Editing Kinsey Reports (section)

=== 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
|}

<!--Anyone who has access to the reports please complete the findings for prevalence of Kinsey 0, 1, 2, and 4. The statistics below were taken from http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/ak-data.html -->
*'''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>