| Jump to Survey | Sexual orientation (S.O.) is not a discrete quality--human sexual preference is a continuous spectrum ranging from complete attraction to the opposite sex to complete attraction to one's own. Thus, in a sense, everyone is at least slightly bisexual.
You are talking about 1948 The Kinsey Scale...here is a bit of it:
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 emphasizing 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.
As E said, what is the point in questioning a concept as to 'why' someone loves instead of 'who' someone loves? The human being. We all, at some point I believe, find a match for ourselves without looking at traits, genders, orientations, preferences...etc....We just know that this person feel right (in our life) and resonates with our 'being'. Whether it is a friend or a spouse....the personality of the ones we love (in our lives) shines through above everything else. Kinda like two best friends. One is straight and the other one tells him that he is gay, which is uncomfortable for the 'straight' men. A response like, "Wow, I wish I couldn't like him for being gay but I can't...he's my best friend"...This is a state to aspire to. We are people (heart & souls) first....anything else seems very clinical.  |
