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Contents 1 sexual orientation confirmation 2 NPOV? 3 Table 4 Table 5 Asexualism? 6 The meaning of this article is marred by the language 6.1 Incedentally?

[edit] sexual orientation confirmation

I'm slightly confused. I always believed the Kinsey Scale was a measure of sexual orientation. I looked on several websites and it said that the Kinsey Scale is a measure of sexual orientation. I'm not sure if this is correct so I did not want to edit the article, I was wondering if anyone could submit any feedback to me.--Mjp797 22:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I've changed the meaning. After reading as much as I can without being able to read the kinsey report itself, I'm convinced that "experience or response" includes "sexual orientation". If anyone changes this, please cite references! JohnFlux 23:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

Kinsey's work is controversial, but there's still confusion about orientation/preference/experience/gender being used seemingly interchangeably. Can someone add/cleanup? Iamvered 17:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

This is article is very clear and adheres strongly to the NPOV policy. It explicity mentions the difference between history and orientation. If you have a problem with Kinsey's quote, then you're going to have to dig the man up and talk to him yourself. I vote to immediately remove the NPOV warning. The page may be a stub, but in my opinion it's a good start.—Kbolino 21:03, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Kbolino's statement. Kinsey himself may be controversial, but Wikipedia doesn't avoid controversial or even bigoted people -- nor should it. This article is in need of some cleanup, but it's perfectly in compliance with NPOV. -Sean Hayford O'Leary 05:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table

This is unrelated to the complaint above but still, does it bother anyone else that heterossexual ranks are in blue and homossexual ranks are in red? Some people might argue that I might be looking to deep into the neutrality of colored depictions and it is precious paranoia, but bear with me here, red is used in many signs with negative conotation. Star Ghost 20:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Does anyone feel like changing the red to a colour with no connotation attatched? Green, perhaps? Monkeyfinger 15:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Or just put it all in grey. Does this look bad?

Rating	Description
0	Exclusively heterosexual
1	Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2	Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3	Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4	Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5	Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6	Exclusively homosexual

-- Steel 15:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, that green is better. -- Steel 15:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice job. Star Ghost 04:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I gave 0 and 6, 1 and 5, and 2 ve 4 the same colors. They represent the same thing in different orientations. And they still have their numbers, so there won't be any confusions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.186.196.139 (talk) 19:20, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table

Take a look at the table, I believe someone is playing silly buggers.

Yes, I noticed that too, have deleted the line in question ", --Wren-3^talk 22:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asexualism?

I noticed that asexualism isn't covered by the Kinsey scale. Perhaps it would be good if someone with more knowledge about Kinsey could explain in the article why it isn't covered and Kinsey's views on the subject. Thank you.--Jersey Devil 04:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know why Kinsey doesn't cover asexuality, but there is another system, similar to his, that does, called the Storms Sexuality Axis. Oddly, I can't find a Wikipedia article on this, however.--Anonymous

I don't think asexualism should be seventh, this would mean that hetrosexual people always think about sex and homosexual people never think about sex, if anything it should be 3rd as this is an average Fwed66 19:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

This doesn't seek to imply that at the 'homosexual' end of the scale tends towards the asexual. It was given the non-numerary designator of 'X' so that persons would not construe that very thing! --Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.45.228 (talk) 06:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The meaning of this article is marred by the language

I read the entire article and had no idea how the Kinsey scale was formulated, only that it measures hetero/homosexuality. There should be a section elaborating on the process of how these results are obtained, rather than just saying "11% of men are a 3." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.102.148 (talk) 08:02, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incedentally?

What does that even mean? OrangeAipom (talk) 05:58, 24 May 2008 (UTC)