Editing Kinsey Reports (section)

==Findings==

===Sexual orientation===
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Parts of the Kinsey Reports regarding diversity in [[sexual orientation]]s are frequently used to support the common estimate of 10% for [[homosexuality]] in the general population. Instead of three categories ([[heterosexuality|heterosexual]], [[bisexuality|bisexual]] and [[homosexuality|homosexual]]), a seven-point [[Kinsey scale]] system was used.

The reports also state that nearly 46% of the male subjects had "reacted" sexually to persons of both sexes in the course of their adult lives, and 37% had at least one homosexual experience.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, p. 656</ref> 11.6% of white males (ages 20–35) were given a rating of 3 (about equal heterosexual and homosexual experience/response) throughout their adult lives.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Table 147, p. 651</ref> The study also reported that 10% of American males surveyed were "more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55" (in the 5 to 6 range on the Kinsey scale).<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, p. 651</ref>

Seven percent of single females (ages 20–35) and four percent of previously married females (ages 20–35) were given a rating of 3 (about equal heterosexual and homosexual experience/response) on Kinsey Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale for this period of their lives.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Table 142, p. 499</ref> 2 to 6% of females, aged 20–35, were more or less exclusively homosexual in experience/response,<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, p. 488</ref> and 1 to 3% of unmarried females aged 20–35 were exclusively homosexual in experience/response.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Table 142, p. 499, and p. 474</ref>

=== Kinsey scale ===
{{Main|Kinsey scale}}
The Kinsey scale is used to measure a person's overall balance of heterosexuality and homosexuality, and takes into account both sexual experience and psychosexual reactions. The scale ranges from 0 to 6, with 0 being completely heterosexual and 6 completely homosexual. An additional category, X, was mentioned to describe those who had "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions,"<ref>Kinsey Male volume, pages 638 and 647; Female volume, page 472.</ref> which has been cited by scholars to mean [[asexuality]].<ref name="Stange">{{cite book|author=Mary Zeiss Stange |author2=Carol K. Oyster |author3=Jane E. Sloan |title = Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World|isbn = 978-1-4129-7685-5|publisher=Sage Pubns|year=2011|page=158|access-date=December 17, 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOkPjFQoBj8C&pg=PA158}}</ref> The scale was first published in ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (1948) by Kinsey, [[Wardell Pomeroy]] and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'' (1953). Introducing the scale, Kinsey wrote:

{{Blockquote|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 in each and every one of its aspects.

While emphasising 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.<ref>Kinsey, et al. (1948). pp. 639, 656.</ref>}}

The scale is as follows:
{|class="wikitable"
!Rating
!style="text-align: left"|Description
|- style="background-color: #ccccff"
| style="text-align: center"|0
|Exclusively heterosexual
|- style="background-color: #ccddff"
| style="text-align: center"|1
|Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
|- style="background-color: #ccfffa"
| style="text-align: center"|2
|Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
|- style="background-color: #ccffcc"
| style="text-align: center"|3
|Equally heterosexual and homosexual 
|- style="background-color: #ccfffa"
| style="text-align: center"|4
|Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
|- style="background-color: #ccddff"
| style="text-align: center"|5
|Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
|- style="background-color: #ccccff"
| style="text-align: center"|6
|Exclusively homosexual
|- style="background-color: #fdfdfd"
| style="text-align: center"|X
|No socio-sexual contacts or reactions
|}

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*'''Men''': 11.6% of white males aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.<ref>Kinsey, et al. 1948. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Table 147, p. 651</ref>
*'''Women''': 7% of single females aged 20–35 and 4% of previously married females aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.<ref>Kinsey, et al. 1953. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Table 142, p. 499</ref> 2 to 6% of females, aged 20–35, were given a rating of 5<ref>Kinsey, et al. 1953. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, p. 488</ref> and 1 to 3% of unmarried females aged 20–35 were rated as 6.<ref>Kinsey, et al. 1953. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Table 142, p. 499, and p. 474</ref>

===Marital coitus===
The average frequency of marital sex reported by women was 2.8 times a week in the late teens, 2.2 times a week by age 30, and 1.0 times a week by age 50.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, p. 348-349, 351.</ref> Kinsey estimated that approximately 50% of all married males had [[extramarital sex]] at some time during their married lives.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, pp. 585, 587</ref> Among the sample, 26% of females had extramarital sex by their forties. Between 1 in 6 and 1 in 10 females from age 26 to 50 were engaged in extramarital sex.<ref>Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, p. 416</ref> However, Kinsey classified couples who have lived together for at least a year as "married", inflating the statistics for extra-marital sex.<ref name="Kinsey, Alfred p. 53">Kinsey, Alfred. ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'', p. 53.</ref><ref name="Jones, James H. 1997">Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton.</ref>

===Sadomasochism===
12% of females and 22% of males reported having an erotic response to a [[sadomasochism|sadomasochistic]] story.<ref name="sbhf677">Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, pp. 677-678</ref>

===Biting===
Responses to being bitten:<ref name="sbhf677"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="border-bottom:2px solid black;"
! Erotic Responses
! By Females
! By Males
|-
! Definite and/or frequent
| 26%
| 26%
|-
! Some response
| 29%
| 24%
|-
! Never
| 45%
| 50%
|- style="border-top:2px solid black;"
|+
! Number of cases
| 2200
| 567
|}
===Zoophilia===
The report estimated the amount of American citizens that have engaged in [[zoophilia]] to be approximately eight million.<ref name="Podberscek Beetz 2005 p. 24">{{cite book | last1=Podberscek | first1=A.L. | last2=Beetz | first2=A.M. | title=Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | series=Anthrozoos Series | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-85785-222-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-GbOvrbniQC&pg=PT24 | access-date=2022-11-30 | page=24}}</ref>