object Name
Badge
Title
KINSEY 3.5 & COUNTING!
People
Ernest Hole; Alfred Kinsey
Description
Small, beige badge that reads in black "KINSEY 3.5 & COUNTING!"
The Kinsey Scale was developed in the late 1940s by Drs. Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and Clyde Martin as the âHeterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scaleâ based on interviews with thousands of people about their sexual behaviour and attractions. The seven-point scale goes from 0 (exclusively heterosexual, or straight) to 6 (exclusively homosexual, or gay). X indicates no sexual attraction, which may now be referred to as asexual or ace. In the middle of the scale, 3 indicates âequally heterosexual and homosexualâ, which may now be called bisexual or pansexual. The scale uses a binary idea of gender to assign sexualities so has fallen out of use more recently.
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