Sexual Minority Reflections on the Kinsey Scale and the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid: Conceptualization and Measurement

Galupo, M. Paz; Mitchell, Renae C.; Grynkiewicz, Ashley; Davis, Kyle S.

doi:10.1080/15299716.2014.929553

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“…While the Kinsey scale is critiqued in terms of its original usage as well as its operationalization in ways that may question the utility of discrete categorizations of sexual identity (e.g. Galupo et al, 2014;Weinrich, 2014), there is strong correlation between 5, 7 and 9 point scales of sexual identity measurement that provides strong empirical evidence that these "mostly straights" are distinct from heterosexuals and bisexuals (see Savin-Willams & Vrangalova 2013).…”

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Identities and Identifications: Changes in Metropolitan Bisexual Men's Attitudes and Experiences

McCormack

Wignall

Anderson

2015

Journal of Bisexuality

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractDrawing on 90 interviews with men who identify as bisexual from London, Los Angeles and New York, this article examines how bisexual men from three different age cohorts remember first experiencing bisexuality, how they sexually identify today, and how this is changing with younger groups of men. By using an innovative recruitment strategy, the majority of participants are not affiliated with bisexual community groups or counseling services. Thus, it provides insight into how bisexuals outside of these specific institutional settings feel about their sexual identities. Findings support Savin-Williams's (2005) contention that sexual identities are becoming less central to the lives of younger generations,

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Identities and Identifications: Changes in Metropolitan Bisexual Men's Attitudes and Experiences

McCormack

Wignall

Anderson

2015

Journal of Bisexuality

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“…Rubin (2002) warned that social science disciplines have not been sufficiently reflexive in understanding their cultural positioning, particularly with respect to how sexual identity categories are structured and experienced in Western society. This is also true of how sexuality is measured in sexological research (Galupo et al 2014;Scherrer and Pfeffer 2017). Rubin (2002) cautioned against universalising any typology of sexual identity, and instead called for a richly empirical and contextualised approach to understanding sexual identity in society.…”

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Young men’s rationales for non-exclusive gay sexualities

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Savin‐Williams

2017

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Recent evidence suggests it is useful to distinguish sexual identities among young men at the gay end of the spectrum because of group differences between primarily gay, mostly gay and gay orientations on several assessed physiological, behavioural and self-report measures. However, little is known about individuals' rationales for choosing sexuality labels beyond traditional gay or bisexual categories. We addressed this issue by interviewing 24 young men with a non-exclusive gay orientation about their sexual desires and histories, drawing on both qualitative and numeric data. Undertaking an inductive analysis, we found four distinct rationales for identification with a sexual orientation label: sexual, romantic, intellectual and internalised homophobia. By examining what young men mean when they classify themselves as primarily gay, mostly gay or bisexual-leaning gay, this article provides data to understand these issues and proposes that greater focus should be placed on sexual identity for non-exclusive gay men. Although the sexual and affectional components of sexual orientation are meaningful, previous research has not sufficiently accounted for the importance of intellectual, cultural and romantic factors in non-exclusive sexual orientations. To address these issues, the use of in-depth interviews should be incorporated in future studies.

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“…This is true in popular discourse (Dean, 2011) and is inherent to the scientific measurement of sexual orientation (Galupo, Mitchell, Grynkiewicz, & Davis, 2014). The lead article in this issue powerfully demonstrates how this plays out behaviorally and shapes social communication.…”

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