Word of the Gay: "Kinsey Scale"

The "Kinsey Scale" is a concept allowing one to more accurately define their sexuality. The scale ranges form 0 being exclusively heterosexual to 6 being exclusively homosexual, with anything in the middle being a degree of bisexuality. The Kinsey Reports used X to define someone who was asexual.

Free Bisexual, Pansexual, and Fluid Pride Icons

BiNet USA courtesy of the New York Area Bisexual Network is offering some free and uber-hip pride icons/graphics for the bisexual, pansexual, and sexually fluid identities just in time to kick off the LGBT pride season.

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Open Forum: Sexual Fluidity

Studies show that sexuality and gender are not black or white concepts. These aspects of identity formation lie along a continuum where on one end people strongly feel heterosexual or homosexual with regards to sexuality, and male or female with regards to gender identity.

Most people lean towards and identify more with their male or female gender and their heterosexual orientation. Whereas gay, bisexual, asexual, and transgender people have a mental notion of where they lie on the continuum and firmly establish that as their identity.

What about those who don't lie firmly on the continuum? Some people experience sexual fluidity, and this concept is forcing us to reconsider our ideas about sexuality and gender identity.

There are some people who experience more homosexual desires one day or for a period of time, and then reverse for a period of time to have more heterosexual desires. Are these people simply bisexual? Bisexuals have a consistent orientation of being attracted to both genders, but for the sexually fluid their identity seems to change frequently. Those who blur gender lines, are fluid as well, they may decide to embrace more of a female identity one day, and a male one the next.

Sexual fluidity is real, and there are probably people who will comment here who can attest to that experience. If we accept the notion that some people will be shifting, we need to ask ourselves why this is? If some people shift, we must accept that it is natural for some people to shift from gay to straight and straight to gay over the course of their lifetime.

What do you all make of sexual fluidity? All comments are welcome, but please ensure that nobody is being attacked for their respective identities.