Editing Kinsey scale (section)

== Table of the scale ==
The Kinsey scale ranges from 0 for those interviewed who solely had desires for or sexual experiences with the opposite sex, to 6 for those who had exclusively same sex desires or experiences, and 1–5 for those who had varying levels of desire or experiences with both sexes, including "incidental" or "occasional" desire for sexual activity with the same sex. It did not reference whether they "identified" as heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual.<ref name="kinsey"/>

{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Rating
!style="text-align: left"|Description
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| style="text-align: center"|0
|Exclusively heterosexual
|- style="background:#cdf;"
| style="text-align: center"|1
|Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
|- style="background:#ccfffa;"
| style="text-align: center"|2
|Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| style="text-align: center"|3
|Equally heterosexual and homosexual
|- style="background:#ccfffa;"
| style="text-align: center"|4
|Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
|- style="background:#cdf;"
| style="text-align: center"|5
|Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| style="text-align: center"|6
|Exclusively homosexual
|- style="background:#fdfdfd;"
| style="text-align: center"|X
|No socio-sexual contacts or reactions
|}

Kinsey recognized that the seven categories of the scale could not fully capture every individual's sexuality. He wrote that "it should be recognized that the reality includes individuals of every intermediate type, lying in a continuum between the two extremes and between each and every category on the scale."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHWHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP3|title=Sexual Behavior in the Human Female|last1=Kinsey|first1=Alfred C.|last2=Pomeroy|first2=Wardell B.|last3=Martin|first3=Clyde E.|last4=Gebhard|first4=Paul H.|date=1998-05-22|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253019240|language=en}}</ref> Although sociologists [[Martin S. Weinberg]] and [[Colin J. Williams]] write that, in principle, people who rank anywhere from 1 to 5 could be considered [[bisexual]],<ref>{{cite book|author1=Weinberg, Martin S. |author2=Williams, Colin J. |author3=Pryor, Douglas W. |title=Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality |url=https://archive.org/details/dualattractionun00wein_268 |url-access=limited |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-19-509841-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dualattractionun00wein_268/page/n51 41]}}</ref> Kinsey disliked the use of the term ''bisexual'' to describe individuals who engage in sexual activity with both males and females, preferring to use ''bisexual'' in its original, biological sense as [[hermaphroditic]]; he stated, "Until it is demonstrated [that] taste in a sexual relation is dependent upon the individual containing within his anatomy both male and female structures, or male and female physiological capacities, it is unfortunate to call such individuals bisexual."<ref name="Stange"/>

Psychologist Jim McKnight writes that while the idea that bisexuality is a form of sexual orientation intermediate between homosexuality and heterosexuality is implicit in the Kinsey scale, that conception has been "severely challenged" since the publication of ''[[Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women]]'' (1978) by Weinberg and the psychologist [[Alan P. Bell]].<ref>McKnight, Jim. ''Straight Science: Homosexuality, Evolution and Adaptation''. Routledge, 1997, p. 33.</ref> Furthermore, although the additional X grade used to mean "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" is today described as [[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> psychologist [[Justin J. Lehmiller]] stated, "the Kinsey X classification emphasized a lack of sexual behavior, whereas the modern definition of asexuality emphasizes a lack of sexual attraction. As such, the Kinsey Scale may not be sufficient for accurate classification of asexuality."<ref name="Lehmiller">{{cite book|author=Justin J. Lehmiller|title=The Psychology of Human Sexuality|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=978-1119164708|page=250|date=2017|access-date=November 29, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ytk5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250}}</ref>