Oh hi! I guess I'm an E4, possibly an E3. Let's call it a E3.6.
Today I want to discuss the Purple-Red Scale of Sexuality that I was only
recently introduced to. This will include a bit about researcher Alfred Kinsey, and
then why sexuality matters in the first place. As a young person I believe that
there could only be straight and gay. Which really messed with my head. I knew I
felt weird because I didn't fit into either of those dualities. So then in
elementary school, in hushed tones while eating a peanut butter sandwich, I
learned about bisexuals. Looking back on it, it was probably an inappropriate
conversation the janitor was having with me. But this opened my mind that there was a
third option. I was the vanilla in the Neapolitan
sexuality spectrum. That's a book idea! Then in my early 20s, while at university,
I discovered the Kinsey Scale. The Kinsey Scale looks like this. It's seven columns,
from zero to six, that gradually transition between exclusively
heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. As you can see bisexuals take up the
vast majority of the chart, which probably initiated the belief that most
people are some level of bisexual. Now the Kinsey Scale was developed by Alfred
Kinsey. Classic narcissist. Kinsey is a pretty controversial figure now – well, I
mean he's always been controversial just for different reasons. He was born in
1894. He grew up poor and in a very strict religious household. But at a
young age he became fascinated with biology. His father pressured him to go
to school for engineering instead. However, after two years he knew that he
hated it, so against his father's wishes he got a degree in biology instead.
Kinsey would go on to become a professor of entomology (the study of insects) and
zoology (the study of zoos). Or animals if you want to be pedantic. Kinsey was also
bisexual which may be why he started to become fascinated by sex. People were
expected to be attracted to the opposite sex. Any sort of deviance from the norm
was not accepted. He wanted to know what attracted people to one another and how
they expressed that attraction. However, this is the 1930s. You don't just go
around saying that you're sometimes attracted to men.
You'd either lose funding, or find yourself in the middle of a group of
guys ready to pound you. And not in a good way.
Despite that, he was able to release two landmark studies published as Sexual
Behavior in the Human Male, in 1948. And Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, in
1953. They were both bestsellers. My favorite reaction has to be from Mae
West who said...
Now, originally Kinsey was criticized for even studying sex. It didn't seem
important. But it did eventually lead to the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s.
That in and of itself would make Kinsey a polarizing figure, depending on your
sexual politics. However in recent years Kinsey has also been heavily criticized
for his research methods. I mean the biggest one is that he had sex with
coworkers and filmed it in the attic of his own home. Many believe that Kinsey
became more obsessed with his own sexual desires than with the research. He also
interviewed a disproportionate number of prostitutes and prisoners in his study.
He also talked with a lot of homosexuals. Which isn't a bad thing, but that did
impact the results. There's also the fact that he went and observed orgasms in
young boys, so let's just say that he's probably a bit – as the kids would say –
problematic. So whether you love or hate how Kinsey conducted his research, I
think we can agree that the scale is a bit too simplistic. Especially when we
are now introduced to a wide spectrum of sexualities. The Kinsey Scale, for
instance, makes no room for asexuality. It's like trying to explain all the
different countries of the world by only using six categories. Can it be done. Sure.
But you're going to lose a lot of the nuance. So that's how we get to the
Purple-Red Scale. Someone who's better at Google searching could probably figure
out the person who created this. I'd love to give them proper credit, but I
couldn't seem to nail that down. It has seven columns, just like the Kinsey Scale,
but it also has six rows. Yeah! We get to do spreadsheets together. Remember kids,
IF statements are your friend. This scale inverts Kinsey by going from exclusively
homosexual on the left, to exclusively heterosexual on the right.
On the bottom we have those people who identify as asexual, and it ramps up to
those who are hypersexual, which is how I get to my E3.6. This also isn't
infallible. I don't know if any bisexual is completely 50/50 with their
attraction level to different genders. But that could be my own bias. It also
doesn't incorporate the person's gender identity, which I do realize would
essentially create a 3d chess set at this point. But I'd love to see someone
try! So we've now been discussing these two scales to explain people's
sexualities. Now it's my job to tell you why I think any of this is important. And
in a perfect world, it probably wouldn't be. Perhaps in a couple hundred years it
won't. People won't judge others based on who they fall in love with, and how they
have sex. That just isn't the case currently. By latching onto an identity
that makes sense to you, the world becomes just a little more clear to me.
It's like when I first got glasses. I was very young like three and my mom
would point to something in the distance. I would squint and couldn't see anything, and
my mum thought I was joking. And soon I just pretended I could see
what she was pointing at. When it was eventually understood that I needed
glasses, and I put them on for the first time my whole world changed. I could see
the leaves on the trees. I could see what they were pointing at in the distance. I
am fundamentally not a different person with or without glasses, but by
identifying that I need glasses to function, and to feel whole it allows me
to fulfill my potential. Sexualities are the exact same thing. You might find it
ridiculous that someone needs to list off something that sounds like a
detailed Starbucks order, but it is important to them that they tell you how
they are a gender fluid polyamorous demisexual ... Grande sized. I think that
we're in the next phase of the sexual revolution. Where consent is extremely
important, and where our assumptions about gender and sexualities are being
challenged. Which can be hard when you've lived your whole life being told things
are one way, and then you discover that's not true. It can be hard to adapt. Now we
have to figure out what it means to be purple, or red. And I have it on good
authority that it's not easy being green. And hey I struggle too. I'm
not perfect. I still have a bit of skepticism whenever I hear a new
sexuality that I hadn't heard before. But also I'm still trying to accept the
Berenstain Bears as a thing. And if you have no idea what that means, look up the
Mandela Effect. But, as always, I'm very interested to hear what you have to say.
How do you identify? Do you think it matters at all? Where do you fall on the
chart? Do you have proof it was ever the Berenstein Bears? Let me know down in the
comments below. I also need to shout out a couple of Patreon backers. They help
make videos like this one possible. Thank you so much for watching! My name is Kyle.
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