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From: alix@mit-hector.UUCP (Alix Vasilatos)
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Subject: Re: The Kinsey Distribution
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 19:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 19:48:47 1985
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From Joseph Chapman:

>Nevertheless, I think that the notion of some sort of linear
>progression from Kinsey 0 to Kinsey 6 is still artificial, because of
>the things it doesn't take into account.  The fantasy life of the mind,
>subconscious desire, romantic desire, and erotic desire are all
>distinct, (often achingly) real, and interconnected aspects of what we
>might consider to be the sexual being: how can these be combined into a
>single statistic?  

Of course I thought of this.  I just felt that Kinsey shouldn't be
left out in the beginnings of this sort of discussion.  Actually,
Anna Freud approached Kinsey's "linear progression" as something
which should only be applied to one's fantasies.  This has since been
shown to be unsupportable, by the number of declared homosexuals who
have fantasies about the opposite sex.  Of course, declared 
heterosexuals who have fantasies about the same sex are still 
accused of suppressed homosexuality.

I will always be in favor of allowing a person to be what she or 
he declares her or himself to be, especially if that choice is for
being something which makes them a member of a minority group,
brings them social grief, political grief, etc.  I would even go
so far as to applaud such a person.

By a wild twist of fate, I am heterosexually married and gay.
Both arrangements are quite happy, thank you.

Alix Vasilatos