Editing Kinsey scale (section)

{{Short description|Scale for measuring sexual orientation}}
[[File:Kinsey Scale.svg|thumb|Kinsey scale of sexual responses, indicating degrees of [[sexual orientation]]]]
{{Sexual orientation}}

The '''Kinsey scale''', also called the '''Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale''',<ref name="kinsey">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/ak-hhscale.html|title=Kinsey's Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale|publisher=The [[Kinsey Institute]]|access-date=8 September 2011}}</ref> is used in research to describe a person's [[sexual orientation]] based on one's experience or response at a given time. The scale typically ranges from 0, meaning exclusively [[heterosexual]], to a 6, meaning exclusively [[homosexual]]. In both the male and female volumes of the ''[[Kinsey Reports]]'', an additional grade, listed as "X", indicated "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" ([[asexuality]]). The reports were first published in ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (1948)<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kinsey|first1=Alfred C. |last2=Pomeroy|first2=Wardell R.|last3=Martin|first3=Clyde E.|date=June 2003|title=Sexual Behavior in the Human Male|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=93|issue=6|pages=894–898|doi=10.2105/ajph.93.6.894|issn=0090-0036|pmc=1447861|pmid=12773346}}</ref> by [[Alfred Kinsey]], [[Wardell Pomeroy]], and others, and were also prominent in the complementary work ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'' (1953).<ref name="kinsey" />