How will I ever tell.... Oh, right. Everyone already knows.

[moominmuppet]

Actually, I'm linking to this partly because I think some folks might like to see the Klein Grid and how it's similar and different from the Kinsey scale, and this is a nifty and easy way to do so.
(ganked from dragonflycat

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

I scored an average of 3.14

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Heterosexual

Bisexual

Homosexual

Meaning

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:

0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

Summary

The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person's sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person's lifespan. While a person's number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like "homosexual", "heterosexual", and "bisexual" need not be the only three options available to us.

Take the quiz

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

So how does it differ from the Kinsey Scale? And why is it called a "grid" if it's one-dimensional?

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see there's a 2D grid in the actual questions.

[cjdoyle.livejournal.com]

Leaving a wake of devistated Bears, I scored an impressive .024 on this. (It's a strange sub-culture to live in where such an "obviously straight" response makes you feel kinda bad.)

[zodarzone.livejournal.com]

I don't need to take it. I know I'll end up in a similar spot. Sure I have no problem flirting with a guy as long as I know 1) he won't be offended and 2) he's straight. Other than that, I'm pretty damn straight.

[ajollypyruvate]

I'm not sure about the use of "homosexual" when applied to emotional attachments. Most of my friends are women, have always been women. I bond better with women. I am not, however, attracted to them in any sexual way. I just tend to find them more congenial social companions than men. Ergo, describing me as "more than incidentally homosexual" is false.

heh

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

I scored an average of 1.29

Meaning

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:

0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

Summary

The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person's sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person's lifespan. While a person's number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like "homosexual", "heterosexual", and "bisexual" need not be the only three options available to us.

Take the quiz (http://www.youthnetsouthampton.org.uk/breakout/kleingrid.php)


I think the lifestyle questions are weird though. I mean there have been times I hung out almost exclusively with black people that didn't make me part black on a scale.


The ideal part is a little odd too since who knows? I don't see myself as ever being in a homosexual relationship really but I never thought I'd live in Cleveland either and I have a really strong meteorological preference on that one. I'm willing to bet on the immediate future but long term? I can't think that far. I might be Hugh Beaumont or I might be living with four eskimos in the unfashionable end of Mars.

Re: heh

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I had about the same score (1.38, I think). This surprised me not at all.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

It trips my inner math geek to see that you scored pi. ;)

As for the grid itself, my biggest quibble...no allowance for the gender-variant individual. How do you class your relationships as hetero or homosexual if you don't feel yourself to be at one end or the other? But what if this group of female parents saw your relationship with them as heterosexual, while this other group saw the relationships you had as homosexual? How do you answer these questions?

But I did it anyhow.

[bec76.livejournal.com]

It trips my inner math geek to see that you scored pi.

Aaaaah good. I was afraid I was the only one who saw that.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

At first I just looked at it and noted it was close to 3, putting Sarah pretty firmly in the middle. Then I went back after reading the comments to see exactly what she scored (when I went to take the quiz myself, so I could compare my score), and was like "OMG, it's pi! How cool!"

Too much time in math and science classes...*laughs*

only slightly gay

[firinel.livejournal.com]

Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

I scored an average of 3.24

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Heterosexual

Bisexual

Homosexual

Meaning

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:

0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

Summary

The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person's sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person's lifespan. While a person's number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like "homosexual", "heterosexual", and "bisexual" need not be the only three options available to us.

Take the quiz