Kinsey 5s - how do you identify?

Same here. It's funny how so many people believe that sexuality is a spectrum, that it's not entirely black and white - while still almost exclusively identifying as a 0 or 6 if they're gay or straight.

I identify as gay, but I also consider myself to be a 5 on the Kinsey scale. I'm not absolutely certain that I'll never have any feelings of attraction towards a woman, and I sometimes rarely do have "what if" moments or almost-crushes on women. I could easily ignore these feelings and brush them off, but introspection lead me to identify as a Kinsey 5. I've had relationships with women before, and while I acknowledge that the feelings I had were very dilute compared to the feelings I have towards men, I still got something out of it. It wasn't completely empty.

I feel like even if the scale went from 0-100 people would still blindly place themselves right at 0 or 100.

/r/lgbt Thread Parent