2010-12-01, 07:32 PM
IsaacGS Wrote:Besides all that, you're saying that it should be a spectrum when that's exactly what it is. look at the chart, it's a scale from 0% to 100%, with a numerical value assigned to certain ranges for the sake of simplicity. A spectrum with hundreds of parts isn't particularly useful to anyone. At least this way you can get some information about a person's typical behavior by their number. If the ranges are too narrow, then you'll have people jumping from category to category constantly. It's not as if a person is going to remain at a single exact percentage of bisexuality their entire life. Circumstances will cause it to vary somewhat, and a moderately sized range is going to allow you to see that variation.
Then again that whole post just sounds like it was more for you to try to prove something than to convey useful information to anyone else so replying is probably pointless at best. I'm not really interested in getting into a big debate either. I just don't want flowery language to confuse any random reader who stumbles onto that and takes it at face value.
Don't read too much into the definition of my word choice, but the context in which I use it: I said "spectrum," because, while the Kinsey Scale is indeed a spectrum, the use of the word here implies something more akin to the Visible Light Spectrum, a scale with ranges so narrow the colors ultimately blend moving from one to another as the frequency increases. You raise a good point that such a spectrum would be too impractical for human sexuality, as personal oscillations between degrees would make such a scale pointless. But in the end my point by choosing that phrase was to state my personal opinion in that I find the Kinsey Scale too rigid. Something in between the scale as it is now and the spectrum I just described would be more appropriate.
By the way, I'm not out to prove something. I'm not a genetics researcher with a grant to perform human sexuality researcher. I'm merely a curious intellectual proposing a hypothesis toward a natural occurrence on an open discussion board. But I'd wish you not degrading my post as "something other than useful information" when it's an opinion on a topic with no clear answer. As this is a place to, again, discuss such things, I would hope people reading this thread and others wouldn't look for answers, but ideas. My posts don't need to go through your surveillance for legitimacy.