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From: alix@mit-hector.UUCP (Alix Vasilatos)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Bisexuality
Message-ID: <116@mit-hector.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 13:39:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 13:39:31 1985
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Reply-To: alix@mit-athena.UUCP (Alix Vasilatos)
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"The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats.  Not all
things are black nor all things white.  It is a fundamental of 
taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories.
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force 
facts into separated pigeon-holes.  The living world is a con-
tinuum in each and every one of its aspects.  The sooner we
learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we 
shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex."

	-Alfred Kinsey, _Sexual_Behavior_in_the_Human Male_, 1948


The scale that Kinsey used:

0.  Exclusively hetersexual
1.  Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2.  Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3.  Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4.  Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5.  Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6.  Exclusively homosexual

I don't have the exact statistics that he collected, but as I recall
there was a bimodal distribution with the humps around 1,2 and 4,5.

This is old information.  I don't think making moral judgments about 
people on the basis of where they appear in the distribution makes sense. 

	"Hi, I'm gay."
	"Oh yeah, where do you fall in the Kinsey distribution?"
	"4 or 5, I guess."
	"That's not gay, that's bisexual.  Bisexuals can't be trusted."
	"B-b-b-b-ut..."
	"See ya later, traitor."

Alix Vasilatos