Editing Kinsey scale (section)

==History ==
[[Alfred Kinsey]], the creator of the Kinsey scale, is known as "the father of the [[sexual revolution]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kinseyinstitute.org/about/history/index.php|title=Kinsey History|website=www.kinseyinstitute.org|access-date=2018-04-09}}</ref> The Kinsey scale was created in order to demonstrate that sexuality does not fit into two strict categories: homosexual and heterosexual. Instead, Kinsey believed that [[sexual fluidity|sexuality is fluid]] and subject to change over time.<ref name="Galupo 404–432">{{Cite journal|last=Galupo|first=M. Paz|date=June 2014|title=Sexual Minority Reflections on the Kinsey Scale and the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid: Conceptualization and Measurement|journal=Journal of Bisexuality|volume=14|issue=3–4|pages=404–432|doi=10.1080/15299716.2014.929553|s2cid=144321245}}</ref>

Rather than using sociocultural labels, Kinsey primarily used assessments of behavior in order to rate individuals on the scale.<ref name="Galupo 404–432"/> Kinsey's first rating scale had thirty categories that represented thirty different case studies, but his final scale has only seven categories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sexarchive.info/GESUND/ARCHIV/SEXOR4.HTM|title=Archive for Sexology|website=www.sexarchive.info|access-date=2018-04-13}}</ref> Over 8,000 interviews were conducted throughout his research.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bullough|first=Vern L.|date=January 2010|title=Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey report: Historical overview and lasting contributions|journal=The Journal of Sex Research|volume=35|issue=2|pages=127–131|doi=10.1080/00224499809551925}}</ref>

Introducing the scale, Kinsey wrote:

{{cquote|Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories... The living world is a [[Continuum (theory)|continuum]] in each and every one of its aspects.

While emphasizing the continuity of the gradations between exclusively heterosexual and exclusively homosexual histories, it has seemed desirable to develop some sort of classification which could be based on the relative amounts of heterosexual and homosexual experience or response in each history [...] An individual may be assigned a position on this scale, for each period in his life. [...] A seven-point scale comes nearer to showing the many gradations that actually exist.|Kinsey, et al. (1948). pp. 639, 656}}