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Good catch on this old post 
PinkEye, on 21 October 2011 - 06:30 AM, said:
TheFaithfulStone, on 23 February 2006 - 09:50 AM, said:
For the record, the sexual proclivity spectrum is not neatly divded into two parts.
I wish I could find the graph (it was in my college Health text) that showed a six part bar graph. Basically it goes like this.
1 = 90% - Exclusively Hetero
2 = 4% - Mostly Hetero, accidental Homosexual contact.
3 = 3% - Largerly Hetero, some homo
4 = 2% - largely homo, some hetero
5 = 1% - mostly homo, accidental hetero
6 = >0% - exclusively homosexual (very, very few people)
So Buffy's theory that it's an effective "preserve the species" strategy has some merit. As population pressure increase, the scale slides more and more to the homosexual side, but never completely eliminates the breeding population. In otherwords, the graph can swing both ways.
I wish I could find the book, where I saw this, but I seem to have lost it.
TFS
I wish I could find the graph (it was in my college Health text) that showed a six part bar graph. Basically it goes like this.
1 = 90% - Exclusively Hetero
2 = 4% - Mostly Hetero, accidental Homosexual contact.
3 = 3% - Largerly Hetero, some homo
4 = 2% - largely homo, some hetero
5 = 1% - mostly homo, accidental hetero
6 = >0% - exclusively homosexual (very, very few people)
So Buffy's theory that it's an effective "preserve the species" strategy has some merit. As population pressure increase, the scale slides more and more to the homosexual side, but never completely eliminates the breeding population. In otherwords, the graph can swing both ways.
I wish I could find the book, where I saw this, but I seem to have lost it.
TFS
How is it that you have these numbers but not the source?
Unless I'm interpreting the data incorrectly (let me know if I am), I find the 0% exclusively homosexual line quite unbelievable. I'd like to know more about where this data came from. ...
My guess is that TheFaithfulStone was remembering a textbook reference to the Kinsey Scale introduced in Kinsey’s famous 1948 “report”. The scale actually has 8 values, including “X = asexual”, but given the uncertainty’s of memory, TFS’s recollection strikes me as pretty good.
His recollection of the numbers, however, seem badly skewed. According to Kinsey, 63% of males and 87% of females are “exclusively hererosexual”, meaning they have never engaged in same-sex contract resulting in organsm. About 4% of white males and 2-6% of females were found to be “exclusively homosexual”, having not had sex-to-orgasm with an opposite-sex partner. (source: this Kinsey Institute webpage)
I think it’s important, though, to understand Kinsey and other’s admonition that you can’t categorize people by “sexual orientation”, even on a continuum, the way we can by, say, blood type. We can only make statement about their sexual behavior at various points in their life histories. People may be exclusively hetero or homosexual for their entire lives, or only portions of their lives. Human sexuality is complicated!
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